Free matchmaking event in December

Manama : A free matchmaking event will be held in December to help Muslim men and women to find their life partners. 

The ‘BB Matrimony support event’ will be a non-commercial event organized by volunteers. 

Expatriates as well as Bahrainis are invited to register for the event. The registration process requires the candidate to provide their preferences on who they want to marry as well as to provide details about themselves. 

“How important is it to you that the person you marry should be educated? 0 means not at all. 5 means it’s very important to you” reads one of the questions during the registration process. After the details are entered, a software that was created for the initiative will be used to find possible matches for the candidate.

Organizer of the event, Asif Osman said that the event will be in line with the Islamic laws and guidelines.

“The software is intended to make the process more efficient. The software will match candidates according to the information provided. The match could be a 50 per cent match or a 70 per cent match or more and we will notify the candidate or their guardian. If they are interested then it goes to the next round where they talk to a facilitator about their expectations. If it is still positive, both parties can speak to each other. The female candidate will need to be with a guardian as per Islamic guidelines. However, if the match is less than 50 per cent, we will not be informing the candidates. We will match candidates according to nationality, age, education, ethnic background and many other factors,” Osman said. 

“No details of any registered candidates will be shared with outsiders. Once we have 200 candidates, we will stop accepting any more registrations and then start searching for matches from the registrations we received,” he said. The event will be held on December 15, anyone interested can register by visiting http://www.bbmatrimony.win