What do you think you will do when you reach 100? That is, if you get centenary, of course ... A retired Royal Air Force fitness instructor from the UK decided it was time to marry his girlfriend.

In 1988, George Kirby met Doreen Luckie through an organization that helps older people form friends. George had just divorced his wife. Doreen had just been widowed after 36 years of marriage. Since then, the two have been dating.

George and Doreen met in 1988 and started dating

The request

Two years later, the two went to live in the same nursing home run by one of George's sons. After 27 years of dating, the "new" couple's children suggested that they could get married. On this year's Valentine's Day - February 14, the date on which Valentine's Day is celebrated in the Northern Hemisphere - George made the proposal.

"We were having dinner and I asked Doreen if she wanted to marry myself for a short while, " said the fiancé in love. "I was so happy she said yes, " he added. The two made the union official last Saturday, George's 103rd birthday - Doreen is 91.

Link was made official last Saturday (13)

The union had about 50 guests and a representative of the Guinnes Book, which will include the lovebirds as “The World's Oldest Grooms”. Together they were 194 years old and 281 days on the day of the bond. Both George and Doreen's children celebrated their parents' decision. In all, they have seven children, 15 grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren!

And she still had a bachelorette party, believe me? It was a lunch with her bridesmaids showered with laughter. George is so in love that he often says that Doreen keeps him young.

Live long and prosper

In addition to being a physical education instructor at the RAF from 1933 to 1958, George was a great boxer - he won all 60 fights he participated in. In 2009, he was the British Army guest of honor for a boxing match and a charity dinner. After leaving the army, he still worked as a restaurant manager, driver, and gardener. He only stopped exercising at age 94 - he used to lift a few dumbbells every day.

Doreen worked most of her life as a shorthand typist for the English prosecutor. He even registered important lawsuits in the country during his career. To this day, she often exercises by doing seaside yoga at least once a week.

"I can definitely say that we will spend the rest of our lives together, " George said at the wedding.

Wedding gifts? Of course not...

And the elderly couple surprised a lot of people by saying they didn't want wedding gifts. At least not for them ... George and Doreen have solicited donations from institutions they are supportive of: the Air Force Association and an NGO for women from the Royal Naval Service. Inspiring!

Via In Summary.