'Being in love at 94 is just as breathtaking': Meet the geriatric couples who are proof it's NEVER too late to make it down the aisle (even if it is on a mobility scooter!)

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Pensioners are proving you're never too old to find love - as the number of couples tying the knot in their twilight years is on the rise. 

Now a new Channel 4 documentary, I Do at 92, is sharing the heartwarming stories behind the statistics - like that of Georgina, 94, and Raymond, 86, who wed six months after meeting at their Surrey care home. 

The couple, who were both widowed, made their way down the aisle in mobility scooters adorned with 'just married' signs after tying the knot last Christmas, and Georgina says being in love at 94 is 'just as exciting, tantalising and breathtaking'.   

Georgina, 94, and Raymond, 86, married six months after meeting at their care home in Surrey. They never thought they would find love again after losing their first partners

According to the The National Office of Statistics, in 2015 the number of grooms in their late sixties and older increased by 25 per cent, while brides in the same age range went up 21 per cent. 

I Do At 92 follows three couples who have exchanged vows in their seventies, eighties and nineties, including Georgina and her 'toy boy' Raymond. 

Georgina was married to her beloved husband Cliff for 57 years and was devastated when he died in her arms after a suffering a heart attack more than a decade ago.

She thought she would never find love again, but with a glint her eye she says on the show: 'You never know what life will send you'. 

She said far from being 'God's waiting room' her care home has given her 'another life', as it is where she met retired chef Raymond.

Like Georgina, Ray had lost his spouse ten years before and never expected to marry again.

'I was surprised how quickly love grew, she is a great comfort to me,' he said of his new wife. 

They couple were given their own room to share in their care home after getting married last Christmas, so they could live together. 

Georgina said she has no regrets about marrying late in life, even though she is aware their relationship could be short-lived as Ray has been diagnosed with terminal cancer. 

'Even a day of misery is a long time, so you have to accept one day of happiness is also a long time, life is for living and I love him very much,' she said.

'I know what could happen and the longer we can manage the more thankful I will be. 

'If we could manage two years I would be very happy.'

These are sentiments echoed by great-great-grandmother Margaret, from Mansfield, who didn't want any expense spared when she married at the age of 81 after meeting Victor, 77, online.

One in 10 pensioners have used the internet to find love like Margaret did, although she admits on the show that she encountered a 'few strange people' via dating websites before eventually finding The One.

She says: 'I met one ordinary pensioner at junction 23 on the motorway, we were sitting down to eat dinner and he kept saying "show us your t**s!"

'I said "behave yourself! I haven't come for that", so he got up and went, he realised he had made a right bloomer.'

Margaret wanted a 'fairytale princess wedding' when she tied the knot for the second time at the age of 81, even though her granddaughter hoped she would be 'more tasteful'

However, she wasn't so reserved when she met twice-married Victor, as she spent the night with him on their first date despite telling her four children she wouldn't.

'I think there is more loving when you get older, I hope we are still doing it when we are 90-odd,' she said. 

Three years later he proposed, and Margaret said she didn't want getting married as an octogenarian to mean having a small, simple do.

She wanted a 'full fairytale princess wedding' - much to the surprise of her family.

One of her 11 grandchildren, Lynn, told Channel 4 ahead of Margaret's big day: 'They want the biggest hall in the registry office, the flowers, the favours, the disco.

'She wants a horse and carriage but I don't know what to say about that, I don't want her to have it, hopefully she will do it more tasteful.

'In the beginning she was going to go for a full wedding dress, it did make me chuckle to myself but I don't think she will do that now.'

Margaret did end up doing just that, wearing a strapless embellished £499 white gown and being whisked to the ceremony in a horse and carriage.

Margaret and her second husband Victor, 77, married three years after they met online. One in ten pensioners now meet a new flame via internet dating

Her daughter, Denise, said she was concerned by the lavish expenditure.

The couple paid for the wedding with some of their life savings, and Margaret admits she did get a little carried away, spending 'two or three times' their original £3,000 budget.

But she said it was well-worth it to marry Victor in style, and leave her first failed marriage behind her. 

She said: 'With my first husband, John, I didn't have the closeness I have with Victor.

'We got married in 1953 because I was expecting. We were married for 35 years and I divorced him basically over drink. 

'He wasn't so bad if he had beer but it was the whiskey. 

'If I spoke out of turn, it was a backhand around the face.

'I stood up for myself in the end, there is no point being a coward, it made me stronger.'

The wedding is also a second chance for Victor, who admitted he hadn't been the best father to his children when they were growing up because he was busy doing two jobs. 

He said he wanted to spoil Margaret and was delighted he was being welcomed into her large family. 

Margaret and Victor busted their original wedding budget, made from their life savings, but the bride didn't care as she wanted the day of her dreams

He said: 'I want my children to see how I am now, how I can make someone happy.

'It is wonderful to be her partner, lover, husband. I have been given the opportunity to be a family man and it feels fantastic, showing the affection I should have shown to my own children.'

Margaret said one of the benefits of getting married later in life is having savings in the bank, rather than 'always worrying where the next penny was coming from', like she did in the '50s when she first tied the knot. 

However, she admitted she did find the wedding planning more stressful second time around.

She said: 'It was worth all the hassle... we have gone through to get here. Love is not giving up on each other.'

Meanwhile, former taxi driver Derek, 76, from Peterborough, hopes his third marriage will heal the wounds caused by his previous two divorces.

He said his broken relationships in the past left him so low he considered suicide.

He said: 'Divorce hurts as much as someone dying, it rips you apart. 

'I thought about suicide. I ended up on a bridge broken-hearted and crying because I have lost something I had loved.'

Derek was delighted to become a groom again at the age of 76 after two painful divorces in his youth that left him feeling suicidal

A handful of painful flings failed to restore his faith in relationships, and he spent years believing he was better off alone. 

'Women, they come to me and then they leave me,' he said. 'I am frightened of them because I don't know what I am doing wrong.'

His fear of getting hurt again meant he waited 18 years to ask out former beauty queen Carolyn, 70, who he met the the bingo. 

He couldn't believe his luck when she agreed to go out with him, and was delighted when she accepted his proposal after he popped the question on their second date.

He said: 'I have always been unlucky in love but I hope my luck is changing. The first time I saw Carolyn it was like a glow, it draws you to her.

'I waited 18 years to ask her out, I had to put all my fears behind me.'

Derek said his relationship with Carolyn has given him a new lease of life and he feels a new man at 76.

He said: 'I feel like a spring flower opening up, it is like I have been in a cocoon and I have got out. I am like a chicken coming out of the shell, I am hungry for life and life is what I have got.'

I Do At 92 is on Channel 4 at 10pm on Tuesday December 13