A woman has married herself after separating from her partner of 20 years with a ceremony in front of her loved ones complete with a white wedding dress, ring and bridesmaids as she performed her vows into a full-length mirror. Robbie Fincham, 57, a marriage and funeral celebrant and mother of three to Roland, 24, and twins, Erica and Alice, 21, had depression after her separation from her partner who she was never married to, in 2015, and having around four years of unsuccessful dates.
Through therapy, she began to “learn to love (herself)” she eventually started to feel “happy in (her) own company” and after another “very brief” unsuccessful relationship she joked to her sister that she should marry herself instead but, after some thought and her sister’s encouragement, she decided to go ahead with it.
On her 55th birthday, on February 7 2021, she had the symbolic ceremony which was not legally binding, in front of her four close friends, her two daughters, who were bridesmaids, and her sister, who was the celebrant.
