Their height made Wayne and Laurie Hallquist seem like an ideal match when they met seven years ago, and on Thursday they were matched with something else -- the title of world's tallest living married couple.

当韦恩和劳瑞·霍尔奎斯特在七年前相遇时，他们的身高让他们看起来简直是绝配。本周四，这二人又配上了另一样东西——世界最高在世夫妻的称号。

Wayne Hallquist, 6 feet 10.4 inches tall and his wife Laurie Hallquist, 6 feet 5.95 inches from Stockton, California appear at an event in Hollywood to form Guinness World Record’s new “Tallest Married Couple” in Hollywood, California November 18, 2010.

Guinness World Records bestowed¹（使用，授予） that towering distinction to the Hallquists in a ceremony under the marquee（大天幕，华盖） at its Hollywood museum. The couple arrived in a white limousine²（豪华轿车） , with Wayne sporting a tuxedo³（无尾礼服） and Laurie in a white wedding dress.

The Hallquists, who live in Stockton, California, measure a combined 13 feet, 4 inches, or 407.4 centimeters, to be exact. He stands 6 feet 10.4 inches, she 6 feet 5.95 inches, the Guinness organization said.

"It's a whole different perspective up here, and we can find each other quite easily in a crowd," Laurie told Reuters.

"We can see several people going bald（秃顶的，光秃的） that might not know it at the moment," joked Wayne, 57, who works as a telephone company wire splicer⁴（接合东西的人） .

The Hallquists said that when they met at a church singles club in 2003, they could tell that others around them were sizing up a possible love affair because of their height.

"She walked in, everyone looked at her, then they looked at me," Wayne said.

But while Wayne said it was love at first sight for him, Laurie their first meeting came up short.

"He talked about the size of my hands and feet, which is kind of a no-no," said Laurie, 46. "And then the second time we had a chance to talk, I figured out he was a really good guy."

They have been married for seven years, but it took the Hallquists until this year to contact Guinness World Records.

The couple said they were discouraged at first from making a play for（勾引） world's tallest couple, because they read online that a man and a woman each standing⁵ over 7 feet had married in the 19th century.

Only this year did they realize they could compete in another category: world's tallest living married couple.

Guinness previously⁶ listed a couple in England -- Wilco and Keisha van Kleef-Bolton -- as the world's tallest couple at a combined height of 13 feet, 3 inches.