90-year-old groom marries his 96-year-old sweetheart
Bill and Flo Griffiths have a combined age of 186
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Your support makes all the difference.A couple with a combined age of 186 have become two of the world's oldest newlyweds.
Bill Griffiths, 90, tied the knot with Flo Marshallsay, 96, on Saturday 16.
He proposed to her over a cup of tea on the sofa last month.
More than 50 friends and family witnessed the couple's marriage at St Hilda's Church in Smethwick, where Reverend Paul Hinton blessed "two people whose combined ages would make a very good cricket score".
Ms Griffiths told ITV News: "The Reverend was mentioning all these countries and I didn't know what he was on about. Then I worked out they have all been saying we're the oldest people to get married."
The Daily Mail reports that Mr Griffiths said: "At the wedding reception in the hotel they played Wish Me Luck As You Wave Me Goodbye from my Navy days. It was because Prince Phillip was my commanding officer on a destroyer in the war.
"Flo is very special to me and I am a very lucky man."
The couple met at a dance club in 1982.
They became close after Bill lost his wife Joan to cancer, aged 75, in 1997, and Ms Marshallsay started bringing him food and cooking his meals.
Mr Griffiths worked as a torpedo operator during World War II, while Ms Griffiths is a former pub landlady.
At the couple's hotel reception, they fell asleep on the sofa, before heading home early to feed their cat.
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