Lee Fu-tang, dressed in a trim business suit, arrived in a limousine to marry Kuan Wen-ying, 85, at his home in Yuanlin township in the central county of Changhua that morning.

A wedding ceremony was held at the courtyard of Lee's home, where the couple has lived since 2007 after Kuan came to Taiwan from their hometown in China's northern province of Shandong. The ceremony was followed by a wedding banquet, also held in the courtyard.

The wedding was organized with the assistance of the Taichung City-based Hondao Senior Citizen's Welfare Foundation.

The foundation decided to help organize the wedding after hearing of Lee's long-held hope of being able to remarry his wife in a "more formal wedding ceremony."

Lee said that he and Kuan used to play together as children when they were neighbors back in Shandong. They were later wed through a marriage arranged by their parents, but only over a table at a small restaurant with just their parents attending.

Lee said he left home three years later to join the Nationalist army and fight against Japanese invading troops and the emerging Chinese communists. Their son was also born at around that time, he went on, adding that he did not see Kuan and their only son again until 1993, when he got in contact with them and they began exchanging photos.

He traveled to Shandong to bring Kuan to Taiwan to live with him in 2007 -- after nearly 60 years of separation across the strait, during which they both remarried and had families of their own. Both Lee's Taiwanese wife and Kuan's Chinese husband had died by the time Lee made the trip to Shandong.

Lee kissed a shy Kuan on the cheek during the wedding ceremony, in which the couple vowed to keep each other company for the rest of their lives.