{"id":260914,"date":"2017-09-27T14:45:59","date_gmt":"2017-09-27T18:45:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/?p=260914"},"modified":"2020-12-17T11:52:50","modified_gmt":"2020-12-17T16:52:50","slug":"italy-woman-marries-herself-in-fairytale-without-prince","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/sv\/italy-woman-marries-herself-in-fairytale-without-prince\/","title":{"rendered":"Italy woman marries herself in \u2018fairytale without prince\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
RAEL\u2019S COMMENT:<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n
Wonderful!!!<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n

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An Italian woman has married herself in a ceremony complete with white dress, three-layer wedding cake, bridesmaids and 70 guests.<\/p>\n

“I firmly believe that each of us must first of all love ourselves,” said Laura Mesi, a 40-year-old fitness trainer. “You can have a fairytale even without the prince.”<\/p>\n

The ceremony carries no legal weight.<\/p>\n

But Ms Mesi is part of a growing trend for self-marriage – dubbed “sologamy” – in countries around the world.<\/p>\n

Proponents of such ceremonies say it is about self-love and acceptance, and claiming the social affirmation normally reserved for couples who wed.<\/p>\n

Laura says the idea of a solo wedding came to her two years ago, after a 12-year relationship ended.<\/p>\n

In Japan, a travel agency began\u00a0offering bridal ceremonies for single women\u00a0in 2014.<\/p>\n

Reports of people marrying themselves go as far back as 1993. It has spawned a number of books and been a theme of episodes of Sex and the City and Glee.<\/p>\n

In the US, a website called I Married Me offers self-wedding kits. In Canada, an agency called Marry Yourself Vancouver which has been running for more than a year attributes the rise in solo weddings to the growing numbers of single people.<\/p>\n

“Single is the new normal. Celebrate your solo status!” it urges.<\/p>\n

But not everyone welcomes the trend, with some calling it narcissistic, and others criticising it as a pointless submission to a patriarchal institution.<\/p>\n

Among the congratulatory comments left on\u00a0Ms Mesi’s wedding photos\u00a0are others: “So sad”, “you’re out of your mind” and “there’s something wrong with your brain”.<\/p>\n

Last month, British self-wedder Sophie Tanner told BBC Three some people called her “a sad feminist”.<\/p>\n

Ms Mesi has brushed off the catty comments, saying “nothing and no-one can turn off my smile”.<\/p>\n

But in media interviews she acknowledges that solo weddings might not be for everyone. To marry yourself, she says, you need a certain amount of money, the support of those around you, and – above all – “a pinch of madness”.<\/p>\n

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