Marriages might be made in heaven, but the Stamps and Registration Department has finally decided to make it a happy occasion on earth for the newly-weds by cutting down registration time to just 10 minutes.

What's more, in a rare act of sensitivity, the certificate will now come with a festive floral design in keeping with the mood of the occasion.

Like all other activities carried out by the department, registering a marriage and obtaining a certificate is an onerous task at the moment. While the department itself specifies that the task could take up to a day, couples often end up running from pillar to post trying to accede to the various demands made by employees. But no longer.

"As part of the new computerization module, KAVERI (Karnataka Valuation and eRegistration), marriages will be registered and certificates delivered within 5-10 minutes, since technically it does not require many documents or a laborious procedure," department sources told The Times of India.

KAVERI, essentially a business process re-engineering and eGovernance model with public-private partnership for realizing 100 percent automation of registration process and delivery of registered documents within 30 minutes, has specially incorporated, among others, a module for marriage registration and automatic generation of certificate. The cost of a certificate will be Rs. 20 only.