107 Year-Old Lady Searching For Her First Bride

107 Year-Old Lady Searching For Her First Bride

Wang Guiying,Chinese woman,107 years old, is looking for her bride a the age of 107.

Wang Guiying was born in southern Guizhou province. She was the child of a salt merchant. She grew up watching her uncles and other men scold and beat their wives and this made her fear marriage.

After her father, mother and older sister died, she still did not marry and moved to the countryside where she survived as a farmer until she was 74 years old and no longer strong enough to work in the fields.

Now She decided to marry because she was worried that she had become a burden to her aging nieces and nephews, especially since she was forced to stop helping with household chores since breaking her leg when she was 102.

She says,“My nephews and nieces are getting older and their children are already tied up with their own families and I am becoming more and more of a burden. I’m already 107 and I still haven’t gotten married. What will happen if I don’t hurry up and find a husband?”

Marriage on Bamboo Poles

Marriage on Bamboo Poles

The brides all wore traditional wedding dresses while the grooms wore suits for the stunt on the Xiangjiang River in Zunyi city, Guizhou province.

All three couples belong to the local single bamboo rafting club, and chose to get married on the water to show their skill at the sport, reports People Daily.

The sport involves racing on the river while balancing on a locally produced bamboo pole around 20cm in diameter.

"They can sit or stand on the piece of bamboo and they can race and compete at other tasks using a thin bamboo oar," explains a club spokesman.

The Zunyi city sporting office says it is trying to promote the new sport and hopes it will become popular across the city.

Oldest Woman Looking For Her 1st Husband

Oldest Woman Looking For Her 1st Husband

A 107-year-old Chinese woman who was afraid to marry when she was young has decided to look for her first husband and hopes to find a fellow centenarian so they will have something to talk about, a Chinese paper reported.

Wang Guiying is worried she is becoming a burden to her aging nieces and nephews since breaking her leg when she was 102 and had to stop doing chores like washing her clothes.

"I'm already 107 and I still haven't got married," the Chongqing Commercial Times quoted her saying. "What will happen if I don't hurry up and find a husband?"

Born in southern Guizhou province the child of a salt merchant, Wang grew up watching her uncles and other men scold and beat their wives and often found her aunt crying in the woodshed after an attack, the paper said.

"All the married people around there lived like that. Getting married was too frightening," she said of an era when Chinese women had few rights and low social standing.

Many also had their feet bound in an excruciating process aimed at making them look more dainty and marriageable.

After Wang's father, mother and older sister died, she still shied away from marriage. Instead she moved to the countryside and survived as a farmer until she was 74 years old and no longer strong enough to work in the fields, the report said.

Her nephew in the booming city of Chongqing then took Wang in, but she is worried he and her other nephews and nieces are too old to take care of her now even the youngest is 60.

"My nephews and nieces are getting older and their children are already tied up with their own families and I am becoming more and more of a burden," she said.

Local officials have said they are happy to help Wang search for a 100-year old groom, and suggested her family get in touch with old people's homes to find candidates, the paper said.

92 Year Old Groom Still Looking For Bride

92 Year Old Groom Still Looking For Bride

Egyptian authorities have banned a 92-year-old Saudi man from marrying a poor teenage girl 75 years his junior, a judicial source said on Saturday.

The justice ministry made its ruling under a law designed to prevent wealthy Arabs from the Gulf from snapping up young Egyptian girls and which forbids marriage when there is an age gap of 25 years or more.

The unidentified Saudi holidaymaker proposed marriage to a 17-year-old village girl and offered a dowry of about 28,000 dollars as well as jewelry, the source said."Her parents, who are very poor, accepted," he told Agence France Presse.

But the justice ministry refused to register the marriage, citing the legislation brought in during the Gulf oil boom.

However, according to Egypt's Al-Akhbar newspaper, the authorities allowed 173 such marriages last year after the foreign husbands paid the equivalent of 8,000 dollars to the Egyptian National Bank.

Bride Dies in Wedding Gown

Bride Dies in Wedding Gown

A Lebanese bride from the eastern city of Baalbek passed away last Sunday as her groom was heading to her parents' house to give her a flower bouquet.

An Nahar daily said Tuesday that Zainab al-Masri, 24, was taking photos with her family members in the town of Hourtaala on her wedding day when she fell on the floor and immediately passed away.

The newspaper said the groom, Hassan al-Laqees, and his family went into a state of shock after learning the news.The medical examiner, according to An Nahar, said al-Masri died of heart failure which prevented oxygen from reaching her brain.