UNCONVENTIONAL WORLD RECORDS

UPDATE 12 March 2010

Then there’s the case of Lee Jin-gyu, 28 of Korea who recently “married” his pillow which features an image of Fate Testarossa, a girl in the anime series Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha:

In a stunning wedding ceremony, he even equipped the pillow with a white wedding dress:

A friend was quoted to have said:

He is completely obsessed with this pillow and takes it everywhere. They go out to the park or the funfair where it will go on all the rides with him. Then when he goes out to eat he takes it with him and it gets its own seat and its own meal.

Video:

Source:
Metro UK, 9th March 2010

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13 January 2010

This is probably the most bizarre “marriage” ever, if it can even be called that.

Eija-Riitta Berliner-Mauer (born 1954) of Sweden was reported in 2008 to have claimed that she has been married to the Berlin Wall since 1979.

Yes, THE Berlin Wall in Germany, which was demolished in 1989.

Eija-Riitta with her then-boyfriend in 1978:

How is that even possible, you ask? Well, apparently she has this condition called “objectùm-sexual” (OS), where basically it’s a fetish for a non-living object. In fact, those with this condition would be horrified to even entertain the thought of having a relationship with a real person.

Apparently, there are about 40 persons in the world who are OS, all women.

She explains this condition in detail here.

In her own words:

I find long, slim things with horizontal lines very sexy. The Great Wall of China’s attractive, but he’s too thick – my husband is sexier.

Excerpts from her website:

This is my husband. His name is the Berlin Wall and he was born on August 13, 1961. I expect you’ve heard of him; he is quite a celebrity. He lives in Berlin. …My husband’s job was to divide East and West Berlin. He is retired now. We’ve been in love for many years. I was attracted to him ever since he was born. Yes, he is some years younger than me. But neither of us feels that this age difference matters. True love can easily transcend a few years. It was very much a long distance romance as neither of us likes to travel. For much of the time, I had to make do with photos of him. And of course seeing him in newspapers and on the television. But the distance between us only served to intensify our feelings for each other. We eventually married on June 17, 1979 at Groß-Ziethener Straße in Berlin. On that day I took my husband’s name, Berliner-Mauer. That is “Berlin Wall” in German, which is my husband’s first language. We have been together now for many years, spiritually if not physically. Like every married couple, we have our ups and downs. We even made it through the terrible disaster of November 9, 1989, when my husband was subjected to frenzied attacks by a mob. But we are still as much in love as the day we first met. We may not have a conventional marriage, but neither of us cares much for conventions. Ours is a story of two beings in love, our souls entwined for all eternity.

It was on her 6th visit that they “tied the knot”, complete with wedding guests.

On that fateful day in 1989, she said: “What they did was awful. They mutilated my husband.”

Nowadays, she is apparently in love with a garden fence near her home.

Then there’s Erika La Tour Eiffel, 39, of San Francisco, a former soldier who married the Eiffel Tower in 2008:

Before settling down with the world-famous structure, she had flings with an archer’s bow and a piece of fence that was kept in her room.

Hmm… on the positive side, at least these women’s “husbands” would never pester them to go on a weight loss diet.

Source
Telegraph (UK), 4 Jun 2008

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