Chinese couple celebrate 64 years with impossibly stylish photoshoot, him wearing suits she made

This is better than "The Notebook".
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Talk about relationship goals. For their 64th wedding anniversary, a 95-year-old man in China put together a chic photoshoot with his wife to celebrate.

Even better, all of the suits he wore in the pictures were made for him by his seamstress wife over the years.

The husband, Wang Lijin, hails from Handan in Hebei, China, and met Huang Caozhen in 1952, when he engaged her to make him a suit and fell in love with her after, reports Hebei Daily.


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During a speech that Wang gave at the family event, he tearfully thanked his "wife, mother of their children and grandmother of their grandchildren" for all the years of love they shared through thick and thin.


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Their love story was documented in a stylish photoshoot, where Wang and Huang were photographed doing the things they loved doing together, while dressed to the nines.

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Naturally, the elderly Chinese couple have become overnight Internet sensations after their touching love story went viral.

According to Chinese media outlets, the couple's pictures were later placed on billboards on shopping malls across cities in Hebei, with a tagline hailing them as models for everlasting love.

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It remains unclear who exactly was behind the billboards.

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Alicia Tan

Alicia Tan was an Asia Deputy Editor at Mashable. She has over 11 years of experience in journalism, magazine production and content publishing; specialising in women's lifestyle, fashion and beauty. When she's not writing, she's obsessing over Totoro, Ryan Gosling and online shopping.

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