Being free to choose who to marry

“I am planning to get married again soon and this time I want to wear a white wedding dress. Some people might want to say that I am big and all that but I want it. For me, it is important because it is what I always dream of.”

These are the words of a woman in her 40s, with adult children. It will be her second marriage, but for her it is like her first. I have known her for many years and in part I understand why she wants to have that ‘white dress’ marriage.

“It is not like I want a big wedding or anything. No, no, it is just that I want my white dress,” she stressed. “When I get married first it was just signing, no wedding dress, no nothing and looking back right now is like I was force to do it. I would say I was still a child and now this is me decision and I want to have the dress.