Loved-up George Kirby will be 103 when he ties the knot with 91-year-old Doreen Luckie – his girlfriend of 27 years – in June.
George said: “I suppose it’s about time, really. I definitely don’t feel my age. Doreen keeps me young.
“I didn’t get down on one knee, because I don’t think I would have been able to get back up.”
Doreen added: “I won’t be much of a blushing bride, but I’m getting a bit giddy thinking about it.”
The pair will become the oldest bride and groom in world history, beating the previous record of 190 years and 126 days set by a French couple in 2002.
George and Doreen, who have been an item since 1988, decided to make their union official after pressure from their elderly children.
Between them the pair have had seven children, 15 grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.
George, 102, proposed on Valentine’s Day and will marry for the third time on June 13, his birthday.
He said: “We were having dinner and I asked Doreen if she wanted to be married to me for a short time. I was so happy that she said yes.”
The couple, who now live in a hotel in Eastbourne, East Sussex, started courting in 1988, when they met through an organisation to find friends for mature people.
George, then 76, had just got divorced, while Doreen had become a widow three years earlier following 36 years of marriage.
She said: “He used to come to my house. We got on straight away. He liked the roses in my front garden.”
The pair will get married in the hotel owned by George’s son Neil, where they have lived since 2013.
Neil, 63, who will be best man, said: “We’ve adopted Doreen as our mum and we’re delighted that she’s going to become a Kirby.
“It’s about time my dad has finally made an honest woman out of her. However, I have told him that I don’t want him popping his clogs on the big day.”
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