Chandigarh: The pandemic may have thrown wedding planners out of business, but love in the time of familial opposition has given birth to a new enterprise called “marriage shops”.
Amid the surfeit of eloping couples approaching the Punjab and Haryana high court for protection in the face of threats from disapproving families, Chandigarh has seen marriage shops mushroom on its outskirts to provide everything that their grudging kin won’t.
From wedding rituals at a temple or gurdwara to “authentic” marriage certificates and budget shelters that promise security and privacy, there is nothing that these shops lining the approach road to the famous Mata Mansa Devi temple in Panchkula won’t provide for a fee.
In most cases, runaway couples want to hurriedly tie the knot, collect proof of the marriage and approach the high court with protection petitions. Over 100 such petitions have been filed daily during the Covid-19 pandemic, involving mostly lovelorn couples from Punjab and Haryana. While opposition from families is mostly on account of caste, creed and similarity of gotra (a social taboo in Haryana), the marriage shops have no boundaries when it comes to providing services to these couples.
TOI found the entire passage leading to the main entrance to the Mansa Devi temple dotted with boards inviting couples to solemnise their weddings with proper marriage certificates.
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