Coming to Delhi to Get Married? Shahdara, Anand Vihar and the Honest Answer to “Can We Marry Today?” (2026)

Quick answer: Two things about Shahdara. First, Shahdara is no longer a district. It was made one in 2012, but under the reorganisation effective 1 January 2026 Delhi has 13 districts and 39 sub-divisions, and Shahdara is now a sub-division of the North East district, with Karawal Nagar, Gokal Puri and Yamuna Vihar. Every page still saying “SDM Shahdara, Shahdara District” is out of date, including the earlier version of this one — and your existing certificate is completely unaffected. Second, and the reason most people are reading this: Anand Vihar ISBT and the railway terminal are here, and a very large share of the couples who call us have just stepped off a bus or a train from Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Uttarakhand or Jharkhand and want to know whether they can marry today. This guide answers that honestly — what is possible on the day you arrive, what is not, where an out-of-state couple can actually register, what to bring from home, and how not to be robbed at a bus stand. Arya Samaj marriage with registration: ₹7,100.

Last reviewed: 23 September 2026 · 39 min read

Shahdara at a Glance

Shahdara is old Delhi's eastern town — Shahdara proper, Vivek Vihar, Jhilmil, Dilshad Garden, Krishna Nagar, Vishwas Nagar, Surajmal Vihar, Karkardooma and Anand Vihar. It has the Red Line, the Blue and Pink lines at Anand Vihar and Karkardooma, the Karkardooma court complex, and two of the busiest arrival points in northern India: the Anand Vihar Inter-State Bus Terminal and the Anand Vihar Railway Terminal.

Those two buildings change what this page has to be. Every week, couples arrive here from Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Uttarakhand and Jharkhand, sometimes having left home that morning without telling anybody, carrying a bag and a phone and a great deal of fear. They have usually been told by somebody that a marriage can be arranged in Delhi in a day, and they have usually been told it by somebody who wants their money.

We help the couples the law allows us to help, and we say no clearly to the rest. What follows is the honest version: what can be done on the day you arrive, what cannot be done at any price, and how to get through the week without being cheated. If you are a Shahdara resident rather than a new arrival, this section is for you and everything else still applies.

Shahdara Is No Longer a District

Delhi had nine districts from the 1990s. In 2012 two more were created — Shahdara and South East — taking it to eleven. From 1 January 2026 the map was redrawn again into 13 districts and 39 sub-divisions, and in the new arrangement Shahdara is a sub-division of the North East district, alongside Karawal Nagar, Gokal Puri and Yamuna Vihar.

Do not try to work out your own office from a district table. Apply on the Delhi e-District portal, let the portal allot the office from the address you enter, and go where the acknowledgement slip says. In this belt, where Shahdara, Vivek Vihar, Dilshad Garden, Seemapuri and the Anand Vihar side run together, that is the only reliable answer — and it is free.

Which Office Registers Your Marriage

• The SDM / Registrar of Marriages registers a marriage under the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 or the Delhi (Compulsory Registration of Marriage) Order, 2014. This office issues the certificate everyone else acts on.
• The Marriage Officer handles the Special Marriage Act, 1954: notice, thirty-day public display, objections, solemnisation and certificate.
• The Arya Samaj mandir performs the wedding ceremony and issues its own certificate. That is not a government marriage certificate — and for a couple who will take it home to another state and produce it at a bank or a passport office, that distinction is the whole ball game.

Karkardooma Court Does Not Marry You

People say “court marriage” and then go to the Karkardooma court complex and stand in a corridor asking where the marriage counter is. There is no marriage counter.

A court does not perform or register marriages. Registration is done by the SDM or the Registrar of Marriages; a Special Marriage Act marriage is solemnised before the Marriage Officer. “Court marriage” is everyday shorthand for a civil registration, not a description of a building. Our Preet Vihar guide takes that misunderstanding apart properly.

What the Karkardooma complex does handle is the matrimonial litigation that comes before or after — divorce, maintenance, custody, protection orders. That is advocate work, done by an independent advocate in their own name. We are not a law firm and we do not appear anywhere.

