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A marriage biodata is a one-page document that introduces someone to a prospective partner's family. It sets out personal details, education and profession, family background and what the person is looking for in a match, so that both families can judge compatibility before they meet.
It is used across India in arranged and semi-arranged marriages, and it circulates widely: between relatives, through community networks, in WhatsApp groups and sometimes through marriage bureaus. That circulation is what shapes the conventions around it — a biodata has to be quick to read, easy to forward, and complete enough that it does not need a follow-up call to answer an obvious question.
It differs from a CV in what it is for. A CV argues for your suitability for a job; a biodata gives a family the facts they need to decide whether to take a proposal further. It is shorter, it includes family details a CV never would, and it is written in the third person as often as the first.
Almost every Indian marriage biodata covers the same six areas. Not all of them apply to everyone — the horoscope block is specific to Hindu families, and several sections are optional — but a biodata missing one of the first four will usually prompt a question.
In this maker, only the essentials are required: your name, date of birth, height, gender, marital status, religion or community, mother tongue, location, highest education, and your parents' names and occupations. Everything else is optional, and any section you leave entirely blank is omitted from the finished PDF rather than printed empty.
| Section | Required? | What goes in it |
|---|---|---|
| Personal details | Required | Name, date of birth, gender, height, marital status, religion or community, mother tongue, location. |
| Education & profession | Education required | Highest qualification, institution, profession, organisation, work location, annual income (optional). |
| Family | Parents' details required | Father's and mother's names and occupations, siblings, a short family background paragraph. |
| Horoscope | Optional | Time and place of birth, rashi, nakshatra, gotra, manglik. Omitted entirely if left blank. |
| Partner preferences | Optional | Age and height range, education, profession, location, diet, anything else that matters. |
| About & contact | Optional | A short personal note, hobbies, diet, and a phone number or email — often a parent's rather than your own. |
Write your name as it appears on official documents, since it may be used later for the marriage registration. Give your date of birth in full rather than only your age — age is calculated from it automatically, and families often want the date itself for horoscope matching.
Height is worth stating in the format your community uses. In most of India that is feet and inches; if your family uses centimetres, use those. Either is understood.
Specifics read as more credible than titles. "Software Engineer" says less than "Software Engineer, six years, at a payments company in Bengaluru" — the fields for institution, organisation and work location exist so the picture is concrete rather than abstract.
Income is optional and increasingly left out. If you include it, a band such as "12–15 LPA" communicates enough without inviting negotiation over a precise figure.
Parents' names and occupations are expected on almost every Indian biodata, and their absence is noticed. Siblings are usually listed briefly — "one younger sister, studying medicine" is enough.
The family background paragraph is where families look for values and origin. Two or three plain sentences about where the family is from and how it lives will do more than a paragraph of adjectives.
This section applies mainly to Hindu families, where kundli matching is often a step before families meet. It needs time of birth and place of birth to be useful at all — an astrologer can do nothing without both — alongside rashi, nakshatra, gotra and manglik status.
If it does not apply to you, leave the whole block empty and it will not appear in your biodata. Muslim, Sikh and Christian biodata do not carry a horoscope section.
This is the section people skip, and skipping it costs them. Stating an age range, an education level, a location and any dietary preference filters out mismatched proposals before they reach you, which is the entire purpose of writing them down.
Keep them honest but not so narrow that nobody qualifies. A range is more useful than a single number.
The only part of a biodata written in your own voice, and usually the weakest, because people fill it with adjectives anyone could claim. "Simple, caring and family-oriented" tells a reader nothing.
Specifics work better. What you do on a weekend, what you studied and why, what kind of household you grew up in, what you are looking forward to. Two or three honest sentences are enough.
Conventions differ by community — see the Hindu, Muslim, Sikh and Christian format guides.
Most problems with a biodata are not about writing quality. They are about the document being hard to use once it leaves your hands.
What belongs on a biodata differs between communities — which fields matter, which invocation to use, and which sections do not apply at all.