Marriage Fees Delhi

Marriage Fees Delhi 2026 — Transparent Pricing

We follow Delhi NCR's most transparent pricing. What we quote is final. No hidden charges. Complete fees breakdown below.

Marriage Packages

Muslim Nikah & Marriage Services

Government fees, notary charges and courier costs are at actual cost. We do not provide witnesses.

Add-On Services

Certificate Services Fees

Government Fees (Separate)

• SDM Registration Stamp Duty: ₹100-200
• Special Marriage Act Solemnisation Fee: ₹15
• MEA Apostille Govt Fee: ₹50 (per page)
• Embassy Fees: Country-wise
• Notary Charges: ₹100-200 per affidavit

Payment Methods

• UPI: GPay, PhonePe, Paytm
• Cash: At Mandir office
• Card: Credit/Debit
• NEFT/RTGS: Bank transfer
• EMI: For Premium plans

How These Prices Are Built — What a Fee Actually Pays For

Most marriage services in Delhi quote a number and leave you to guess what is behind it. That is how a ₹5,100 quote on the phone turns into ₹18,000 at the counter, once you are there, dressed, with your witnesses waiting and no good way to walk out. So before the tables, here is what our fees are actually made of.

A fee pays for four things. The professional time of whoever does the work — a pandit for a ceremony, an advocate for drafting and filing. The materials and infrastructure — the mandir, the havan samagri, the register, the printing. The administrative labour — preparing the application, the affidavits, the appointment, the follow-up, the collection. And the risk of the work being done properly rather than quickly, which sounds like marketing until you have seen a certificate rejected at a passport office over a spelling.

A fee does not pay for speed that is not legally available, outcomes that belong to a court, witnesses, or anybody's discretion at an office. If a price is presented to you as buying any of those four things, the price is not a price. It is a story.

Why our list is published. The same number is quoted to everybody, in writing, before any money changes hands. It does not move because of your caste, your religion, your urgency, your accent, the car you arrived in, or how worried you sounded on the phone. You are welcome to ask us for the total in writing on WhatsApp before you travel, and to hold us to it.

Government Fees and Our Fees Are Two Different Things

This confuses almost everybody, and the confusion is what lets some operators inflate a bill. Keep the two columns separate in your head.

Our fee is a professional charge for work we do. Government fees are amounts payable to the state, set by the state, which you would pay exactly the same if you did the entire thing yourself with no help from anyone. We do not mark them up and we do not keep them.

These are small amounts and that is the point. The government does not charge a large fee to register a marriage. If somebody tells you the office wants thousands of rupees to process your file, ask for the receipt, and ask which rule prescribes it.

The Late Registration Fee, Explained Properly

Couples who married years ago are often told frightening things about penalties, usually by people who want them to panic and pay. The actual position is mild.

Under the Delhi order governing registration, a marriage is expected to be registered within a set period. Register within the first window and no late fee arises. Register in the second sixty days and a fee of ₹500 applies. Register after that and the fee is ₹1,000. Confirm the current figures on the e-District portal before planning around them, because orders get amended.

Three things follow from this, and all three matter.

First, the fee does not keep rising. It is not a daily penalty and it does not compound. A marriage from 2009 attracts the same ₹1,000 as a marriage from 2023.

Second, registration stays possible however late, as long as both spouses are alive. There is no cut-off date after which the door closes and no "it is too late now, sir" that has any basis.

Third, and this is the one exception that is absolute: once a spouse has died, the marriage can no longer be registered. A certified copy of an existing record can still be obtained where registration happened during their lifetime, but a fresh registration cannot be done. If you have been meaning to register for years, that sentence is the reason to do it this month rather than next year.

What Is Not Included in Any Package

Published in full, because this is where surprises live.

We tell you which of these apply to you before you pay anything, not at the counter. If you want the number that actually leaves your bank account, ask for the all-in figure and we will build it.

The ₹5,100 vs ₹7,100 Decision — The Most Expensive Two Thousand Rupees on This Page

If you read nothing else here, read this. It is the single decision on which couples most often save two thousand rupees today and lose far more later.

₹5,100 buys the ceremony and the mandir certificate. You are validly married. Under Section 7 of the Hindu Marriage Act the marriage became complete and binding at the seventh step of saptapadi, and nothing can take that away.

₹7,100 buys the ceremony, the mandir certificate, and registration with the SDM, which produces the government marriage certificate.

The difference between them is not a difference in how married you are. It is a difference in what you can prove, to whom.

