A 102-year-old Lithuanian man has become the Baltic country's oldest recorded bridegroom after tying the knot with his 76-year-old fiancée.
Stanislovas Grigas and his bride Brone Mikutiene were married on Saturday in a ceremony in Kaunas, Lithuania's second city.
‘As far as I know, until now Lithuania has never seen a bridegroom of such a solid age,’ Kestutis Ignatavicius, the master of ceremonies at Kaunas City Hall, who married the couple, said.
‘It may even be a European record,’ Mr Ignatavicius added.
Lithuanian statistics show that the country's previous oldest groom was an 84-year-old who was married in 1986.
The oldest recorded bride, meanwhile, was an 80-year-old whose wedding took place in 1991.
Mr Grigas and Ms Mikutiene have reportedly known each other since 1972, when Mr Grigas was still married to his first wife.
Ms Mikutiene helped him around the house after his wife died in 1992 and his two sons passed away in 1995 and 2006.
She has been living in Mr Grigas' house since this spring.
It was reportedly Mr Grigas' idea to get married. ‘The main decisions in the family are taken by him, and I usually agree with him,’ Ms Mikutiene said.
