- Okay, you know I get it,
sometimes people get lonely.
Sometimes people start looking for love
in all the wrong places.
But if your dying cat starts looking good,
you might wanna get some help.
Oh yeah, that happened.
Here are 10 people who married non-human things.
(dolphin chirping)
Number 10 is a dying cat.
Back in 2010,
39-year-old Uwe Mitzscherlich
of Possendorf, Germany
married his aging and deathly-ill cat, Cecilia.
The idea came to Uwe after his 15-year-old
obese and asthmatic feline companion
was examined by a veterinarian,
who determined that she would soon die.
Shockingly, marrying an animal in Germany
doesn't exactly fly with the authorities.
So Uwe hired television actress Christin-Maria Lohri
to act as an unofficial officiator for their wedding.
Lohri was paid $428 for the job
after learning that it was indeed a real offer
and not just a weird joke.
Can you put the ring on her little
paw finger for me, thank you!
Uwe also invited his twin brother, Erik,
to be the best man and a witness to the events.
Tired and cold Cecilia
wore a cat-sized wedding dress
that she looked absolutely miserable in.
How exactly does a cat meow, I do?
Mee-I-do, meh?
Something like that.
Number nine is the Berlin Wall.
Ich bin ein crazy!
Eija-Riitta Berliner-Mauer was born in Sweden in 1954,
and was the first and only known person
to have married the Berlin Wall.
In 1961, when she was just seven years old,
Eija saw the wall's completion on television,
and fell in love with it, literally.
She began planning trips to Germany to visit the wall,
visiting it five times over the course of several years,
before finally deciding to get engaged.
During her sixth trip to Berlin
on June 17th, 1979, when she was 25 years old,
she married the concrete wall
and took the German surname
Berliner-Mauer, meaning Berlin Wall.
She fully devoted herself to the structure
in the name of love.
But sadly, the relationship ended
on June 13, 1990
after 11 years of marriage,
when the wall's demolition began.
Please don't take it down,
I like to snuggle with it at night!
Eija then became the wall's widow
and never again returned to Berlin.
'Cause she a crazy!
Number eight is a pillow.
I get it, you like to snuggle with your pillow.
But don't take it any farther than that, you weirdo.
Pillow talk has an intimate meaning for most people.
But for 35-year-old Lee Jin-gyu of South Korea,
pillow talk is literally how he communicates with his wife.
Lee owns a full-sized body pillow
with the image of a petite blonde anime character
named Fate Testarossa printed on it.
His friends have said that he is obsessed with the pillow,
bringing it with him wherever he goes.
And allowing it to sit on theme park rides,
and even trying to feed it its own meals.
Would you like some pork and beans,
or are you already stuffed? (laughs)
They had already been dating for six years
when they decided to tie the knot in Japan
in March, 2010, with the help of a priest
who somehow agreed to officiate the ceremony.
The pillow wore a wedding dress on the special day
and refused to eat any cake,
as she was already stuffed.
Hopefully married life is working out for Lee and Fate,
but even if it isn't, I'm sure their fights are fun.
Get it?
Number seven is a sex doll.
You know, love can be hard to come by.
But for Davecat, a 44-year old man
living in Detroit, Michigan,
who prefers to go by his online nickname,
he found love after filling out an online order form.
Since 2001, Davecat has been married to
a realistic sex doll he named Sidore.
Sidore cost him $5000, and was manufactured
with a silicone body and a posable PVC skeleton
by a company called Abyss Creations in California
who shipped her to Detroit in a crate.
Though she's only a lifeless doll,
Davecat has imagined an entire personality for her,
including her own religious beliefs,
her own heritage, accent, and interests.
And believe it or not,
Davecat purchased another sex doll
that he named Elena,
this time from a Russian company,
to act as his mistress
and a companion for Sidore
when he's away at work.
How thoughtful of him.
Number six is the Eiffel Tower.
Well these keep getting weirder!
45-year-old Erika LaBrie
is a former US Air Force cadet
and world champion archer,
but is most famous for being
the lady who married the Eiffel Tower.
Yeah, the one in Paris, France, that one.
LaBrie, who lives in San Francisco,
started a successful archery career back in 1999,
where she developed a strong relationship
with her competition bow named Lance.
I don't even wanna know what she did with that thing.
In 2004, she became extremely attracted to the Eiffel Tower.
And after a three-year relationship,
she decided to marry the 118-year-old iron tower in 2007.
Since her marriage to the giant tourist attraction,
that was attended, by the way, by her friends,
she has taken the surname La Tour Eiffel,
and set her sights on the Berlin Wall.
Oh God, not another one!
Erika now spends her days living in Berlin
and visiting Berlin Wall museums,
while remaining a dedicated spouse to her tower.
Ooh someone better call Jerry Springer,
'cause that tower's being cheated on
by that hussy Berlin Wall.
Better recognize!
Number five is an amusement park ride.
