Last week I said that weddings being held at McDonalds was a perfect metaphor for our time. Well, this is a more perfecter metaphor for our time.
Chen Wei-yih has 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.
But there is no groom. Chen will marry herself.
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 next month in honor of just one person.
“Age thirty is a prime period for me. My work and experience are in good shape, but I haven’t found a partner, so what can I do?” Chen said.
“It’s not that I’m anti-marriage. I just hope that I can express a different idea within the bounds of a tradition.”
We should always remember that any and all traditions have no hold on us, in fact they should not even be considered. Because first and foremost we must remember that it’s all about us.
If we can’t say marriage is between a man and a woman why should we be able to say it must be between two people rather than just one, right?
October 23, 2010 at 6:20 pm
Another clueless, self-absorbed idiot.
October 23, 2010 at 10:55 pm
Wow. Just wow.
October 23, 2010 at 11:08 pm
Your last paragraph says it all.
October 23, 2010 at 11:39 pm
Matthew, better delete the comment from the so-called "Father Wilson."
October 23, 2010 at 11:48 pm
Oh my god that's disgusting. Father Wilson!!
October 24, 2010 at 12:22 am
So if she gets sufficently annoyed at herself could if be grounds for divorce?
October 24, 2010 at 1:40 am
Wondering if the marriage has been consumnated.
October 24, 2010 at 1:47 am
Matthew! Matthew!! I've never seen anything so wrenched! Please delete it!!
October 24, 2010 at 2:50 am
Matthew – please delete Father Wilson's comment post haste.
October 24, 2010 at 3:54 am
Was there a prenuptual agreement?
October 24, 2010 at 4:14 am
And another lesson on the internet. You don't have to click on every link someone posts. I rarely do, unless the person is someone known (like Larry D, Rick, etc.:-). And I'm a good guesser:-).
October 24, 2010 at 2:47 pm
This marry yourself crap was caused by the homosexual agenda. They started this trend. If everybody just followed the Catholic Church the world would be a better place. Marrying yourself and homosexuality are sinful and repressible acts against GOD.
October 30, 2010 at 10:54 am
Marriage is a covenant between God and man, expressed in consummation and unity between husband and wife. "Husband" and "wife" are offices to which some members of society adhere to fulfill their vocation. So, marriage is also a vocation, a calling by God. Homosexual behavior cannot be called marriage because it is a dishonoring of the mother and father who brought these persons into the world through "the laws of nature and natures's God" according to the endowed unalienable rights, civil and moral, written into The Declaration of Independence. Homosexual behavior and militant homosexuals actually are denying society the rights endowed unalienably by "our CREATOR".
November 5, 2010 at 5:44 pm
Wow, I wonder what's wrong with her when there are 120 Chinese men to every 100 Chinese women. One would think she could find the pick of the litter so to speak.