Have the solo wedding cake, and eat it, too

"For those men who left the messages and want to marry me,
I appreciate your message and kindness.
However, please do allow me to have my own wedding first."

The quote is from the blog of Only&Only's Wedding - also known as Chen Wei-yih, the 30-year-old Taiwanese woman who has decided to marry herself - since no worthy suitor has turned up. The big day is this Saturday. She has nearly 4,000 people cheering her on through Facebook.

When I heard about this solo wedding deal several things went through my mind:

1. She has to be doing this for the gifts. Have you noticed the massive amount of presents couples get when they get married? It's like a fountain of freebies from Bed, Bath and Beyond, which is cool because that place is crazy expensive. I wish someone would shower me in free BBB stuff!

2. She's doing this for the dress. Every girl dreams about walking down the aisle in a beautiful wedding gown. I guess she doesn't want to wait any longer for that. Kinda understandable, but it doesn't seem as fun walking down the aisle in a wedding dress if there's no hot guy waiting for you at the altar. Talk about awkward.

3. Why on earth would you marry someone that's just like you? Even if it's you and you like you? Where's the variety? The spontaneity? Wouldn't eating dinner for one be odd? You'd have to pay all the time. 

4. How are you going to carry yourself over the threshold for the honeymoon? What about the first dance? And if you get into a fight with yourself, would you give yourself the silent treatment?

You laugh, but these are all valid questions.

All kidding aside, I'm not sure what to think about this solo wedding thing. But it's Chen's life and she's free to do whatever she wants. She says, "We must love ourselves before we love others." True. But I can love myself without having to spend $5,000 or so on a wedding to prove it. At least she'll get free gifts. And if she ends up finding her true love, which I believe she will somewhere down the road (I mean, come on, she's already got proposals coming in since news of this went global), she'll get wedding gifts twice and wear a wedding dress twice, with no messy divorce involved.

I think I'm starting to see the brilliance in her plan.