Why we started this.
There was a gap, and everyone in it knew it. We built the thing we kept wishing existed.
People who genuinely want to get married have two options, and neither of them is good.
The matrimonial websites are open to anyone, verify nothing, and nobody stands behind what is on them. The rishta aunty knows people, which is the whole point of her, but she works on memory and hearsay, keeps no real record, and the same story reaches four families by Friday. Neither one is accountable to you if it goes wrong.
And the dating apps, whatever else they are, are not for this. People on them are not looking for a nikkah. Anyone who has tried to use one for a serious rishta already knows how that ends.
So in 2020 we started RishtaLink to be the third option: a proper marriage bureau, with a name attached to it. The model was never the problem. A person who knows both families and uses judgment is still the best matchmaking there is. What was missing was the seriousness around it. A real system. Records that exist. Photos that stay private because the software enforces it, not because someone promised. And somebody you can hold responsible.
6 years and more than a hundred completed rishtas later, that is still exactly what we do. A matchmaker reads every application in full. We meet you before we propose anyone. And we would rather bring you three proposals worth considering than three hundred that are not.
What that means in practice.
A person, every time
No application enters our pool unread. There is no algorithm making this decision, and there never has been.
Privacy that is enforced
Contact details and photographs are restricted at the database level, not hidden in an interface. They are shared with your consent or not at all.
Accountable to you
You know who is handling your search, and you can reach them. That is the part the informal route can never offer.