We Tried to Marry in Every Country Until a Tragic Diagnosis
Et Alors? which means "so what?" in French. At one point, we reached about 750,000 readers worldwide because it was in English.We understood that we had a voice and that with that voice also came a responsibility.
So, we thought: What else could we do? At the time, we went for dinner with some friends and realized that although they were very open-minded, they did not know that me and Julian could only get married in 22 countries.That night, I woke Julian up and said: "What if we get married in all the countries where it's possible to get married?" In the morning, the idea stuck, and we began thinking about how we could get started.We didn't have the money to marry 22 times because the biggest cost was transportation and logistics.
But we figured that if we sold everything that we had, we would be able to marry symbolically in five countries, which meant that we'd have the wedding ceremony without signing the papers, as we already legally got married in 2015.
We hoped that after the fifth country, there would be an airline or bus company who would be willing to sponsor us, or that we could sleep on people's couches.We took a leap of faith, and we sold everything that we had.
