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The bride-to-be who is engaged to herself
Chen Wei-yih of Taiwan has found the right person to marry — herself. She's spending $5,675 on a groom-less wedding that concludes with a honeymoon in Australia. Chen Wei-yih has also posed for a set of photos in a flowing white dress, enlisted a wedding planner and rented a banquet hall for a marriage celebration with 30 friends.

Uninspired by the men she's met but facing social pressure to get married, the 30-year-old Taipei office worker will hold the reception in November 2010 in honor of just one person. The mony for her wedding comes after online publicity that has netted 1,800 largely sympathetic comments.

Taiwanese women are marrying later and less often as their economic status advances, fuelling government concerns about a drop in the birth rate and its impact on productivity.

'I was just hoping that more people would love themselves,' woman says ahead of solo honeymoon.

Link: http://www.neatorama.com/2010/10/23/woman-engaged-to-marry-herself/
 
 

 
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