Marriage Biodata Format for a Boy (With a Full Sample)
VivahAI Editorial · 11 August 2026 · 6 min read
A biodata for a prospective groom carries the same seven blocks as any other, with one difference in emphasis: families read the career section closely, and that is exactly where most pages overreach.
The fields, in order
| Block | Fields |
|---|---|
| Photo and name | One recent portrait; full name |
| Personal | Date of birth, age, height, religion and community, mother tongue, current city, marital status |
| Education | Highest degree, subject, institution |
| Career | Role, employer, city, and years of experience |
| About him | Three or four sentences in his own voice |
| Family | Parents' names and occupations, siblings, native place |
| Contact | One name, one number, and the relationship |
A filled sample
Name: Rohan Iyer Date of Birth: 2 February 1995 (Age 31) Height: 5'10" (178 cm) Religion / Community: Hindu, Iyer Mother Tongue: Tamil Current City: Bengaluru Marital Status: Never married Education: B.E. Mechanical, PSG Tech Coimbatore Occupation: Design Engineer, Bosch, Bengaluru (7 years) About Me: I design cooling systems, which is a long way of saying I spend my day thinking about heat. I run most mornings and I am slower than I was at twenty-five. I cook for my flatmates on Sundays, mostly my mother's recipes and mostly badly. I am close to my parents and would like to stay within reach of Coimbatore. Father: R. Iyer, bank manager (retired) Mother: Kamala Iyer, homemaker Siblings: One younger sister, final-year medical student Native Place: Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu Contact: Self — +91 98xxx xxxxx (evenings)
The career section, without the arms race
Two failure modes, and they are opposites. One is a designation nobody at the company would recognise. The other is a salary figure.
Overreaching
Managing Director & Chief Strategist, self-owned enterprise. Package: 24 LPA + variable. Owns 2BHK flat (Whitefield) and ancestral property.
Credible
Design Engineer, Bosch, Bengaluru (7 years). Settled in Bengaluru, family home in Coimbatore.
Families check, often through someone who works in the same industry, and being caught out on the small claim casts doubt on everything else on the page. The plain version reads as more impressive precisely because it is believable.
Whose number goes on it
For a groom's biodata it is increasingly his own, and that is fine. One name, one number, and a note about when he can actually be reached — two families playing phone tag is the most common way a promising match goes quiet.
For the layout, pick one of the twelve formats rather than fighting a Word document, and see the formatting guide for what to send and how.
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- How to Write the 'About Me' Section
Four sentences, written in your own voice, that say more than a page of adjectives. With before-and-after examples and the clichés worth deleting.
- Nine Mistakes That Get a Biodata Ignored
The errors that come up again and again — from three-page profiles and inconsistent ages to the illegal line some families still include without thinking.