Guwahati: In a rare ‘sologamy’ wedding, a 24-year-old woman from Gujarat’s Vadodara wedded herself on Wednesday in the company of only a few close friends at her home.
The woman in question, Kshama Bindu, was planning to marry herself on June 11th.
Despite trolls and even the temple priest’s refusal, Bindu married herself by playing divine wedding mantras on a bluetooth speaker, wearing bridal garlands, and taking vows.
According to Bindu, she refused to take any criticism and, as a result of constant trolls and social media criticism, she held her wedding quietly at home.
Affirming herself “happy”, she said, “I want to provide only one answer to the trollers that it is my life and I have taken this decision for myself.”
“I might start like someone in the future, but it is not necessary that I will be someone’s wife,” she said ANI when asked if she will ever marry someone else in her life.
She also stated that she will never marry again since she is bound by this ‘knot with herself.’
Bindu works for a private corporation and decided to marry herself, complete with all of the Hindu wedding ceremonies and customs. She organised everything herself from the ‘pheras’ to the ‘Sindoor’ to a Goa honeymoon.
She feels that in order for a marriage to work both partners must love one other and she claims that she is marrying herself because she loves herself.
Her parents were also taken aback at first, but eventually agreed with their daughter’s decision.
The news of her marriage elicited a range of reactions from social media users. While some mocked her, others encouraged her to accept herself.
According to legal authorities, the concept of self-marriage in India is neither binding nor legal.
According to Hindu law, Marriage is a religious sacrament in which a man and a woman are joined in a permanent connection for the purposes of dharma, procreation, and sexual pleasure.
