78yo Hungarian mayor and 18yo mother’s marriage took an unexpected turn

Locals called the marriage of their 78-year-old mayor and an 18-year-old girl in Kunhegyes three years ago the “wedding of the century”. They said their love would last forever and seemed very happy. Here is what happened with the couple.

The “wedding of the century”

We wrote in 2022 about the marriage of a weird couple: the 78-year-old mayor of Kunhegyes, Mr András Szabó, and an 18-year-old girl, who already had a 4-year-old son by then, birthing him when she was only 13. Locals called the happy event “the marriage of the century” and added that the mayor’s former wife was also very young, only in her mid-twenties, when she tied the knot with the village’s first man.

Locals were divided about the marriage. József (67) could not imagine his life on the side of a girl 40 years younger than him. He thought an 18-year-old girl was just a kid. He would marry a woman at least 40. Júlia, in her 80s in 2022, was shocked when she heard about the wedding. “This is more than enough. We were together with my husband for 46 years until God called him. I have never seen such a thing.” Andrea Háziné Szabó defended the couple. Her husband is 30 years older, and they raised three kids. “I did not care about others’ opinions. My husband was a man of a kind when he was young. If love comes, it comes” – she added then.