Background: Marriage is widely believed to be a cure for many types of mental disorders including psychoses, neurosis and hysteria, among the general populace. A common question posed by patients and their relatives to the treating psychiatrist, concerning the effects of marriage, either good or bad on patients suffering from schizophrenia. Keeping in view the enormity of this problem, studies of such are crucial in providing advice to both patients as well as their caregivers. Objective: To study the effect of marriage on women with Schizophrenia in terms of demographic variables, marital characteristics and clinical outcome. Also to study and compare the severity of illness with family functioning and interaction in single and married women with Schizophrenia and to study marital adjustment in married women with schizophrenia. Methods: The participants were assessed using a semi-structured pro forma to record demographic and socioeconomic variables, Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale, Family Assessment Device, Marital Adjustment Rating Scale, Family Interaction Pattern Scale and ICD-10 Criteria for diagnosis of Schizophrenia were administered. Results: There was no significant difference between cases and controls in various sociodemographic variables except occupational background of both groups and a higher number of patients having longer (__ampersandsigngt;10 years) duration of illness in the control group than cases. Chances of exacerbation of illness are more after marriage. Conclusion: Marriage alone does not influence the severity of illness, family functioning and family interaction in both group and marital adjustment in married patients of schizophrenia.