- Weddings in India are big occasions - more so than in other cultures.
- With so much invested in the extravaganza.
- Wedding are big business in India - so families don't want any nasty surprises about a prospective spouse
- In 1987 she was one of only a handful of women in the field.Now she says,it is a popular job for a woman
- One reason pre-matrimonial investigations have grow in India is because increasingly marriages are being fixed on the internet
- Families want to be sure that the man or woman chosen for their daughter or son is genius and not a fraudster
- It's often a matter of reducing the alimony or getting the custody of a child, but the court wants solid evidence to prove the case
- A post-matrimonial investigation would usually be "much more" though,as you tend to have to gather more evidence
- But while gadgets have made her life easier, she says that nothing beats "old-fashioned intuition and hard work