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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
\u201cI firmly believe that each of us must first of all love ourselves,\u201d said Laura Mesi, a 40-year-old fitness trainer. \u201cYou can have a fairytale even without the prince.\u201d<\/p>\n
The ceremony carries no legal weight.<\/p>\n
But Ms Mesi is part of a growing trend for self-marriage \u2013 dubbed \u201csologamy\u201d \u2013 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
\u201cI told friends and family that if I had not found my soul-mate by my 40th birthday I would marry myself,\u201d she told La Repubblica newspaper.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf one day I find a man with whom I can plan a future I\u2019ll be happy, but my happiness does not depend on him.<\/p>\n
Ms Mesi says she is the first Italian woman to hold a solo ceremony. In May, a man, Nello Ruggiero, said \u201cyes\u201d to himself in a ceremony in Naples.<\/p>\n
In Japan, a travel agency began offering bridal ceremonies for single women in 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
\u201cSingle is the new normal. Celebrate your solo status!\u201d 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 Ms Mesi\u2019s wedding photos are others: \u201cSo sad\u201d, \u201cyou\u2019re out of your mind\u201d and \u201cthere\u2019s something wrong with your brain\u201d.<\/p>\n
Last month, British self-wedder Sophie Tanner told BBC Three some people called her \u201ca sad feminist\u201d.<\/p>\n
Ms Mesi has brushed off the catty comments, saying \u201cnothing and no-one can turn off my smile\u201d.<\/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 \u2013 above all \u2013 \u201ca pinch of madness\u201d.<\/p>\n
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