Almost all over India, the institution of marriage is considered sacred regardless of the rising general trend among youngsters to marry out of personal choice. Most families still follow the tradition of arranged marriages. Such marriage alliances are often fixed through relatives, friends and associates who approach parents of prospective brides or grooms with eligible matches. But the choices are few.

That is where newspapers are increasingly playing an important role with their reach across India. For instance, a Malayali family of Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, can very easily resort to booking bride wanted newspaper ads in Malayala Manorama which gives the advertiser access to all of Kerala. That is how booking matrimonial classified ads in newspapers has become so popular in India – particularly, Bride Wanted ads.

Today, nearly every Indian newspaper – local, regional or national – publishes Bride Wanted ads on special pages dedicated to matrimonial ads. The Times of India, in fact, brings out a free pull-out Matrimonials supplement to its Sunday edition which has itself become reading matter even with people with no interest in marriage. For the convenience of readers, such matrimonial pages have categories like religion, community, caste, language and profession.

Matrimonial ads are of three kinds:

• Black and white text classified ads which are charged according to the number of words used, provided they are within five lines. Otherwise, additional words are proportionately charged extra. Also by paying extra, the advertiser can enhance the ads with ticks, bold letters and/or borders.
• Display classified ads cost more because they can get better responses since they can be made colourful and contain small visuals of symbols and such like.
• Display ads of any size and colour are also charged on a square centimetre basis.

To get the rates for newspaper advertising, it is advisable to contact a newspaper advertisement booking service. Better still would be an online facility of an advertising agency. One such is MyAdvtcorner which can be instantly contacted through the convenience of an office desk top or personal laptop.

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