One practical overlap: if either of you has a previous marriage, what registration needs is the certified copy of the final decree. A hearing date, an order sheet or a petition that has not reached the second motion is not a decree and no office will accept one.

“Can We Marry Today?” — the Honest Table

This is the question, so here is the answer before anything else. Read the row that matches you.

Arya Samaj Wedding Plus Registration

For two Hindus, Sikhs, Jains or Buddhists, this is the route that actually works quickly, and it is a real wedding, not a shortcut.

An Arya Samaj wedding is a Vedic ceremony performed by a pandit — havan, the vows, the pheras. The Arya Marriage Validation Act, 1937 recognises the validity of a marriage solemnised in that form between persons professing the Arya Samaj faith. The mandir issues its certificate the same day.

The step that produces the document your bank, your employer, a passport office or a panchayat back home will accept is registration under the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, which is a separate application with its own forms, fee and appointment.

What the day looks like for a couple who arrived this morning: documents checked; the ceremony at the mandir with your two witnesses; the mandir certificate; then the registration application, with the appointment as soon as the office gives one. Do not leave Delhi with only the mandir certificate. That is the single most common mistake this page exists to prevent.

Where an Out-of-State Couple Can Actually Register

This is the question nobody answers properly, and it is the one that decides whether your trip works.

Registration of a Hindu marriage is provided for under section 8 of the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, with the detail left to rules made by each state. Delhi's rules provide for registration by the Registrar in whose jurisdiction the marriage was solemnised, or in whose jurisdiction either party has been residing. The Delhi (Compulsory Registration of Marriage) Order, 2014 works on the same two footings.

Three honest qualifications, because we would rather you hear them from us than at a counter:

• The office decides on your papers. You will be asked to show the basis — the mandir certificate and photographs establishing that the ceremony happened in Delhi, and identity and address documents for both of you. Take everything.
• Address proof is still asked for, even where solemnisation is the basis. Your home-state Aadhaar is an address proof; it simply shows a home-state address, which is normal for a couple in your position and is not a disqualification.
• Procedures and the documents an office wants can differ, and they change. Confirm on the Delhi e-District portal and on your acknowledgement slip rather than on anybody's assurance, including a page written in September 2026.

The Special Marriage Act and the Thirty Days

If you are of different faiths and neither of you will convert, this is your route, and you need to plan for about two months.

1. Residence. At least one party must have resided in the district for 30 days before the notice is given. A couple who arrived yesterday cannot give notice today, and staying in a hotel, a dharamshala or a guest house does not become residence because you are sleeping there.
2. Notice in writing to the Marriage Officer of the district.
3. Public display for 30 days. A requirement of the Act, which nobody can lawfully shorten or hide.
4. Objections only on a ground the Act recognises — a party under age, a living spouse, a prohibited degree. Family disapproval is not a legal objection, and an angry objection delays you without defeating you.
5. Solemnisation before the Marriage Officer with three witnesses.
6. Certificate issued and signed.

We say this bluntly because of who reads this page: no emergency shortens the thirty days, and a couple who has left home cannot wait it out on a bus-stand budget without a plan. If the Special Marriage Act is genuinely your only lawful route, work out where you will both live for that month, what money you have, and who knows where you are, before you give notice. Our inter-religion marriage guide sets out the options, including what conversion does and does not do.

Nikah and the Delhi 2014 Order

A nikah is a valid marriage under Muslim personal law when the essentials are satisfied: an adult bride and groom, free consent, offer and acceptance in one sitting, witnesses, and mahr settled on the bride. The nikahnama records it.

For a government certificate the marriage is registered under the Delhi (Compulsory Registration of Marriage) Order, 2014: within 60 days, the next 60 on payment of ₹500, then a ₹1,000 penalty — and registration remains possible however late, while both spouses are alive. Our fee is ₹6,000. If your nikahnama is handwritten, in Urdu, worn or lost, our Seelampur guide deals with all of it.

