Valentine's Day will soon be upon us and that means people around the world will be trying to get engaged. If you're one of these lovebirds and are feeling anxious about popping the question, don't worry.
If you let these emotions get the best of you, you might end up chickening out and marrying your cat. We're not joking.In this day of social conflict over who can marry who, you might be surprised at the strange marriage choices people have been making for decades.
In 2007, Liu Ye of China decided it would be better to marry himself than be single. The best part is that he married a foam-board cutout of himself dressed in a lovely red dress.
Ye admits to being narcissistic, but said of his nuptials, “There are many reasons for marrying myself, but mainly to express my dissatisfaction with reality.
”Marrying oneself is not just for the guys, though. In 2003, artist Jennifer Hoes married herself in the Netherlands on her 30th birthday. It was a large affair in front of friends and family. Hoes said, “Why not pledge allegiance to yourself in a ceremony, as the basis for completion of your life and relationships?The same thing happened in October of 2010 when 30-year-old Chen Wei Yih married herself in Taiwan.
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to do so, but had found no suitable partner. She solved the problem by marrying herself.In 2006, a Hindu woman in India claimed she had fallen in love with a snake and then married the snake in accordance with Hindu marriage rituals.
More than 2,000 people participated in a celebratory procession, because they felt a wedding would bring good luck. The snake did not attend, but was represented by a brass likeness of himself.
After a 15-year courtship, a British woman married Cindy the dolphin in a ceremony in Isreal. She claimed when they met it was love at first sight and calls the male dolphin, “the love of my life.
” She sealed the deal with a kiss and the gift of a herring.In Sudan, you have to be careful who you’re caught being intimate with. There is a law that dictates that if a man is caught sleeping with a woman, he must marry her immediately to save the honor of her family.
In 2006, the law was applied to a goat. Charles Tombe was caught having relations with the goat and was forced to marry it, and pay a dowry to its owner, as a form of public embarrassment.
Apparently, sometimes marrying an animal can help you with your luck. A farmer in India, who had suffered from some disabilities, believed he had been cursed after stoning two dogs to death in his rice field.
Doctors couldn’t help him, but his astrologer told him the only way to lift the curse would be to marry a dog and live with it.Cats can also be man’s best friend. So much so that a postal worker in Germany married his cat after a veterinarian told him the feline was terminally ill. No German officials would
