Is self-marriage for you?
Whether it's the ultimate in narcissism or a form of accountability, the trend of people marrying themselves seems to be catching on. "With this ring I me wed." Jennifer Hoes just celebrated her ninth wedding anniversary - to herself. On her 30th birthday in 2003, the Dutch woman had a self-wedding, complete with cameras. While it would be premature to call it a trend, several people since then have taken the vows of self-marriage as a way of contractually binding themselves to matrimonial values. Anderson Cooper's talk show recently featured a woman who had wed herself, and even took herself out on dates. "I started discovering that the love I need, it's in here," Nadine Schweigert said, pointing to her heart. She had a ceremony, she had vows, she had the whole nine because "I wanted to share that with people... it's a form of accountability," the 36-year-old South Dakota divorcee said. For others, self-marriage is about working on ones' self in the context of a relationship. "I find it very hard to have to disappoint people for example, which can lead to being unfaithful to them and yourself," said Hoes, an artist whose wedding in Haarlem, The Netherlands, made headlines nine years ago. "My motto at the time of my wedding was, 'Life is a matter of shaping it.'
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