I'm a 79-Year Old Virgin and I'm Getting Married

Margaret* knew exactly how she wanted her wedding day to go and what she wanted to wear, which was definitely not the traditional white gown. In fact, there was no wedding dress shopping at all. She didn't go to a bridal store with a group of her closest friends and family. There was no teary-eyed moment where she said yes to the dress. Instead, she bought her wedding attire from a catalog without even trying on the clothes first. She will be wearing a long white skirt with one ruffle at the bottom paired with a sky-blue crochet top and fresh flowers to contrast against her dark hair.

"I didn't want to get a big white dress," she says. "Maybe if I were younger, but I'm just too old."

Margaret currently lives alone and plans for it to stay that way until after the wedding. And that's in part because the couple takes the whole "no s#x before marriage" thing very seriously — in fact, the bride is still a v#rgin.

The venue for the wedding is the Catholic Church that the bride has been going to regularly for nearly her entire life. While parts of her story may seem like your typical old-fashioned wedding, there is nothing conventional about it. Margaret, the bride is 79, and Henry*, her fiancé, is 85.

"My priest told me that I should write a book," Margaret says. "He told me that he's never heard a story like mine."

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