Monday 6 October 2014

PHOTOS: Woman Marries HERSELF after Being Single for 6 Years

Grace Gelder was so fed up with the dating
scene and single life that she decided
to become the first person in Britain to
marry HERSELF.

Grace decided to commit to the most
important person in her life, 'proposed' to
herself last November on a park bench and
staged a full wedding ceremony with 50
guests. According to her, after being
single for six years she had built up a brilliant
relationship with herself - and creating that
bond with someone else seemed like too
much hard work.

Inspired by the Björk song Isobel, which
includes the line, 'My name's Isobel, married
to myself', the Londoner said the lyric struck
a chord with her and it was then she decided
to walk solo down the aisle.
Grace bought a dress, a ring, rehearsed vows
and eventually wed in a farmhouse in rural
Devon watched by her sister and friends -
sealing the deal by planting a kiss on a
mirror. Speaking to the Guardian, she said:

"A few did comment, in a light-hearted
way, that it was a bit narcissitic.
Obviously, if you have just announced
you’re marrying yourself, it is plainly a
statement of self-love, and I was under
no illusion how self-indulgent that might
appear. But I was completely
comfortable with my motivations. I’d
been on a journey of personal
development using meditation, dance
and performance to increase my self-
awareness. Included in this was a Shakti
Tantra programme focused on sexuality
and how this was bound up with making
agreements with yourself and other
people.

Sitting on that park bench, it dawned on
me that a self-marriage ceremony
witnessed by other people would
potentially be this massively powerful
means of making those agreements
stick."

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