{"id":338432,"date":"2017-12-08T06:12:34","date_gmt":"2017-12-08T05:12:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/british-woman-proposes-to-chandelier-she-found-on-ebay-rt-uk-news\/"},"modified":"2017-12-08T06:12:34","modified_gmt":"2017-12-08T05:12:34","slug":"british-woman-proposes-to-chandelier-she-found-on-ebay-rt-uk-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/british-woman-proposes-to-chandelier-she-found-on-ebay-rt-uk-news\/","title":{"rendered":"British woman proposes to chandelier she found on Ebay \u2014 RT UK News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdni.rt.com\/files\/2017.12\/thumbnail\/5a295e65fc7e93aa738b4569.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><time class=\"date date_article-header\">Published time: 7 Dec, 2017 16:21 <\/time><\/p>\n<p>        A British woman is about to marry the light of her life after meeting her online\u2026 but it isn\u2019t your average relationship. Amanda Liberty has proposed to a 90-year-old chandelier she found on Ebay.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article__text text  js-mediator-article\">\n<p>Leeds woman Amanda Liberty is engaged to marry \u2018Lumiere,\u2019 a Baccarat crystal chandelier 53 years her senior. \u00a3400 in shipping costs later, the 33-year-old woman now showers the nearly 70cm-wide chandelier with kisses and cuddles, and even proposed to the light fitting on Valentine\u2019s Day.<\/p>\n<p>But her romantic affection doesn\u2019t stop at just one ornate light fitting. At night Liberty cuddles up with an entirely different light fitting \u2013 a smaller chandelier named Jewel.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, she is in an open relationship with no less than 25 different light fittings. Luckily, Lumiere doesn\u2019t seem to mind \u2013 after all, it\u2019s the one with the ring.<\/p>\n<div class=\"rtcode\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">33-year-old Leeds woman Amanda Liberty is engaged to a chandelier she met nearly a year ago. and after 7 years I can&#8217;t get my boyfriend to propose! Clearly I don&#8217;t light up his life enough. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HMG4su16jm\">pic.twitter.com\/HMG4su16jm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rachel Lang (@rlangjournalist) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rlangjournalist\/status\/938793146741387264?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 7, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>\u201cNone of my chandeliers are jealous of each other. They understand that I love them all for their different personalities. For example, I love kissing and cuddling Lumiere, but I sleep with Jewel every night as she is portable and very nice to cuddle.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cLast Valentine\u2019s Day I proposed to [Lumiere], to signify our long-lasting love,&#8221;<\/em> Liberty told the Metro.<em> \u201cI haven\u2019t been engaged before, so it\u2019s very new and exciting!\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n<p>33-year-old Liberty is an \u2018object sexual,\u2019 in other words, she\u2019s romantically attracted to objects. She said she first realized that she was sexually attracted to items when she fell in love with a drum kit at the youthful age of 14. As an adult, she fell in love with the Statue of Liberty and even changed her name by deed poll to Liberty.<\/p>\n<p>When asked why she decided to shine a light on her out-of-the-ordinary relationship, she said she wanted<em> \u201cothers to see how happy the chandeliers make me, and how much they\u2019ve enriched my life.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI\u2019m not hurting anyone by entering into a relationship with them,\u201d <\/em>she added.<em> \u201cI am simply just following my heart.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Although the Church of England and the law will not recognize their love affair, Liberty said she hopes the two can be joined in a commitment ceremony.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/uk\/412339-woman-leeds-marry-chandelier\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=RSS\">RT<\/a>. This piece was reprinted by <a href=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\">RINF Alternative News<\/a> with permission or license.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Published time: 7 Dec, 2017 16:21 A British woman is about to marry the light of her life after meeting her online\u2026 but it isn\u2019t your average relationship. Amanda Liberty has proposed to a 90-year-old chandelier she found on Ebay. Leeds woman Amanda Liberty is engaged to marry \u2018Lumiere,\u2019 a Baccarat crystal chandelier 53 years [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":338433,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-338432","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338432\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/338433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}