I learned that in Japan a travel agency offers to arrange self marriage ceremonies, and in California, two jewelers, Jeffrey Levin and Bonnie Powers who have a business called “I Married Me,” offer something called the Self-Wedding In-A-Box kit. Mr. Levin and Ms. Powers first heard of the practice from a friend who had performed ceremonies in the desert. "She had been doing it at Burning Man," Mr. Levin said. She told them self-marriage ceremonies had sprung up there in the late 1990s, but she also knew of ceremonies performed in the 1970s. "There is an African tribe that had it as part of their culture," he said. "This friend did it for us. There were about 14 people in our backyard … in Los Angeles." Later Mr. Levin and Ms. Powers married
