98-year-old's wedding to 94-year-old will renew your belief in love

A 98-year-old woman who wed a 94-year-old man has everyone believing in love.

Meet newlyweds Gertrude Mokotoff and Alvin Mann, whose wedding was featured Friday in the Vows section of the New York Times, to the delight of the internet.

The sprightly couple was introduced eight years ago at a gym in Middletown, N.J. “A mutual friend said to me, ‘I’d like you to meet a very nice young lady,’” Mann told the New York Times, “after chopping wood one recent morning…”

Reflecting on their first meal together at local restaurant Something Sweet, Mokotoff, who was Middletown’s first female mayor (she served two terms) told the Times of her date, “He was a perfect gentleman.”

Mann, a businessman and the oldest person to graduate from Mount St. Mary College, was unfazed by their May to December romance. “I kept getting teased about dating a cougar,” he said. “But the age difference never really bothered me because we just hit it off, and I wasn’t about to let her go.”

However it was Mokotoff who truly broke barriers with a marriage proposal one night after driving home from New York City. “I asked him to marry me,” she told the Times. “I was tired of chasing after him.”

On August 5, two weeks of ahead of Mokotoff’s 99th birthday, the pair wed at Middletown City Hall before 50 guests, Mokotoff holding a bouquet of white roses while she walked down the aisle to “Somewhere Over the Rainbow.”

During the ceremony, Mann couldn’t resist sharing an anecdote about the couple’s first time getting intimate. “We had spent the whole day together, and at night, I set up the bedroom for her, and I was going to be in the next room,” he told the Times. “She gets into the bed, and I say good night and start walking out, and she says, ‘Where are you going?’”

Mann’s neighbor also lovingly described the couple: “This man is 94 years old, and I see him outside chopping down trees, dragging logs out of the woods with his old Ford tractor, stacking firewood and cutting the grass. Then I see him and Gert running around like two high school sweethearts, holding hands and kissing, and driving to New York City on weekends. If I didn’t see it with my own eyes, I wouldn’t believe it.”

The wedding reception was held at a nearby inn where Mokotoff pulled up her skirt to flash her garter belt. “Very nice,” Mann said, according to the Times. “I must admit I like it.”

The couple is one of many examples of those who found love late in life. In July, the story of 70-year-old Murphy Wilson and his 67-year-old bride, Lucinda Myers, went viral after the groom’s daughter posted their exuberant engagement photos on Instagram, including one of him holding up a sign that read, “She said YES!!!”

Their Huntsville, Ala., nuptials also made headlines for these adorable anecdotes: When Myers walked down the aisle, Wilson became so stunned by the sight of his bride that the pastor had to intervene by saying, “Go get her!” Their wedding kiss also lasted nearly 90 seconds.

In April, 89-year-old Doris Ladner and 84-year-old Robert Holler got married at the same Mississippi nursing home at which they met. Staff said the pair, who both use wheelchairs, always held hands and that Holler brings Ladner a cup of coffee each morning.

And in 2016, less than a year after they met at a Miami nursing home, Maria Teresa Cobar, 80, and Carlos Suarez, 90, tied the knot. The pair had a whirlwind courtship filled with arts and crafts activities, dancing (with Suarez in his wheelchair), and watching sunsets. Cobar told Today that her groom was someone “worth waiting for.”

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