As an independent 21st century woman, I have often wondered what would motivate me to invest thousands of pounds, endure wearing white for a whole day and probably make a fool of myself in front of my nearest and dearest for the sake of a certificate. In this day and age, all of the traditional reasons why a woman would need to get married seem somewhat obsolete. As an unattached female you can buy a house, go on holiday, even live with a man and have children without anyone batting an eyelid, so why go through the rigmarole of ‘getting hitched’? To get some answers, I decided to talk to the wisest woman in the world, my Gran, who survived marriage for over 60 years. I also went to the people who know the most about the downsides (and could there possibly be benefits?) to marriage, the lovely people at ‘Relate’. Hear what happened when I tried to get to the bottom of what marriage really means in 2007. | 
