Bride in her eighties wows web
UNITED STATES: Back in the 1950s Millie Taylor appeared in shoots for a New Jersey modelling agency.
Half a century later, she is still capable of turning heads.
Getting married this month for the second time, she stepped down the aisle of a church in New Jersey in a shimmering purple dress beneath a diaphanous silver and lavender gown - her favourite colours - to greet her groom, Harold Morrison, 85.
Photographs of the new Mrs
"Even though we were in our twilight years, we wanted to be pleasing in God's eyes." Millie Taylor-Morrison
Taylor-Morrison, 86, caused a sensation after they were posted on Instagram by her dress designer, Marco Hall.
Mr Hall said that she had given him a sketch of what she wanted, telling him that she was going all out because ‘‘this might be my last hurrah’’.
The bride and groom had been friends since their youth, when they attended the same church.
Mr Morrison came to her first wedding in 1952. After her husband died four decades later, they became reacquainted.
In an interview with People magazine, Mrs Taylor-Morrison said that she drove him to church when he fell ill, and when his health declined again asked if he would like to live with her.
His health recovered a year later, at which point Mrs Taylor Morrison felt that he ought to make an honest woman of her.
‘‘Even though we were in our twilight years, we wanted to be pleasing in God’s eyes,’’ she said.