What to Bring From Home

If you are reading this before you travel, this section is worth more to you than the rest of the page put together. Almost every couple we turn away is turned away for something on this list.

If You Left Without Your Documents

It happens, and it is not the end — but be realistic about the delay.

• Originals can be couriered. A sibling or a friend can send them; a day or two, and it is the cleanest route.
• A duplicate can be obtained from the issuing authority — a school certificate from the school, a birth certificate from the municipal authority in your home district. That is a home-state application, not a Delhi one, and it takes what it takes.
• Aadhaar can often be reprinted or downloaded where the linked mobile number is with you. Check on the official portal.
• What we will not do is arrange a document, accept a photograph in place of an original, or proceed on an affidavit that a document exists somewhere. We would rather you lose four days than carry a marriage record that collapses in five years.

Tell us on the first call exactly what you have. That call is free, and it is far better to be told on the phone that you need three more days than to find it out standing in front of a pandit.

Your Witnesses: Plan This Before You Travel

For a couple who has travelled, this is the hardest requirement, so think about it at home rather than at the mandir gate.

• Who qualifies: an adult who genuinely knows you, carries original photo identity and address proof, and is physically present. An Arya Samaj ceremony needs two; the Special Marriage Act needs three at solemnisation.
• Who you actually have: a cousin already working in Delhi; a friend from your town who lives here; an elder brother or a bhabhi who supports you; a colleague. Most couples, when they sit and think, find two people. Very few find them while standing in a queue.
• Ask them before you buy a ticket, tell them the date, and confirm the night before. A witness who turns up without an original ID sends everybody home.
• If somebody at a bus stand offers to “arrange witnesses”, walk away. A paid witness is a false statement to a public authority; it exposes you and them, and it leaves your marriage record open to challenge exactly when you need it most.

Our witness guide has the detail.

The Anand Vihar–Kaushambi Trap

This one catches people constantly and costs them a month.

Anand Vihar is in Delhi. Kaushambi is in Uttar Pradesh. They are minutes apart, the bus terminal and the railway terminal sit right on the line, and the cheap hotels and guest houses that couples are directed to are very often on the other side of it. So is Vaishali, so is much of Sahibabad.

• For the Special Marriage Act, this decides everything. The thirty days' residence must be in the district where you give notice. Thirty days spent in a Kaushambi hotel is not thirty days in a Delhi district — and it is not thirty days' residence anywhere, because a hotel stay is not residence at all.
• For registration generally, jurisdiction follows where the marriage was solemnised or where a party resides. Know which side of the line each of those is on.
• Ask before you book. “Is this address in Delhi or in UP?” is a fair question and any honest hotel will answer it.
• If one of you genuinely lives on the UP side, registering in Uttar Pradesh under its own rules may be the better route — see below, and our Karawal Nagar guide for Delhi–UP couples.

Where You Stay Is Not Your Residence

Say it plainly, because a great deal of money is taken on the opposite assumption: a hotel room, a dharamshala bed, a guest house or a friend's floor does not make you a resident of a district. Residence is where you actually live, and an office assessing a thirty-day residence claim knows the difference.

• We will not draft an affidavit claiming a residence you do not have, and we will not arrange an address for a fee. An address that cannot be stood behind is a false statement to a public authority, and it puts the whole marriage record at risk years later.
• If somebody offers to “make a local address” for you, understand what you are being sold: a document that works for one afternoon and fails for the rest of your life.
• If you genuinely move to Delhi — a rented room in your own name, a job, an Aadhaar update — that is residence, and it starts when it starts.
• If you cannot wait a month, and both of you are Hindu, Sikh, Jain or Buddhist, the Arya Samaj route is lawful, real and quick. That is the honest alternative, and it is the one we will offer you.

Touts at the Bus Stand and the Station

Anand Vihar ISBT, the railway terminal and the lanes around the court complex are worked by people who make a living from frightened couples. Some take money and vanish. Some produce a document that looks real and is not. A few file something in your name using details you never checked.

