Marriage Biodata Format for a Girl (With a Full Sample)
VivahAI Editorial · 11 August 2026 · 6 min read
This is the format most Indian families expect when a biodata arrives for a prospective bride: one page, seven blocks, in this order. Below it is a filled sample you can work straight from.
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 — or what she is studying |
| About her | Three or four sentences in her own voice |
| Family | Parents' names and occupations, siblings, native place |
| Contact | One name, one number, and the relationship |
Horoscope details — birth time, place, rashi, nakshatra, gotra — go between family and contact if your family uses them. If they do not, leave the block out entirely rather than showing empty fields.
A filled sample
Name: Ananya Deshmukh Date of Birth: 14 August 1998 (Age 27) Height: 5'4" (163 cm) Religion / Community: Hindu, Maratha Mother Tongue: Marathi Current City: Pune Marital Status: Never married Education: B.Tech, Computer Science, VNIT Nagpur Occupation: Software Engineer, TCS, Pune About Me: I write software for hospital systems — unglamorous work that occasionally saves somebody's afternoon. Most weekends I am in my grandmother's garden in Nagpur, or losing arguments about films to my sister. I'd like to meet someone who has their own thing going on and talks to me like an equal. Father: Suresh Deshmukh, civil engineer (retired) Mother: Vaishali Deshmukh, homemaker Siblings: One elder sister, married, in Bengaluru Native Place: Kolhapur, Maharashtra Contact: Father, Suresh Deshmukh — +91 98xxx xxxxx (after 6pm)
That is the whole page. Around 150 words, and it answers every question a family will ask at this stage.
Three things to leave out
You will have seen all three on other biodata. They are still worth deleting.
- Complexion. "Fair" and "wheatish" describe skin colour and predict nothing about a marriage. The photograph already shows what she looks like, and to a growing number of families the line itself is the red flag.
- Any mention of gifts, expectations or "as per status". That is a dowry demand however it is worded, and it is a criminal offence in India under the Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961.
- Weight. Height is asked for almost universally; weight is not, and adding it invites a conversation nobody benefits from.
Turning it into a file
Once the content is right, the page has to survive being forwarded. Keep it to one page, send a PDF with a JPG alongside it for WhatsApp, and name the file with her name rather than `biodata_final_v3`. Twelve ready formats are here if you would rather not lay it out yourself, and the formatting guide covers margins, type size and which file to send where.
Read next
- Marriage Biodata Format for a Boy (With a Full Sample)
The standard marriage biodata format for a groom — field order, a complete filled sample, and how to write about work and income without turning the page into a bank statement.
- 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.
- Choosing the Photograph
The photo is looked at before a single word is read. How to pick one, what to avoid, and the technical details that decide whether it survives WhatsApp.