100-year-old bridesmaid is warming hearts
A centenarian grandmother-of-four has become the oldest bridesmaid in the UK after she helped celebrate her granddaughter’s big day – which also happened to be her 100th birthday!
Martha Wallbank told her granddaughter, 29-year-old Vita Cresswell, of her wish as soon as she announced her engagement, proclaiming “I’m the bridesmaid.”
Cresswell told the Huffington Post she wanted her day to be about family, so it seemed natural to have it on the same day her grandma turned 100. ““It couldn’t have worked out any better. We got her posies and she was in the same colours as the other bridesmaids. She was singing and laughing and waving at everybody. I bet she was thinking ‘why do you keep looking at them, it’s my day?’. It was gorgeous how happy she was. She had a ball.”
Wallbank, who aside from a few occasional memory issues is in great health, reportedly did her best to eat healthy and stay fit in the lead up to the wedding since it was “something she always wanted to see us do.”
What better way to celebrate the special bond between a grandma and her granddaughter?
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