The rules that protect you are simple and they are not negotiable:

• Never hand your original documents to anybody who approaches you at a bus stand, a station, a court gate or a mandir gate. Originals stay with you and you produce them yourself.
• Never sign a blank form or blank stamp paper. Read what you sign even if somebody is impatient, and even if you are exhausted.
• Get a receipt for every rupee, from us or from anybody else. No receipt means no relationship and no remedy.
• Be suspicious of speed the law does not allow. Nobody can shorten the Special Marriage Act's thirty days.
• Do not follow anybody to a room to “meet the pandit”. Ask for the address, look it up, and go there yourselves.
• We will never ask you for an OTP, a UPI PIN, a card PIN, a CVV or a net banking password, and never to install a screen-sharing app or approve a payment request to receive money. Anybody doing that in our name is committing a fraud: stop, call +91 8376863962, and report it at cybercrime.gov.in or on 1930 — within the first hour if money has gone.

Money, Cash and Receipts

• Split your money. Not all of it in one pocket, one bag or one account. A couple who loses everything at once loses the trip.
• Keep enough to get home. Whatever else happens, hold back the fare for two return tickets.
• Pay for things that have a receipt. Ours separate our own charge from government charges, so you can see exactly where each rupee went.
• Do not pay a large sum in advance to anybody you met that morning.
• Government charges are government charges. The 2014 Order's fees and any stamp, notary or photograph costs are what the office actually charges, and they appear on your receipt at cost.
• We do not charge more because you are in a hurry or have travelled a long way. Our fees are the same for everybody. If somebody in this trade quotes you a higher figure because you are desperate, that tells you everything about them.

If You Have Left Home

Some of the couples who read this have left without telling anybody. We are not going to lecture you about that. What we will do is set out what actually helps, because we have watched a great many couples get this part wrong.

• Two consenting adults may marry. The Supreme Court has said so repeatedly. A family's disapproval is not a legal objection under the Special Marriage Act, and it is not a bar to an Arya Samaj wedding either.
• Tell one person you trust where you are. A friend, a cousin, a teacher — somebody outside the situation who would notice if you stopped answering. Doing this is not weakness; it is the single most protective thing on this list.
• Keep your documents on you, not in a bag you put down, and keep the photographs of them in your email so that losing the bag is an inconvenience rather than a disaster.
• Keep both phones charged and keep both numbers alive. Carry a cable and a power bank. A dead phone is how a couple gets separated.
• Protection is available. A couple who fears for their safety can approach the High Court for protection, and the police have a duty to act. The women's helpline is 181 and the emergency number is 112.
• Save the evidence. Threatening messages and calls, with dates. If it ever goes to a court, that is the file.
• Do not go back to collect things alone.

Our Kanjhawala guide carries a fuller safety plan written for exactly this situation.

What we do on our side: we do not call families, we do not confirm to any caller that you are our client, and we do not discuss one couple with another. If there is a particular number or name to be careful about, tell us at the start and it goes on your file. Our Privacy Policy sets this out in full.

If You Think You Are Being Followed

Rare, but it happens, and it is worth knowing what to do rather than improvising.

• Go somewhere public and staffed — a Metro station, a hospital, a bank, a busy shop. Not a lane, not a room, not a parked vehicle.
• Call 112. That is what it is for, and you do not need to have been hurt first.
• Do not get into a vehicle with anybody who says they will “sort it out” — including a relative who arrives suddenly and calmly.
• Tell the person you told earlier where you are, live, by message.
• Tell us if it affects an appointment. We will not discuss your matter with anybody who turns up asking, and we will not confirm that you have an appointment at all.

Age: the Line We Never Cross

Under the Prohibition of Child Marriage Act, 2006 the minimum age is 21 for the groom and 18 for the bride.

We are asked to bend this more often at this end of Delhi than anywhere, usually by a couple who have already travelled and sometimes with a document that has obviously been adjusted. The answer is no, in every case, and it is no whatever the fee, whatever the distance travelled and whatever the family situation. We also decline where a document appears altered.