Rides at amusement parks can be a joy
to experience over and over again.
That is, of course, until it's time to go home.
But, Amy Wolfe of New York
has taken the joy of one ride
to obsessive lengths.
Amy fell deeply in love
with the ride called 1001 Nachts,
a $2 rotating gondola thrill ride
at Knoebels, an amusement park in Elysburg, Pennsylvania.
She's ridden Nachts over 3000 times
since they first met back in 1989,
when she was just 13.
Years later, she would make increasingly
frequent trips out to visit the ride.
And in 2009, she decided to join with it in marriage.
Since then, Amy has adopted the surname Weber,
after Nachts' manufacturer,
and has taken some of its spare nuts and bolts home
so that they can always be close.
She just wants to be close to its nuts.
As for the thousands of people
that ride 1001 Nachts every year,
Amy swears that she feels no jealousy towards them.
Oh yeah, that makes sense.
Maybe 'cause it's not alive!
Number four is a video game character.
When Nintendo created their
hand-held Nintendo DS game system,
I'm pretty sure they didn't envision
someone marrying a character in it.
In 2010, a man nicknamed Sal9000,
of course he named himself that,
held a wedding ceremony for himself
and his video game partner, Nene Anegasaki.
In case you're wondering, Nene is a character
from the Konami dating simulation game Love Plus,
which was released exclusively in Japan in 2009.
The wedding ceremony was held at
the Tokyo Institute of Technology,
and was attended by Sal's friends,
who described him as a virtual ladies' man.
Mm-hmm.
Prior to his committed relationship with Nene,
Sal was known for having a number of different
video game girlfriends.
Ah, but now that Sal has married his beloved,
he'll have to keep his wandering eyes away from
the newer and improved video game models.
You know what I'm saying?
He better keep that focus on his wife,
'cause she got batteries to charge.
Know what I'm saying?
Number three is a dolphin.
(dolphin chirping)
In December of 2005,
41-year-old British millionaire Sharon Tendler
got married to a male dolphin named Cindy,
short for Cinderella,
at Eilat Reef in southern Israel.
She had met Cindy 15 years earlier,
in what she described as
a love-at-first-sight scenario with the alpha dolphin,
who has become the father
of all the other dolphins in the area.
You were probably worried I was gonna say
the father of her children.
No, they would have been monsters.
Tendler, who lives in London,
would travel to Israel multiple times a year
ever since their first encounter,
eventually deciding that if she liked him so much,
then she had better put a ring on his flipper.
♪ If you like it then you better put a ♪
♪ (imitating dolphin chirp) on it ♪
Sharon held the wedding on a dock at the reef,
and gave Cindy a big old kiss,
followed by a piece of herring.
Sadly though, six months after the ceremony
Cindy became ill and passed away at the ripe old age of 40.
Ah that's a shame, perhaps if Tendler
had fallen in love sooner,
the wedding would have had served
a more youthful porpoise.
Sorry, I'll move on.
Number two is a stone.
Yep.
In March of 2016, Tracey Emin, an English artist,
declared at her art exhibition in Hong Kong
that she had married a stone in the summer of 2015.
Oh Matt, like Mick Jagger, like the Rolling Stones?
No, a physical rock.
She explained that the ordinary rock
is quite large, beautiful, and ancient,
and sits on a hill facing the sea by her studio in France.
Well it certainly sounds romantic,
but despite its inability
to reciprocate any feelings of love,
Emin says that the rock is her anchor in life,
and will never leave.
Yeah, that's 'cause it's a stone that can't move!
For the ceremony, Emin found a ring to wear,
and used her late father's white funeral shroud
as a wedding dress to marry the stone.
She says that no matter how unstable or crazy her life gets,
she knows that she can count on
the stone being there for her.
Still sitting patiently as it waits
for her to come back,
and the thought of it helps comfort her.
You know, isn't that really what we all want?
Love, someone to be your rock?
Moving on.
And number one is a photo of themselves.
On January 1st, 2007,
the locals of a village near Guanzhou, China
were treated to a confusing
but extravagant wedding ceremony,
for a man and a large photo cut-out of himself.
No, the man was not Kanye West.
Yes, 39-year-old Liu Ye chose to marry himself,
citing his dissatisfaction with reality as the motive.
Though he was just marrying a silly image,
he did not skip out on all the bells and whistles
of a traditional Chinese marriage ceremony.
Ye's friends attended the wedding in the village square,
where locals looked on and tried to decipher
what exactly was going on.
It's okay everybody, it's all right, he's just crazy.
Don't worry, it's contained craziness, we got this.
Ye could have chosen to marry an image
of pretty much anyone he wanted to,
but instead he chose to use one of himself
in a pretty red dress.
When asked why, he stated
that he's a little bit narcissistic.
Yeah, just a little bit!
Well, better hope it never rains,
'cause he's gonna have to attend a soggy funeral.
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