That is the whole argument. Two thousand rupees, once, against a list like that. Every month we meet couples who married at a mandir years ago, have believed since that they are registered, and find out otherwise at a passport counter with a flight booked. Fixing it later costs more than ₹2,000 and takes time they do not have.

When ₹5,100 alone is genuinely the right choice: you want the ceremony today and will register shortly afterwards; or the registration will be done in your own home district rather than in Delhi. Both are perfectly sensible. What is not sensible is choosing ₹5,100 because it is the smaller number and then never getting round to the rest.

When ₹15,000 for the Special Marriage Act Is Right, and When It Is Money Wasted

The Special Marriage Act package is our most expensive ordinary service, and for a large share of the people who ask for it by name, it is the wrong purchase.

It is the right spend when: one of you is not Hindu, Sikh, Jain or Buddhist, and neither of you wishes to convert — in which case it is the only clean civil route, and it is worth every rupee. Or when you positively want a purely civil marriage with no religious ceremony at all, which is a perfectly good reason. Or when a later requirement makes a Special Marriage Act certificate specifically preferable, which is worth an advocate's view on your facts.

It is money wasted when: both of you are Hindu, Sikh, Jain or Buddhist, you have no objection to a Vedic ceremony, and you asked for "court marriage" because that is the phrase everybody uses. In that situation the Arya Samaj ceremony plus Hindu Marriage Act registration gives you a valid marriage and a government certificate for ₹7,100 instead of ₹15,000, with the ceremony the same day instead of a sixty-day wait, and with no public notice displayed in your home district.

We tell people this even though it costs us ₹7,900 each time, because a couple who paid double for a slower and less private route is a couple who eventually works out that they were sold something.

One genuine caution, and it has nothing to do with price: a marriage under the Special Marriage Act carries consequences in succession law, and for a member of an undivided family the marriage is deemed to effect severance from that family. If you have property or family-business interests in the picture, take an advocate's view before giving notice, not after. That is on our court marriage page in full.

The ₹56,000 Premium — What You Are Buying, and When Not To Buy It

This is our largest fee and the one we are most careful about, because it is bought by people who are frightened, and frightened people are easy to oversell.

What ₹56,000 covers: the full court marriage and all the documentation — ceremony where applicable, affidavits, registration, certificate — together with a protection petition drafted and filed before the High Court by an advocate, and follow-up on the order once it is passed. It is one engagement rather than two, which matters because the petition depends on the marriage documents being correct and the timing of the marriage depends on when the petition is ready.

What it does not and cannot buy: a guaranteed outcome. A protection petition is decided by the Court. It is not a bodyguard, it is not a police vehicle outside your house, and nobody honest will promise you a particular order. What a protection order actually delivers is a direction that puts the local station on notice and creates accountability — which in most cases is the whole practical benefit, and a real one.

Ask for it if: there have been direct threats to either of you or to people helping you; a family member has already been to a police station about you; you have been followed, or your workplace or landlord has been contacted; there is a history of violence in either family in a comparable situation; or you have had to leave the city and cannot safely return.

Do not buy it if: your families are unhappy but nothing has actually happened. That is the situation of most inter-caste and love-marriage couples we meet, and for them the ₹7,100 combined package is the correct spend. Courts have themselves grown wary of protection petitions filed with no genuine threat, and several High Courts have dismissed such petitions with observations, so buying one "just in case" is not even neutral — it can be counterproductive.

If you describe your situation and we think ₹7,100 is all you need, that is what we will tell you. We would rather you spent the difference on your own life.

The NRI Pricing Ladder: ₹5,100 → ₹20,000 → ₹30,000 → ₹35,000

NRI pricing looks like a jumble until you see that each step is buying a further link in the same chain. Work out where your chain ends and buy up to there, not beyond.

Read the ₹35,000 line carefully. It buys priority handling of the steps that can be prioritised. It does not buy a shortened Special Marriage Act notice, because nothing does, and it does not buy speed from the MEA or from an embassy, because those are not ours to give. What it does buy is that nothing waits on us, that documents are prepared and chased continuously rather than in office-hour chunks, and that the sequence is planned backwards from your flight.

The commonest NRI mistake is not choosing the wrong tier. It is starting six weeks too late. The chain — certificate, state authentication, MEA apostille, embassy attestation, translation — is sequential, and the original travels through it. Budget six weeks. The full sequence is on our NRI marriage page.

Muslim Nikah Pricing

A separate list, because it is separate work with a separate route.