This is not us being difficult. A marriage built on a false age can be challenged, the record can be cancelled, and everybody who helped create it is exposed — including the young couple, whose lives are the ones actually damaged. If you are waiting for a birthday, wait for it. Come back to us then, and we will do the whole thing properly and gladly.

If One of You Is Not Sure

We will say this once, plainly, because somebody needs to.

A marriage requires the free consent of both adults. Not the consent of a family, not the consent of somebody who has arranged the journey, and not the silence of a person who has been brought along. If one of you does not want this, or is frightened, or has been told they have no choice, the marriage should not happen today and we will not conduct it.

• We speak to both parties, separately, and we ask directly. If the answer is not a clear yes from each of you in your own words, we stop. That is not a formality we perform; it is the thing we actually do.
• If you are the person who is not sure, you are allowed to say so, and you are allowed to say it to us rather than to the person standing next to you. Ask to speak alone. You will not be argued with.
• The helplines exist for this too — 181 and 112 — and so does any police station.
• A marriage without free consent is open to challenge, and forcing one is an offence.

Registering in Your Home State Instead

Sometimes the better answer is not Delhi at all, and we will tell you so even though it means no booking for us.

The honest rule of thumb: if you are going to live in your home state, and it is safe to do it there, do it there — every future duplicate and correction will be a bus ride instead of a journey. If the reason you came to Delhi is that it is not safe at home, then Delhi is the right answer and the rest of this page is for you.

What you must not do is register the same marriage twice, in two states. One marriage, one registration. Two records of the same marriage create exactly the discrepancy that stops a passport or a visa later.

Taking the Certificate Home

You will go home eventually, and the certificate goes with you. A few things that save trouble later:

• A certificate issued in Delhi is valid everywhere in India. A bank in Muzaffarpur, a panchayat in Ballia and a passport office in Lucknow all accept it. Nobody has to “re-register” it at home, and anybody who says so is selling something.
• Photograph it and email it to both of you before you travel, and keep the original flat rather than folded into a wallet.
• Write down the registration number and the date of registration on a separate note kept somewhere else. If the certificate is ever lost, those two details turn a long search into a short application.
• Get two or three attested copies made while you are still near the office that issued it.
• Update your records at home: Aadhaar, bank KYC, ration card, and any nomination — EPF, gratuity, insurance — which may have lapsed on marriage. Our Seelampur guide covers the nomination list for families without an employer.
• If you will need it abroad — for a job or a spouse visa — read our apostille and visa guide before you apply for anything.

Registering a Marriage Held Years Ago

Also common here, and usually straightforward. What helps: the wedding card, ceremony photographs, a mandir, pandit or qazi certificate where obtainable, age and identity proof, current address proof, affidavits from both spouses, children's birth certificates and school records naming both parents, the ration card, and two witnesses who genuinely know you as a married couple.

Late registration attracts the 2014 Order's fees, paid to the government. Our fee is ₹6,000.

For Shahdara Residents

Most of this page is written for people who have just arrived. If you live in Shahdara, Vivek Vihar, Krishna Nagar, Dilshad Garden, Vishwas Nagar or Surajmal Vihar, the position is simpler:

• Jurisdiction is easy — you live here, so your address proof does the work, and the Special Marriage Act's thirty-day residence is already satisfied if you have been here a month.
• Your witnesses are local, which removes the hardest problem on this page.
• You can plan around a weekday morning rather than around a return ticket.
• Everything else applies — the documents, the age rule, the touts near the court, and the fact that a mandir certificate is not a government certificate.
• Our office is in this belt, near Karkardooma Road in Anand Vihar, so you can come and ask before you book anything. See getting here.

Witnesses

Repeating it here because it is the thing that most often stops a couple who has travelled: we do not provide witnesses, at any price, in any circumstances.

A witness must be an adult who genuinely knows you, carries original photo identity and address proof, and attends in person. Two for an Arya Samaj ceremony, witnesses at the SDM appointment, and three for solemnisation under the Special Marriage Act.

