[Photos] Woman Marries Self In Grand Style

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQEmIXFEXfuA7r9XuThzeBGs_Zq66Ac3odx_7eleqVhBUmZIdxAjna7edQPKTKz7MlZ1BgFe5XumIIaVC3Gd23EGaX-hlw55nQku8xR2mGeVxdXy-qxwN7mPzPTWvGVhKGWkMdXgIpr9Y/s1600/SelfMarriage0.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="194" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQEmIXFEXfuA7r9XuThzeBGs_Zq66Ac3odx_7eleqVhBUmZIdxAjna7edQPKTKz7MlZ1BgFe5XumIIaVC3Gd23EGaX-hlw55nQku8xR2mGeVxdXy-qxwN7mPzPTWvGVhKGWkMdXgIpr9Y/s1600/SelfMarriage0.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> <br /> <span style="text-align: justify;">Many women say they have always wanted to get married but have never found the right man.</span><br /> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Now a 31-year-old filmmaker from London has got around the problem by tying the knot to herself.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Grace Gelder had been single for six years when she decided to organise the unorthodox ceremony on her own.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> She proposed to herself on a park bench, bought a ring and a dress and invited all of her friends to watch her make her vows.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Ms Gelder told the <i>Guardian</i>: ‘The day was obviously centred on me, the final event being a mirror for me to kiss, but it also felt like I was sharing something very special with my friends, giving everyone an opportunity to reflect on their own ideas of love and commitment.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> ‘I had one friend in her 50s who said it was one of the best weddings she’d ever been to.'</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The photographer said that 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.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2iltgoWWswgtxCtlx1IqOA3rFNaMFfAbOaZHcOQbPAv5sIqg4H_tZo1Gl363BJxLXaVcC9_O6aGWA5YwkxaXu394HrIcTgm5q6V1HKgBOcns0SaUi4SU2e-RTvcle36FaSEO0dVDBEOc/s1600/SelfMarriage1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="192" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2iltgoWWswgtxCtlx1IqOA3rFNaMFfAbOaZHcOQbPAv5sIqg4H_tZo1Gl363BJxLXaVcC9_O6aGWA5YwkxaXu394HrIcTgm5q6V1HKgBOcns0SaUi4SU2e-RTvcle36FaSEO0dVDBEOc/s1600/SelfMarriage1.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Inspired by the Björk song <i>Isobel</i>, which includes the line, <i>‘My name’s Isobel, married to myself'</i>. the Londoner said the lyric struck a chord with her and it was then she decided to walk solo down the aisle.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> From proposing to herself on the park bench in Parliament Hill, London, last November, right through to the ceremony in mid-March this year, the matrimony was approached like an ordinary wedding.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> 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.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b>Source: <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/oct/04/i-married-myself-wedding">The Guardian</a></b></div>

[Photos] Woman Marries Self In Grand Style

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