Indian matrimony in New Zealand

Matrimony built for Indians living in New Zealand: verified members, photos private until she approves, contact details never shown, and a real matchmaker when you want one. Women join free.

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Open in New Zealand today. Everyone checks their ID before going live.

What search looks like

Your search

Sample

Auckland + 50 km

Indian

27–33

Vegetarian

Citizen or PR

Auckland + 50 km

Indian

25–30

Vegetarian

Any status

Approved men who match your preferences. Newest first. Women whose preferences you match, and who chose to be found. Newest first.

Checked

Rohit, 29

Auckland · Civil engineer

Indian
Vegetarian
Born here

Matches 7 of 7 of your preferences

Checked

Arjun, 30

Auckland · GP

Indian
Hindi
Citizen

Matches 6 of 7 of your preferences

Photos, private

Priya, 26

Auckland · Physiotherapist

Indian
Vegetarian
Citizen

Matches 7 of 7 of your preferences

Photos, private

Divya, 27

Auckland · Pharmacist

Indian
Hindi
Grew up here

Matches 6 of 7 of your preferences

A person read every profile here before it went live. Photos stay private until one of you accepts the other’s interest, and then you see each other’s. Your phone and email are never shown to anyone. Photos appear when she approves your request. Every interest you send carries a note you wrote, so make it count. Her contact details are never shown; she shares them if she wants to.

Indian New Zealand

The community in New Zealand

The Auckland skyline and harbour under a low sun — Swafie / Unsplash

Indians are now the largest Asian ethnic group in New Zealand, 292,092 people at the 2023 census, ahead of Chinese for the first time, and the community includes both recent migrants and Fiji Indian families who have been here for generations.

Rishta is built for the Indian community in Australia and New Zealand: it started with Punjabi and Sikh families and is built just as much for Hindi-speaking, Gujarati, Tamil, Telugu, Malayali, Kannada, Bengali, Marathi, Muslim, Christian and Fiji Indian ones. Religion, community, mother tongue and family origin are four separate filters rather than one muddled one, “no bar” is always an option, and none of it is public: there are no profile pages anyone can browse from Google.

Built in, not promised

How Rishta works for Indians in New Zealand

What a profile here covers for Indians: Religion and community · Mother tongue · Family origin (India, Fiji, Sri Lanka, elsewhere) · Diet · Citizen, PR or visa.

ID-checked, or invisible: Everyone checks their ID before going live, and a person looks over every new profile the same day. Until then you cannot search and nobody can find you. Nobody appears just because they filled in a form.
A real ID, a real face: Photograph your passport or licence, then your face. Didit checks the document is genuine and that the live face matches it, and, if your profile has photos by then, that your main photo is the same person. It takes about two minutes and costs you nothing. We are told the result and the name, age and gender on the ID, never the photos of your document.
No firehose: Every interest has to carry a note someone wrote by hand, at least forty characters of it, so nobody can bulk-send. There is no daily quota to spend and no button that fires a hundred taps at once.
Talk without giving out your number: Once you have accepted someone you can call them, voice, straight from the conversation. It goes between your two phones and never through us. Either of you can ask to turn cameras on mid-call, and the other has to agree first. You can switch calls off entirely and still write to people.
A matchmaker, never from your city: If you want a matchmaker, yours is never from your own city, so she will not run into you at a wedding. It is a paid service for women and men alike: an Icebreaker call is $39, and on Vichola ($1,199 for 3 months) she searches and approaches on your behalf. Searching and talking yourself is free for women.

Questions Indians in New Zealand ask us

Can I join in New Zealand?

Yes, today. Women join free. Men join with Search, $39 a month or $99 for 3 months. Everyone checks their ID before going live.

How is this different from Shaadi.com for Indians in New Zealand?

Three ways. Everyone checks their ID before going live, and a person looks over every new profile. Women decide who can find them, and their photos are hidden until they approve someone. And no phone number or email is ever displayed on a profile, at any membership level. There is a longer comparison at /rishta-vs-shaadi.

Do women pay?

Not to search, be found, add photos, send interests, message or call. That is free for women permanently, and men pay for the same things. A matchmaker working on your behalf is a separate paid service for everyone, because that is a person’s time.

Can my parents be involved?

Yes. Family can pay for a son’s membership, can see a Family View page you choose the contents of, and can speak to your matchmaker with your consent. What they can’t do is put a profile live for someone who hasn’t agreed to it: the person on the profile checks their own ID first.

Can I filter by community and mother tongue?

Yes. Mother tongue, religion, community (with “caste no bar” always available), diet, family origin and residency status are all filters, and any of them can be a must-have.

A note from the founder

I spent six months on a paid plan on the biggest matrimonial site in the world, searching honestly for someone to marry from here. I found roughly ten men for every woman, a paid plan that produced nothing, and a fake profile I could make in minutes.

Rishta is what I wished had existed: women free with nothing held back, photos hidden until she says yes, every profile ID-checked before it goes live, every interest written by hand, no phone numbers on the page, and a matchmaker who is never from your own town. I built it because I am looking too.

Founder, Auckland · Read the research

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Indian matrimony in New Zealand, done properly.

Women join free. Men join with Search, $39 a month or $99 for 3 months.