‘i married myself on my 40th birthday’

Danni Adams had always seen weddings as a party for the bride, so she made some unusual plans of her own…

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As I push my pram, my baby sleeping, it takes me a moment to realise that someone is talking to me. Another mum, on the way to the same baby class, is asking how I am, and I stammer as I push my phone