Pre-wedding Fun, Indian style

BBC News - India's 'wedding detectives' enjoy booming trade: "A growing number of Indians are hiring private detectives to check up on a prospective bride or groom's character, sexual history and finances before marriage.

Agencies say they've seen a huge rise in pre-matrimonial investigations to check a suitor's background, because more people are meeting online and families are less involved.

"It's not spying, we just wanted to know about my sister's boyfriend before she married him," says Anita (not her real name). She hired a private investigator to verify her now brother-in-law's background. Her sister met and fell in love with him at work, but Anita and her parents wanted to "authenticate" his family's status and finances before the wedding went ahead."

'via Blog this'