Arranged Show on FYI

Was astonished that I found this wonderful show on On Demand last month. It was so interesting watching all ten episodes of this unique show. Season one of Arranged introduced us to three couples from various religions who follow the tradition of arranged marriages.

Couple one was Christian and Maria who were 18 and 17 year old Romany/Gypsy teenagers. They were a unique couple that in the beginning argued many times and it seemed like Christian spent more time playing video games than spending time with his wife. They were the only couple who lived with the extended family because they lived with Christian’s family. Surprisingly Christian and Maria were the couple who won the newly arranged game that was played in the reunion episode when all three couples got together for dinner.

The second couple was Josh and Meghan who were 28 and 24 year old Caucasian Southern Baptists. Josh’s mother was very interesting because she was always criticizing Meghan. One example of this was saying on the wedding day that Meghan loved to eat. Because Josh was a momma’s boy he never stood up for his wife and that was one thing that I wish he could have done better.

Couple number 3 was Veeral and Ragini who were 34 and 33 Indian Hindus. Ragini was confident but Veeral usually didn’t listen to her like for example after the Sangeet he stays up the whole night partying and dancing. He ends up waking up late and he has to write his vows on his cell phone whereas Ragini had written her vows earlier and had at least slept some the night before her wedding. Veeral freestyles his vows but they prove to be written amazingly well and he pulls it off. Ragini’s vows were very emotional especially her last line when she said that she would love to have him as her husband in every future lifetime of hers.