The 102-year-old bride held her new husband’s hand. The groom, 100, tenderly touched his head to hers. Marjorie Fiterman and Bernie Littman got married on May 19 in Philadelphia, nine years after they met at a party in their retirement community.
They had their first date later that same day and have been together since. With a combined age of 202, their families believe they’re now the oldest living married couple and have contacted Guinness World Records to make it official. The pair had never talked about marriage until recently when Fiterman broke her leg from a fall, which seemed to shake Littman, his granddaughter says.
“There was kind of that moment of ‘I don’t want to live without you,’ and so it was just a ‘Why don’t we get married?’ sort of thing,” Sarah Sicherman, 39, tells TODAY.com. “It was kind of spur of the moment.
At first, we thought that it was a joke, but then they just continued to go through with it and took all the necessary steps.” Their families thought they’d opt for an informal ceremony without making it an official legal union, but the centenarians took it very seriously, “wanted to go fully in” and applied for a marriage license, Sicherman notes. When her grandfather found out Allegheny County in Pennsylvania could issue a marriage license in the fastest time, he went that route and took care of all the paperwork on his own, she adds.
The couple had to get new photo identification cards because both had expired licens.
