A 100-year-old man and a 102-year-old woman have tied the Guinness World Record for becoming the world’s oldest newlyweds.
Bernie Littman and Marjorie Fitterman met at a costume party at their senior living home in Philadelphia and fell in love.
They got married at the facility where they both live on May 19. UPI
The couple later discovered that they had both been students at the University of Philadelphia at the same time but never crossed paths in their academic lives.
Littman’s granddaughter Sarah Secherman said The Jewish Chronicle that the couple were “so lucky to have found each other and supported each other, especially during the pandemic”.
Secherman also wrote on her social media that Littman and Fitterman “both spent over 60 years married to their first spouses and found love again at age 100!”
The rabbi who officiated the wedding said Fox News The couple eventually realized that “making not just close friends – but husband and wife – felt like the right step”.
Littman attributed his long life to reading and staying up-to-date on world events, while Fitterman attributed his old age to buttermilk.
“They both love each other’s humor and intelligence,” Secherman told Guinness World Records, “they keep each other young”.