I have seen my share of dubious marriages:
- Cousins. ü
- People marrying while on a drunken binge? ü
- People from East Helena, Montana, marrying people from Butte, America? ü
- Friends
marrying drug-using exotic dancers? ü
That’s
a lot to consider. But consider
this. A woman in the United Kingdom
recently celebrated her one-year anniversary with a tree she married.
Yep. A tree.
Kate
Cunningham, from Sefton, Merseyside, married an elder tree she “met” at Rimrose
Valley Country Park. She said of her marriage to the elder tree, “Marrying the tree has given me a new purpose. I’ve changed my name to Elder. So even that
gives me a whole new feeling. It fits in
with married life as well, I feel like a changed person.”
Kate
entertained what may (in some circles) be described as sound reasons for
marrying the tree. The ceremony was
inspired by female activists in Mexico who held similar ceremonies as a form of
protest to raise awareness of illegal logging and land clearing. Kate similarly hoped her marriage would
attract attention to a campaign to save Rimrose Valley Country Park from being
transformed into a bypass by Highways England.
Notably,
Kates’s boyfriend and her children—particularly her 15-year-old son—are not as
keen on the marriage. They remained at
home when she went to the park to mark the first anniversary with a few friends
and a glass of elderflower champagne.
Kate
Cunningham and Her Husband, September 2019
—Mitchell Hegman
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