I married MYSELF because I couldn’t find Mr Right! Bride spent £10K on big day after buying own engagement ring
A woman who spent twenty years saving for her wedding married herself after never finding the right man.
Sarah Wilkinson, 42, shared her story BBC Radio Suffolkwhere she explained how to “be a princess for today.”
The bride married at Harvest House, Felixstowe, surrounded by forty of her family and friends during the day, and another forty in the evening.
According to the BBC, on this occasion she paid out £10,000 and wrote 14 vows for herself to keep.
She explained that it started when she turned 40 and wanted to buy herself an engagement ring: “I’ve always wanted to wear the stone on the finger, it’s always been a thing.”
Sarah Wilkinson, 42, shared her story on BBC Radio Suffolk, where she explained how she had to ‘be a princess for the day’
The bride married at Harvest House, Felixstowe, surrounded by forty of her family and friends during the day, and another forty in the evening.
According to the BBC, on this occasion she paid out £10,000 and wrote 14 vows for herself in honor of
From there it went on and led to the credit controller buying a wedding dress and deciding to spend the whole day without a partner.
She said: ‘I turned 40 and thought, hmm, there aren’t really any prospects at the moment, we’ll give it a year and see what happens, and then I’ll just go and buy my own engagement ring.
‘I’ve been saving for my wedding day for a long time and when you get to the point where I might not have this with a partner by my side, I thought, why would I miss this? Isn’t it just because I don’t have that?’
‘In the end it costs what it costs. I was a little naive about how much it would actually be, but in the end that money was set aside for my wedding.”
She continued: ‘Everyone was very happy, no one stopped smiling all day and everyone said what a great time they had. It couldn’t have turned out better.
Almost all of her friends said, “That’s such a Sarah thing to do,” as they all supported her.
Although she admitted “there were a few people who were concerned at first and were like, oh God, are you okay?”
When asked if she has given up on finding the man of her dreams, it was a firm no as she explained that she ‘never had’. It was just a matter of stopping looking.”