The same ₹5,100-vs-₹7,100 logic applies here too. A nikahnama proves the nikah; the government certificate is what a passport office, a bank, an insurer or an embassy will act on. An Urdu nikahnama without a certified translation is a recurring obstacle. If the marriage will ever meet an institution, register it.

Doing It Yourself: What It Costs, and What It Costs You

Nobody in this trade writes this section, so here it is. You can do most of this without us, and for some couples that is the right answer.

What you would pay the state. The statutory registration fee of ₹100–₹200, a solemnisation fee of ₹15 on the Special Marriage Act route, notary charges of ₹100–₹200 per affidavit, and the apostille government fee of about ₹50 per page if the certificate is going abroad. That is the whole of the government's interest in your wallet.

What you would spend instead of money. Working out which office has jurisdiction. Drafting affidavits that say the right things in the right form. Getting them on the correct stamp paper and sworn. Filing on the portal and getting the appointment. Taking two or three half-days off work for the counter, the appointment and whatever comes back for correction. Learning, usually the hard way, that a name must be spelled the same everywhere. Managing the apostille chain across three authorities in sequence.

When doing it yourself makes sense: a straightforward registration of a recent marriage, both of you local, documents already consistent, no deadline, and time on your hands. Plenty of couples do exactly this and it works.

When it does not: a deadline you cannot miss — a visa appointment, a joining date, a flight. Documents that do not agree with each other. A previous marriage. A foreign national. Anything going abroad. Family opposition. Or a marriage from years ago where proof has to be assembled. In those cases the fee is not buying convenience, it is buying a file that does not come back.

We would rather say this plainly than have someone pay ₹6,000 for something they could have done in an afternoon. If you describe your situation and it is genuinely simple, we will tell you so.

Six Ways Couples Get Overcharged in This Trade

One — the price that changes at the counter. ₹5,100 on the phone, ₹18,000 once you have arrived, dressed, with your witnesses waiting. The fix is free: get the total in writing on WhatsApp before you travel, including government fees, and ask what is not included.

Two — paying for speed that does not exist. Any offer to shorten the thirty-day Special Marriage Act notice. It is in the statute; nobody can do it. The money buys either nothing or a forgery, and a forged certificate leaves you far worse off than no certificate.

Three — paying for witnesses. A witness signs to say he was present and knows you. A stranger cannot honestly sign that, and it puts a defect in your marriage that surfaces in a succession dispute or at a consulate. We do not supply them at any price, and a service that does is transferring its risk to you for a fee.

Four — paying for an outcome that belongs to a court. "Police protection guaranteed." "Protection order in two days, guaranteed." Nobody can guarantee what a judge will do.

Five — being charged a "government processing fee" in thousands. Look at the government table above. The state's charges here are in hundreds. If someone says the office needs thousands, ask for the receipt and the rule.

Six — paying a middleman for the Ambedkar incentive scheme. That application is recommended through the District Magistrate or the State Social Welfare Department and goes to the Dr Ambedkar Foundation. We do not handle it, do not file it, and earn nothing from it. Anyone charging you a "processing fee" to guarantee it is charging for something they cannot guarantee. The details, stated honestly, are on our inter-caste marriage page.

Payment, Receipts and Refunds — In Plain Terms

How you can pay. UPI — GPay, PhonePe, Paytm. Cash at the mandir office. Credit or debit card. NEFT or RTGS bank transfer. EMI is available on the premium plans.

Ask for a receipt every time, for every payment, including cash, including a part payment. This is not a formality. A receipt is how you hold anybody to a quoted figure, and a service reluctant to give you one is telling you something.

What we will not take money for. A marriage where the age does not check out. A marriage where a previous one still subsists. A certificate for a ceremony that did not happen. Witnesses. A shortened statutory notice. A guaranteed court outcome. These are not negotiable at any price, and the refusal is the service.

If your situation changes before the work is done, tell us. Where work has not been performed, we will deal with it fairly rather than hiding behind a rule. Where government fees have already been paid to the government, those are gone — they are the state's, not ours.

The free part. The first conversation costs nothing. The document pre-check costs nothing. Being told that you need a ₹7,100 package rather than a ₹56,000 one costs nothing, and that advice is given before any money changes hands, not after.

Five Real Couples, With the Arithmetic Done

Composite examples, but each one is a situation we see weekly. This is what actually leaves your bank account.

