9 Year Old And 62 Year Old Woman Renews Wedding Vows After A Year Of Marriage[Photos/Video]

The couple originally married in 2013 after Saneie claimed that his dead ancestors had instructed him to do so. They then repeated their vows with a second ceremony this year, according to local wedding tradition.

At nine-years-old, Saneie is the world’s youngest groom. Helen is a 62-year-old married mother of five. She works at a recycling plant.

Both families claim the wedding is a simply “ritual” after the young school boy was told by his dead ancestors to wed last year.

The boy however hopes he would have a proper wedding to a woman his age in the future.

“I told my mother that I wanted to get married because I really did want to.
I’m happy that I married Helen – but I will go to school and study hard.
When I’m older I will marry a lady my own age. I chose Helen because I love her and, although we don’t live together all the time, we meet at the dumping site where my mother works regularly.”

Other villagers have called the wedding “sickening”, but Saneie’s mother, Patience, doesn’t have a problem with it: “I know it’s what the ancestors wanted. If we hadn’t done what my son had asked then something bad would have happened in the family.”

“People keep asking will they live together, sleep together, have babies, but I keep telling them that after the wedding everything went back to normal – nothing changed. All this ceremony is for making ancestors happy. We are playing.”

Helen Shabangu’s husband of 30 years, Alfred, attended both wedding ceremonies. He said, “My kids and I are happy because we don’t have a problem with her marrying the boy – and I don’t care what other people say.”

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