--- title: Elderly Marriage: English Man Will Get Married at Age 103 description: George Kirby, 102, and Doreen Luckie, 91, have been together for 27 years canonical: https://time.com/3835573/elderly-couple-marriage/ author: Sam Frizell article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-04-25T16:02:53.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:19:08.182Z og:title: This Elderly Couple That's Finally Getting Married Will Restore Your Belief in Love og:description: George Kirby, 102, and Doreen Luckie, 91, have been together for 27 years og:url: https://time.com/3835573/elderly-couple-marriage/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: This Elderly Couple That's Finally Getting Married Will Restore Your Belief in Love twitter:description: George Kirby, 102, and Doreen Luckie, 91, have been together for 27 years twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # This Elderly Couple That's Finally Getting Married Will Restore Your Belief in Love by [Sam Frizell](https://time.com/author/sam-frizell/) ## Sam Frizell Apr 25, 2015 4:02 PM UTC by [Sam Frizell](https://time.com/author/sam-frizell/) ## Sam Frizell Apr 25, 2015 4:02 PM UTC This couple certainly didn’t rush into marriage. George Kirby, 102, and Doreen Luckie, 91, are [finally tying the knot ](http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/11561049/You-old-romantic-George-103-to-be-Britains-oldest-groom-after-finally-popping-the-question.html)shortly after Kirby’s upcoming 103rd birthday. The English couple has been together for 27 years, and after much pressure from their elderly children, they have finally decided to get serious. “I didn’t get down on one knee, because I don’t think I would have been able to get back up,” Kirby said, the _Telegraph_ reports. The pair lives in a hotel in Eastbourne, East Sussex, and met in 1988 through an organization that helps seniors find friends. Kirby is a former boxer, physical education instructor, restaurant manager and gardener; Luckie spent much of her life as a typist. See the couple in an interview here. \[[_Telegraph_](http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/11561049/You-old-romantic-George-103-to-be-Britains-oldest-groom-after-finally-popping-the-question.html)\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3835573/elderly-couple-marriage/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3835573/elderly-couple-marriage/"},"headline":"This Elderly Couple That's Finally Getting Married Will Restore Your Belief in Love","datePublished":"2015-04-25T16:02:53.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:19:08.182Z","description":"Better late than never","url":"https://time.com/3835573/elderly-couple-marriage/","keywords":["Newsfeed","relationships"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Sam Frizell","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/sam-frizell/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3835573/elderly-couple-marriage/","name":"This Elderly Couple That's Finally Getting Married Will Restore Your Belief in Love"}}]}] ```