A borrowed or paid witness is a false statement to a public authority. It exposes you and the witness, and it leaves the marriage record open to challenge years later — and for a couple who will take this certificate home and build a life on it, that is a very bad trade for one afternoon's convenience.

Documents Checklist

At the Appointment

• Both parties in person; witnesses with original ID. No proxies, and no power of attorney for a marriage.
• Reach early and carry a full photocopy set as well as the originals.
• Answer what is asked, simply and truthfully. You are not being tested.
• Check the certificate before you leave the counter — both names and their exact spellings, both fathers' names, the date of marriage, the place, both dates of birth. A correction on the spot takes a minute; from another state it takes a journey and a ₹2,500 application.
• Photograph it, email it to both of you, and write the registration number and date on a separate note.

What It Costs

Government and other pass-through charges — registration and notice fees, the 2014 Order's ₹500 late fee and ₹1,000 penalty where they apply, stamp paper, notary, photographs — are separate, paid at the rate the office actually charges on the day, and shown separately on your receipt. We confirm one written figure before we begin and we do not add to it afterwards.

Our fees do not go up because you have travelled, because you are in a hurry, or because you look worried. Full position in our Terms & Conditions and Refund & Cancellation Policy.

Timeline

Getting Here From the ISBT or the Station

Our office is in this belt, near Karkardooma Road in Anand Vihar, and for most people arriving it is a short hop rather than a journey.

• From Anand Vihar ISBT: the Blue and Pink lines both serve Anand Vihar, and Karkardooma is one stop away on the Blue Line with a Pink Line interchange. An auto covers it in a few minutes outside peak hours.
• From Anand Vihar Railway Terminal: the terminal sits beside the ISBT, so the same routes apply. Walk to the Metro rather than taking the first vehicle offered outside the exit.
• From Shahdara, Dilshad Garden, Seemapuri or Vivek Vihar: the Red Line, changing as convenient.
• From Kashmere Gate ISBT (if your bus came in there instead): the Red Line runs straight across. Our Kotwali guide is written for that side of the city.
• Call before you set out. +91 8376863962, or WhatsApp — send photographs of your documents and we will tell you in minutes whether what you have will work, before you spend anything or travel anywhere. Full details on our contact page.

Go early in the day. Government offices work Monday to Friday and the useful window is the morning; a couple who arrives at four in the afternoon usually loses the day.

Common Mistakes

1. Travelling without original documents, relying on photographs on a phone.
2. Travelling without witnesses, assuming they can be arranged here. They cannot.
3. Believing a government certificate can be issued the same day by anybody who says so.
4. Believing the Special Marriage Act's thirty days can be shortened.
5. Booking a hotel in Kaushambi or Vaishali and thinking it is Delhi.
6. Thinking a hotel stay counts as residence.
7. Leaving Delhi with only the mandir certificate and no registration.
8. Handing originals to somebody met at a bus stand.
9. Paying a large sum in cash with no receipt.
10. Going to Karkardooma court expecting a marriage counter.
11. Registering the same marriage twice, here and at home.
12. Leaving the counter without reading the certificate — worse from another state, because fixing it means coming back.

Six Situations

1. The 6 a.m. bus from Gorakhpur. Both adults, both Hindu, originals in a shoulder bag, and a cousin working in Laxmi Nagar who agreed to be a witness a week earlier. Ceremony that afternoon, registration application the next morning, home on the night train with the mandir certificate and the registration acknowledgement. This is what a well-planned version looks like, and the planning was one phone call before they travelled.

2. No witnesses. A couple from Bihar who had been told witnesses would be “arranged”. We told them on the phone, before they spent anything more, that we do not provide witnesses and nor should anybody. They found a friend and his wife who lived in Dilshad Garden, and came back two days later.

3. The Kaushambi hotel. An interfaith couple who spent five weeks in a hotel across the boundary believing they were accruing thirty days' residence in Delhi. They had accrued nothing, in either state. It is the most expensive mistake on this page and it is invisible until an office says no.

