[Jones]

Oh, Canada

From a CTV News article titled:
Marry yourself, why don't you? These women are

"Marry Yourself Vancouver co-founder Tallulah was among the original seven brides, all good friends, who decided to take the plunge, play princess for a day, and marry themselves."

"If you don't get married, marrying yourself is a way to celebrate yourself, your achievements, to have a day when you bring your community together."
"It's just if you don't happen to marry someone later on, you have this great day."

"She says the single brides made vows to themselves."

Mobile phone link:
http://www.ctvnews.ca/mobile/lifestyle/m...-1.2976899

[General Stalin]

This is actually pretty sad. This has to be one of the loneliest and most depressing things I have ever heard of.

[ivansirko]

A fancy way of taking a selfie if you ask me......

[Guriko]

And when they will divorce themselves the system will appoint them a man who has been ordered to ‘Man Up’ and pay for the proceedings. House, alimony and all. As idiotic as my statement is I can even picture such a scene happening.

[odesseus]

Was in the city (Vancouver) this past weekend - on my way home I said to my wife 'there is a lot of alpha guys (white, brown, chinese) hooked up with little Asian girls, what gives? And what's with the gaggles of single white women parading around looking miserable?' She says that is just the way it is now in the city.

In Vancouver at least it seems that the 'go gurrrls' are being left behind and trying to find ways to cope.

[Gmac]

Attention whores gonna do what they do best. Western women today just can't have enough of it.

[Suits]

How independent and strong!

[John Michael Kane]

@Odysseus,

That's because Asian women in general are more culturally inclined to commit to betas who have their act together. Most Asian girls are more pragmatic and long term thinking than your average white Canadian.

[GoldHawkStar]

Sadly not the first time this has happened.

I suppose that's one option of accepting the fact that you never settled down while your uterus slowly dries away.

Ride the carousel, hit the wall, marry yourself, die alone.

[HornyRamone]

Let me guess, their cats play the bridesmaids and groomsmen.

[Foolsgo1d]

"If you don't get married, marrying yourself is a way to celebrate yourself, your achievements, to have a day when you bring your community together."


Translation: "All eyes are on me for the day!"

[Mrredsquare]

(07-07-2016 10:57 AM)Jones Wrote:  

Oh, Canada

From a CTV News article titled:
Marry yourself, why don't you? These women are

"Marry Yourself Vancouver co-founder Tallulah was among the original seven brides, all good friends, who decided to take the plunge, play princess for a day, and marry themselves."

"If you don't get married, marrying yourself is a way to celebrate yourself, your achievements, to have a day when you bring your community together."
"It's just if you don't happen to marry someone later on, you have this great day."

"She says the single brides made vows to themselves."

Mobile phone link:
http://www.ctvnews.ca/mobile/lifestyle/m...-1.2976899

[Remington]

I can smell the desperation...and kitty litter.

[TheBlackNarwhal]

The honeymoon is an all-inclusive trip to Europe to be railed out by refugees for diversity purposes.

[Liberty Sea]

(07-07-2016 03:33 PM)GoldHawkStar Wrote:  

Sadly not the first time this has happened.

I suppose that's one option of accepting the fact that you never settled down while your uterus slowly dries away.

Ride the carousel, hit the wall, marry yourself, die alone.

You forgot 'buy ten cats.'

[kaotic]

Was not disappointed in what they looked like:

[Leonard D Neubache]

Bringing in the whole community?

Imagine you get a letter inviting you to a solo wedding. After being disgusted and saddened by the very idea of attending you bin the invite and make your excuses.

But let's assume that you have to go for some reason. Can you imagine just for a second what the atmosphere would be like on the day? It would literally be worse than a fucking funeral.

It would be like a funeral where the corpse had been reanimated to walk around in some grotesque mockery of the living being they once represented, and everyone had to shake hands with the corpse and congratulate it on what a great funeral it was throwing.

[AntiMediocrity]

(07-07-2016 09:15 PM)Leonard D Neubache Wrote:  

But let's assume that you have to go for some reason. Can you imagine just for a second what the atmosphere would be like on the day? It would literally be worse than a fucking funeral.

It would be like a funeral where the corpse had been reanimated to walk around in some grotesque mockery of the living being they once represented, and everyone had to shake hands with the corpse and congratulate it on what a great funeral it was throwing.

You underestimate the average western individuals ability to turn anything into "fun".

Quote:

This is actually pretty sad. This has to be one of the loneliest and most depressing things I have ever heard of.

What about those Japanese dudes who marry their Waifu cushion/game?

[Suits]

(07-07-2016 06:51 PM)kaotic Wrote:  

Was not disappointed in what they looked like:

[Rocket75]

I used to work in event management. Came across a guy once who owned a reception hall, and told me that a woman had booked it for the following year. She had no fiancee or even a boyfriend. She just decided she was going to get married, and booked a day for it, paid the deposit, etc.

We though she had made the assumption that some guy would waltz into her life, agree with the short timeframe and the exact date she picked, and marry her happily ever after.... but maybe she was a pioneer in the self-marrying movement.

[CynicalContrarian]

Ordinarily, I'd be surprised that they don't dismiss & ridicule weddings as part of old school 'patriarchy'.
The whole passing of lineage, property & palming off of a less useful daughter & all.

Of course, there's no way the girls are going give up their 'Princess Day'!
Seems Princess Day doesn't even require a prince now...

[polar]

I thought that part of the marriage ceremony was relinquishing your pride and personal sense of self, and formalizing a union of two?

A mockery of a once-sacred ceremony if I've ever seen one.

[Eirykr]

This is the logical conclusion of the White Wedding fantasy that exists as the ultimate pussy pedestal event.

Weddings are no longer a day to ritualize a union between man and woman but a day centered around giving women as much attention as possible.

[CynicalContrarian]

Let's not forget the simple contradiction that to marry, is to join something / someone else.

A single individual by all logic, cannot marry themselves.

Well, unless they have multiple personalities perhaps...

[Mr. D]

(07-10-2016 07:26 AM)CynicalContrarian Wrote:  

Let's not forget the simple contradiction that to marry, is to join something / someone else.

A single individual by all logic, cannot marry themselves.

Well, unless they have multiple personalities perhaps...

At least the first signs of schizophrenia are clearly visible.

But what happens when the inevitable divorce-bomb drops? Who gets the house/apartment?
Who takes on the majority of the debts? Who gets custody of the cats?