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.
She 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."
Grace was wed by her friend Tiu - a celebrant -
who backed her plans and said the deal would set
her up for a new phase of life. But Grace suffered a
case of the pre-wedding jitters only a month before
the big day and had to be convinced she was doing
the right thing.
Although the wedding holds no legal ground,
Grace is glad she is no longer a 'single' lady.
She added:
"It felt like a really big deal saying my vows, which
were mostly about me promising to take more risks
in matters of the heart. I really don’t see it as any
kind of feminist statement, but creating a wedding
of this kind on my own terms felt incredibly
empowering."

This is just sadistic! Sooo sad. I give her one year tops! Her ass will be suicidal and jump off a cliff

Smh

This is weird.

Shows how lonely and depressed she feels. Why kiss the mirror? Oyibo shaaa........SMH. She needs a real man!

sofunmikamgbo:
Shows how lonely and depressed she feels. Why kiss the mirror? Oyibo shaaa........SMH. She needs a real man!

No be lie, she is really lonely, how on earth human being go dey marry him/her self, y she no come naija self, naija wey no wan use eye see oyinbo woman.

Whats this

Marriage is so overrated
We need more of this

Although the wedding holds no legal ground, Grace is glad she is no longer a 'single' lady.
She added: "It felt like a really big deal saying my vows, which were mostly about me promising to take more risks in matters of the heart. I really don’t see it as any kind of feminist statement, but creating a wedding of this kind on my own terms felt incredibly empowering."