4. The certificate that never existed. A couple who paid a man outside the station and received a printed certificate the same evening. It was not on any register. They discovered it three years later at a passport counter. We could register their marriage properly then — the marriage was real — but three years of records had been built on a document that did not exist.

5. The one we sent home. A groom of nineteen with an altered school certificate and an anxious family. We declined on the call and explained why. There is no version of this where we do it.

6. The one who wanted to speak alone. A couple where the bride went quiet when asked directly. We spoke to her separately, as we do with everybody, and she said she did not want to marry that day. We stopped. That is what the separate conversation is for, and it is not a formality.

Checklist Before You Buy a Ticket

1. Both of you above 21 and 18, with original age proof.
2. Original photo ID and address proof for both.
3. Two witnesses confirmed (three for the Special Marriage Act), with original ID, who will actually come.
4. Decree or death certificate, where an earlier marriage ended.
5. Photographs of every document on both phones and in both emails.
6. Passport photographs, several each.
7. Money split, and enough held back for two return fares.
8. One trusted person outside the situation who knows where you are.
9. A phone call to us first — free — so you know before you travel whether it will work.

One-Minute Summary

Shahdara is no longer a district — since 1 January 2026 it is a sub-division of the North East district, and every old certificate remains fully valid. If you have just arrived at Anand Vihar: an Arya Samaj ceremony can be same-day where both of you are eligible and you have your original documents and your own two witnesses — and because Delhi's rules allow registration where the marriage was solemnised, an out-of-state couple can register here. A Special Marriage Act marriage cannot be done quickly: thirty days' residence before notice, then thirty days' public notice, and a hotel stay is not residence. Anand Vihar is Delhi; Kaushambi is Uttar Pradesh. A court does not marry you, a mandir certificate is not a government certificate, and nobody at a bus stand can lawfully produce one the same evening. We never provide witnesses, we never touch an under-age marriage, we stop if either of you is not sure, and we never charge more because you are in a hurry. Arya Samaj marriage with registration ₹7,100.

How We Help

We do the documentation and the coordination; the ceremony is performed by the Arya Samaj pandit or the qazi, and anything needing an advocate goes to an independent advocate in their own name. We are not a law firm and we do not practise law. Our office is in this belt, near Karkardooma Road in Anand Vihar, a short hop from the ISBT and the railway terminal.

What that looks like for a couple who has just arrived:

• A free first call, before you spend anything. Send photographs of your documents on WhatsApp and we will tell you within minutes whether what you have will work, and what is missing — including when the answer is “not today” or “not us”.
• An honest route: the one the law actually allows you, not the one that costs the most.
• Documents and spellings checked before submission rather than at a counter.
• The ceremony arranged, the registration application prepared, and the appointment taken.
• One written figure before we start, government charges itemised separately, and a receipt for every rupee — with no surcharge for urgency or distance.
• Complete confidentiality: we do not call families, and we do not confirm to anybody who turns up or telephones that you are our client or that you have an appointment.

And the lines we do not cross, whoever is asking and however far they have come: we never provide witnesses; we never touch a marriage where either party is under age; we stop if either of you is not giving a clear, free yes in your own words; and we never alter, back-date or manufacture a document, an address or an affidavit.

Questions and Answers: Arriving in Delhi to Marry

Sources and Official References

Facts in this guide were checked against the following primary sources. Government procedures and office allocations change, so confirm current details on the official portal before applying.

• Delhi e-District – official online application portal
• Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 – section 8, registration
• Special Marriage Act, 1954
• Prohibition of Child Marriage Act, 2006
• Uttar Pradesh marriage registration (IGRSUP)
• Haryana marriage registration
• Delhi Police – citizen services and helplines
• Delhi Commission for Women – 181 helpline
• National Cyber Crime Reporting Portal
• UIDAI – Aadhaar services
• Ministry of External Affairs – apostille and attestation
• National Consumer Helpline

This guide is general information, not legal advice for your specific case. Call +91 8376863962 for advice on your situation.

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