<p>What is unusual about her plan is that there will be no groom, the TVBS cable news channel reported.<br /><br />Chen Ching, 45, a popular therapist from the central county of Nantou who has published a number of books, said she spent two months preparing for her wedding in full, traditional Taiwan style.<br /><br />It is to include lighting firecrackers, serving gluttonous rice dumplings, giving out Taiwan wedding cakes and sending out invitations to friends and relatives for her wedding banquet, she said.<br /><br />"It is a new life experience I must have," she said.<br /><br />She said she felt lucky she was able to "meet myself and fall in love with myself".<br /><br />Chen said her wedding would be held on the first day of the New Year when Taiwan is to also celebrate its 100th year as a republic.<br /><br />Chen plans to put on a wedding gown, wait for a limousine she is to hire to take her from her home in Mingchien to Sun Moon Lake in Nantou, where her self-wedding is to be staged.<br /><br />Chen would not be the only woman to marry herself. Last month, a 30-year-old Taipei office worker held her self-wedding after thinking that it was about time for her to get married, even though she had yet to find Mr Right.<br /></p>
<p>What is unusual about her plan is that there will be no groom, the TVBS cable news channel reported.<br /><br />Chen Ching, 45, a popular therapist from the central county of Nantou who has published a number of books, said she spent two months preparing for her wedding in full, traditional Taiwan style.<br /><br />It is to include lighting firecrackers, serving gluttonous rice dumplings, giving out Taiwan wedding cakes and sending out invitations to friends and relatives for her wedding banquet, she said.<br /><br />"It is a new life experience I must have," she said.<br /><br />She said she felt lucky she was able to "meet myself and fall in love with myself".<br /><br />Chen said her wedding would be held on the first day of the New Year when Taiwan is to also celebrate its 100th year as a republic.<br /><br />Chen plans to put on a wedding gown, wait for a limousine she is to hire to take her from her home in Mingchien to Sun Moon Lake in Nantou, where her self-wedding is to be staged.<br /><br />Chen would not be the only woman to marry herself. Last month, a 30-year-old Taipei office worker held her self-wedding after thinking that it was about time for her to get married, even though she had yet to find Mr Right.<br /></p>