Grooming Herself to be a Bride without a Groom
OMAHA, Neb- Janet Downes is sparing no effort for her June 27 wedding.
There will be a choir, a wedding gown, the usual wedding cake and flowers -- but no groom. She is getting married to herself.
Downes, who turns 40 that day, decided on the mock wedding as a way of celebrating the fact that she is "happy with herself", regardless of the men in her life.
She'll exchange vows by reciting in front of a mirror, "I, Janet Downes, take myself with all my strengths and faults..." The music program will include the song "My Way" and a ditty Downes penned herself: "We've got to kiss a lot of frogs/Just to find that prince/You know what girls?/I'm not convinced."
More than 200 friends and relatives, including her fiancé of four years, are expected to attend, but there will be no priest. Downes said she might conduct a legal wedding with her fiancé some time in the future.
Let's not think about her honeymoon, shall we.
Please come to my "It's All About Meeeeeee" wedding celebration. I hope she didn't expect the guests to bring gifts.