An Australian photographer has revealed why she decided to marry sixty of her friends in a three-day ceremony near Brisbane last month. Carly Sare, who hails from South Australia , exchanged vows, rituals, dances and blessings with the 60 'loves of her life' in a vibrant celebration of platonic love . She said: "As a wedding photographer, I spend my life at weddings , and I've noticed that in a culture that is rather barren for rituals, weddings are a place where they abound.
"We know how to show up for weddings. We travel, take time off work and dress up. When you gather a bunch of people, and look at something with a shared intention, something powerful happens.
Some kind of alchemy (beyond the legal binding bit) occurs, that galvanises things and changes their colour in the most beautiful way. "I used to have some icks around marriage. When the marriage equality laws came through those icks got quieter, and I realised; I'm not against marriage, I just felt funny about the way we prioritise some loves over others.
We still seem to prioritise romantic-monogamous love above other loves. "And yet, for me, many of the greatest loves of my life, my great partnerships, have turned out to be my dear friends." Carly, 40, decided to express her profound commitment and respect for these 'deep, enduring loves' by publicly acknowledging their importance and her intention to continue loving them 'on purpose' through the seasons, distance, and decades of her life.
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