Raj and Sneha — both Hindu, families know, want it done properly in one day. Arya Samaj + court marriage combined ₹7,100. Government statutory fee ₹100–₹200. Notary on affidavits, say ₹400. Own photographs, own transport. Total about ₹7,700. This is the commonest file we handle.

Aman and Pooja — both Hindu, different castes, families do not know, no threats. Same package, ₹7,100, plus ₹100–₹200 government fee and ₹400 notary. Caste changes nothing and costs nothing. They ask about the Premium and we tell them they do not need it. Total about ₹8,000, not ₹56,000.

Farhan and Ayesha — Muslim couple, nikah plus registration, and a visa application coming. Nikah with certificate ₹5,000, Muslim marriage registration ₹6,000, government fee ₹100–₹200, certified translation of the nikahnama ₹1,000. Later, apostille ₹4,500 plus the government fee when the visa file is ready. About ₹12,500 now, about ₹17,000 by the time the certificate is apostilled.

Vikram and Meera — he lives in Canada, she in Delhi, spouse visa with a fixed departure. NRI marriage plus MEA apostille ₹20,000, government fees about ₹600, translation if Canada's requirement calls for it. Started eight weeks before the flight, not two. About ₹21,000, and the thing that saved the application was the timeline, not the tier.

Karan and Jyoti — inter-caste, her brother has been to a police station and there have been direct threats. Premium ₹56,000 covering the court marriage, the documentation, the High Court protection petition and follow-up, plus government fees. This is the file the Premium exists for, and it is roughly one file in twenty. About ₹56,600.

Costs That Are Not Ours and Not the Government's

Three more that belong on an honest money page.

Embassy attestation is priced by the embassy concerned, varies enormously by country, and changes without notice. Our ₹3,500–₹7,000 range is handling; the embassy's own charge sits inside or on top of it depending on the country. Check the current requirement with that embassy rather than a list from two years ago.

Translation runs ₹500–₹1,000 per page and is needed more often than couples expect — foreign documents into English, an Urdu nikahnama, and sometimes the Indian certificate into the destination country's language.

Your own time. Half-days off work for the counter and the appointment, travel, and a night in Delhi if you are coming from Meerut, Rohtak or further. Couples who plan a same-day return trip and hit traffic or a missing paper end up making the journey twice, which costs more than the night would have.

Certificate Work: What Each Job Costs and Why They Differ

People use "duplicate", "correction" and "name change" as if they were the same errand. They are three different jobs with three different prices and three very different timelines.

The free way to make a duplicate cheap and fast: write down the registration number, the date of registration and the office, and keep that note somewhere that is not the same folder as the certificate. Couples who do this solve a lost certificate in a week. Couples who do not can spend months, because somebody has to find the entry before anyone can copy it.

The free way to avoid a correction entirely: read the affidavit before you sign it, and check four fields — your name, your father's name, the date of birth, and the date and place of the marriage. Ninety seconds. Those four fields are behind nearly every correction we are later asked to make.

When a Price Changes, It Changes Everywhere

A working note, because it is a promise rather than a policy.

When a fee or a service changes, it does not change on one page. It changes on the fees page, on the relevant service page, in the headline figures, in the structured data that search engines and AI assistants read, in the machine-readable summary of this site, and anywhere else the old number appeared. A website that quotes ₹15,000 in one place and ₹56,000 in another is not a pricing problem. It is a trust problem, and it is the sort of thing that makes a couple wonder what else on the page is out of date.

So if you ever find two different numbers for the same service anywhere on this site, tell us — on WhatsApp, on a call, however you like. We will fix it and we will thank you for it. The published number is the number.

Every Fee on One Screen

The complete list, sorted by what you pay, so you can find yourself on it.

Add-ons, all optional: pickup and drop ₹500–₹1,500 · photography ₹3,000–₹5,000 · cinematic video ₹8,000–₹15,000 · MEA apostille ₹4,500 · embassy attestation ₹3,500–₹7,000 · translation ₹500–₹1,000 per page.

Get Your Own Number, in Ten Minutes, Free

A price list is a starting point, not an answer. What you will actually pay depends on which route fits you, whether either of you was married before, whether your documents agree, whether the certificate is going abroad, and whether anything is going on at home.

Call +91 8376863962 and tell us your ages, your religions, your previous-marriage position, which documents you hold, where each of you actually lives, and any fixed deadline. We will give you the all-in figure — our fee, the government fees, and anything not included — and we will give it to you in writing if you want it.

And if the honest answer is a smaller package than the one you rang up to buy, that is the answer you will get.

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