British woman marries herself

A woman so fed up with the dating scene and single life has become the first person in Britain to marry herself, Mirror Online reports.

Grace Gelder even 'proposed' to herself on a park bench and staged a full wedding ceremony with 50 guests.

The photographer said that after being single for six years she had built up a brilliant relationship with herself - and creating that bond with someone else seemed like too much hard work.

Inspired by the Björk song Isobel, which includes the line, 'My name's Isobel, married to myself', the Londoner said the lyric struck a chord with her and it was then she decided to walk solo down the aisle.

From proposing to herself on the park bench in Parliament Hill, London, last November, right through to the ceremony in mid-March this year, the matrimony was approached like an ordinary wedding.

Grace bought a dress, a ring, rehearsed vows and eventually wed in a farmhouse in rural Devon watched by her sister and friends -sealing the deal by planting a kiss on a mirror.

Speaking to the Guardian, she said: "A few did comment, in a light-hearted way, that it was a bit narcissitic. Obviously, if you have just announced you’re marrying yourself, it is plainly a statement of self-love, and I was under no illusion how self-indulgent that might appear.

"Included in this was a Shakti Tantra programme focused on sexuality and how this was bound up with making agreements with yourself and other people.”