A fairytale and an adventure is how the world's oldest newly weds described their Irish St Valentine's Day church wedding.
93-year-old James Mason and 84-year-old Peggy Clarke Mason from Devon in England, who married in a civil ceremony last November, re-tied the knot at a special church ceremony in St Mary's Church of Ireland in Killarney today.
The two, who were both widowed, met at a day care centre last November. Three days later James proposed and they were married in a civil ceremony within three weeks.
Local Church of Ireland Rev Sue Watterson said the couple had decided to be married in a church because they were disappointed with the vows exchanged during the civil ceremony and wanted something more meaningful.
They choose Killarney because Peggy had lived there for a brief spell after her first husband died. She had been married for 29 years.
James was married for 50 years and has two grown up children.
Both say it was love at first sight and the best cure ever for loneliness.
The happy couple now plan to drive their camper van to Scotland to visit her homeplace.
And having mastered motorways, they plan to come to grips with driving on the right hand side and maybe some day they will travel as far as continental Europe.
