By Perewarri Precious
Love knows no age limit, and Bernie Litman (100 years old) and Marjorie Fittman (102 years old) are living proof.
A hundred-year-old couple who found love in an elderly living facility have officially become the world’s oldest newlyweds at the age of 202, the Guinness World Record revealed on Tuesday.
Both Marjorie and Barney were said to have lived over 60 years of marriage with their first spouse, but when their spouse passed away they moved to the same floor of a senior living facility in Philadelphia, America, where neither of them could find new love just a few doors down. I did not expect it.The two reportedly bonded by sharing meals and participating in the work of the retired community.
Bernie believes in reading and keeping up to date on his long life and happiness, but Marjorie believes her in buttermilk.
The GWR report states: “After 9 years of relationship, they tied the knot on 5/19, making them the oldest couple (aggregate age) to marry at a combined age of 202 and 271 days.
Bernie hit it off as soon as Marjorie when they first met at a masquerade party on their floor, and the romance began shortly after — they had their first date on the same day one of his great-grandchildren was born.
“When they attended the University of Pennsylvania at the same time, they could both have crossed paths years ago, but life seemingly changed that makes us wait.” “
“They studied different degrees — Barney became an engineer, Marjorie became a teacher – and never met before that fateful day.”
The ceremony was said to have been held in the same senior living facility where they first met.
While Bernie and Marjorie were escorted to the altar in wheelchairs, four generations of Bernie’s family were joined by loved ones holding traditional Jewish wedding canopies — chuppah, and Adam Walberg, who hosted the wedding to celebrate, told Fox News that he did not want to offer the usual advice to the couple to do. But Bernie and Marjorie said, “Eventually it started to feel like being a husband and wife, not just a close friend, was the right step to take..”
