# Woman marries the Eiffel Tower **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 6, 2008, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-marries-the-eiffel-tower/451970 "2008-06-06T02:57:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2008, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-marries-the-eiffel-tower/451970/1 "2008-06-06T02:57:48Z")
Truth is stranger than fiction. From [The Telegraph](http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/2074301/Woman-with-objects-fetish-marries-Eiffel-Tower.html): > [@](#): > > Erika La Tour Eiffel, 37, a former soldier who lives in San Francisco, has been in love with objects before. Her first infatuation was with Lance, a bow that helped her to become a world-class archer, she is fond of the Berlin Wall and she claims to have a physical relationship with a piece of fence she keeps in her bedroom. > > But it is the Eiffel Tower she has pledged to love, honour and obey in an intimate ceremony attended by a handful of friends. I wonder what its vows were. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2008, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-marries-the-eiffel-tower/451970/2 "2008-06-06T03:07:29Z")
Any dude who fancies her after this is going to have a hard time…uh…“measuring up” 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2008, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-marries-the-eiffel-tower/451970/3 "2008-06-06T03:12:50Z")
I saw a similar article recently about the Mrs Berlin Wall referred to in your link. I wonder if she considers herself a widow now that the Wall has been torn down? ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2008, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-marries-the-eiffel-tower/451970/4 "2008-06-06T03:28:38Z")
That Leaning Tower of Pisa… he’s quite the catch. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2008, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-marries-the-eiffel-tower/451970/5 "2008-06-06T04:31:00Z")
> [@](#): > > But it is the Eiffel Tower she has pledged to love, honour and obey in an intimate ceremony attended by a handful of friends. Falling in love with the Eiffel Tower; does she really expect that to work out? It’s completely and utterly nuts. He’ll never leave the Arc de Triomphe and she knows it. ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2008, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-marries-the-eiffel-tower/451970/6 "2008-06-06T04:42:47Z")
It’s certainly a riveting story. ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2008, 6:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-marries-the-eiffel-tower/451970/7 "2008-06-06T06:34:58Z")
[QUOTE=Cunctator] I saw a similar article recently about the Mrs Berlin Wall referred to in your link. I wonder if she considers herself a widow now that the Wall has been torn down? [/QUOTE] I remember reading about her about 8 years ago. At the time her webpage explained that she (Mrs. Berliner-Mauer) was previously engaged to a guillotine that she had built in her living room, but the engagement ended and subsequently she married the Berlin wall. Her webpage ( [Köp mobil, bredband & tv i Sveriges bästa nät | Telenor](http://www.algonet.se/~giljotin/eija.html) ) doesn’t seem to have as much information as it did when I first saw it back then. P.S. I seem to recall her saying at the time that the dismantling of the Berlin wall in 1989 had not invalidated her marriage. ---
**Author:** ![BellRungBookShut-CandleSnuffed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bcef8e/32.png) [@BellRungBookShut-CandleSnuffed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BellRungBookShut-CandleSnuffed)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2008, 9:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-marries-the-eiffel-tower/451970/8 "2008-06-06T09:47:08Z")
It’s going to take some iron constitution to make that marriage work. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2008, 10:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-marries-the-eiffel-tower/451970/9 "2008-06-06T10:04:46Z")
“Her first infatuation was with Lance, a bow that helped her to become a world-class archer, she is fond of the Berlin Wall and she claims to have a physical relationship with a piece of fence she keeps in her bedroom.” I’m concerned about that piece of fence. Besides the question of splinters, I wonder if she should still be seeing it on the side now that she’s married. Of course, the Eiffel Tower being French, it could be in the mood for a good old-fashioned _menage a trois._ ---
**Author:** ![PunditLisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2008, 10:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-marries-the-eiffel-tower/451970/10 "2008-06-06T10:48:51Z")
Someone should have told Mrs. Eiffel that sometimes a tower is just a tower. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Scrivener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@The\_Scrivener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Scrivener)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2008, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-marries-the-eiffel-tower/451970/11 "2008-06-06T19:01:39Z")
I presume she expects to be _elevated_ on her wedding night? I wish her well, but you know this marriage, like any other, will have its ups and downs. Especially given her current fence-sitting. [d&r] Her upstanding hubby will need a steely resolve to put up with her architectural groupie ways. (I wouldn’t be surprised if, during this summer’s Beijing Olympics, she were to develop a crush on the Great Wall of China.) And if she lets him do the cooking, she’s going to need an iron constitution… ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2008, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-marries-the-eiffel-tower/451970/12 "2008-06-06T19:06:21Z")
So if she’s still married to the Berlin wall does that make her a polygamist? ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2008, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-marries-the-eiffel-tower/451970/13 "2008-06-06T19:06:22Z")
[QUOTE=BellRungBookShut-CandleSnuffed] It’s going to take some iron constitution to make that marriage work. [/QUOTE] Which is why she girders her loins. ---
**Author:** ![Baldwin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baldwin/32/7264_2.png) [@Baldwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baldwin)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2008, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-marries-the-eiffel-tower/451970/14 "2008-06-06T19:09:07Z")
Well, at least she’ll always know where to find him. ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2008, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-marries-the-eiffel-tower/451970/15 "2008-06-06T19:49:35Z")
[QUOTE=Antinor01] So if she’s still married to the Berlin wall does that make her a polygamist? [/QUOTE] The lady in the OP (Erika la Tour Eiffel) is married to the Eiffel tower and was never married to the Berlin wall - she is just fond of it. The lady who is married to the Berlin wall is a different person (Eija-Riitta Berliner-Mauer). ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2008, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-marries-the-eiffel-tower/451970/16 "2008-06-06T19:54:40Z")
[QUOTE=Arnold Winkelried] The lady in the OP (Erika la Tour Eiffel) is married to the Eiffel tower and was never married to the Berlin wall - she is just fond of it. The lady who is married to the Berlin wall is a different person (Eija-Riitta Berliner-Mauer). [/QUOTE] Ahh. In that case, it sounds like a relationship would should all aSpire to. I’m sure their love towers over all others. ---
**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2008, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-marries-the-eiffel-tower/451970/17 "2008-06-06T21:03:21Z")
Her love must be building. ---
**Author:** ![Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freddy_the_Pig)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2008, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-marries-the-eiffel-tower/451970/18 "2008-06-06T21:16:16Z")
Has she consummated the marriage yet? And if so, how? Is there a family in their future–perhaps a cell antenna tower, or a frisky little water tower? ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2008, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-marries-the-eiffel-tower/451970/19 "2008-06-06T23:33:27Z")
[QUOTE=Freddy the Pig] Has she consummated the marriage yet? And if so, how? [/QUOTE] Very carefully. ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2008, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-marries-the-eiffel-tower/451970/20 "2008-06-06T23:36:45Z")
[QUOTE=ultrafilter] I wonder what its vows were. [/QUOTE] “Till rust us do part,” obviously. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/woman-marries-the-eiffel-tower/451970.md?page=2)