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India's Families Still Spend to say "I Do"

Our Correspondent
Dec 06, 2008
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India is in the swing of its busy marriage season, which lasts from November to March, and the Big Fat Indian Wedding hasn’t gone away, global financial meltdown, fears of job losses, new suspicions about real incomes of Indian bachelors abroad or the massacre in Mumbai.

In 2004, India’s wedding industry was estimated at Rs500 billion. In 2007, it had bu…

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