Bernie Littman, aged 100, and Marjorie Fiterman, aged 102, have officially become the world’s oldest newlyweds, setting a Guinness World Record with a combined age of 202 years. The couple, who fell in love after they moved onto the same floor of a senior living facility in Philadelphia, set a world record for the oldest couple to marry when they tied the knot on May 19 after nine years of dating, Guinness World Records shared last week. Littman’s granddaughter Sarah Sicherman shared the couple’s sweet love story with TODAY.com in June 2024. The pair met at a party at their retirement centre and had their first date the same day. It was a second marriage for both the bride and groom. “We’re just so happy that he’s found someone that he loves spending time with,” Sicherman said of her grandfather. “It’s adorable that they have decided to do this,” she added. Sicherman described the marriage at the time as “spur of the moment.” Fiterman had broken her leg in a fall. “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,” Sicherman said. About 10 family members attended the traditional Jewish wedding. There were cheers when Littman, who uses a wheelchair, was able to stand and break the glass with his foot as is customary at the end of the ceremony. “It isn’t often that I am asked to preside at the wedding of a bride and groom who have each lived for more than a century (actually, this is the only time it has ever happened),” Rabbi Adam Wohlberg wrote about the experience online. “The fact that they found love again is heartwarming.”
(Picture Courtesy: Sarah Sicherman)
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