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At Amanda Wirtz's wedding on Aug. 31, 2024, her then 100-year-old grandfather, William Robert Gordon, walked her down the aisle

The pair also shared a sweet father-daughter dance at the reception

"We both had tears in our eyes and I knew this was a big moment for him even if he didn’t say it," Wirtz tells PEOPLE about Gordon, who turns 102 in October

A bride's centenarian grandfather made her wedding day extra special.

Amanda Wirtz, now 28, tied the knot on Aug. 31, 2024, in Raleigh, N.C., when she was 27 years old. Among the 180 wedding guests was the bride's grandfather, William Robert Gordon, who fulfilled her request for him to walk her down the aisle despite being 100 years old at the time.

"I asked him to walk me down the aisle shortly after I got engaged in Novemb

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