Want to get married but there’s no partner in the picture? Turn that frown upside down: You can always marry yourself, which is definitely a Thing. But you should be aware that you’re no trailblazer and you’re sure as hell not thumbing your nose at the system. You’re buying into it.
Houston’s Yasmin Eleby gave herself a deadline: find a husband by age 40. That didn’t work out, but Yasmin wasn’t going to call it quits, not exactly. So in a “fabulous, candlelit ceremony,” she recently married herself. In the days since, the story has gone viral—but this self-marriage idea has has been done before, each time garnering significant coverage. It’s become a burgeoning cliché for the 30+ and single crowd.
A brief and incomplete history:
2003: Jennifer Hoes married herself in the Netherlands; she was thirty at the time. She said of her decision, “I married myself at the moment I was prepared to embrace my own life and agree on the responsibilities that come with that.”
July 2007: Of course Lifetime was on this idea ages ago. As you’ll see from the trailer below, the made-for-tv movie I Me Wed is so well-written and features such powerful performances that it’s no wonder some women were inspired to follow suit.
(If your appetite has been sufficiently whet, good news: You can watch the entire thing in full here.)-
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