It’s animal encounters as celebrity couple tie the knot at Zoo Negara

Siti Khadijah Jaafar and Otto Md Tahir @ Othman with some of their other ‘guests’ at their Zoo Negara wedding today. (Social media pic)

KUALA LUMPUR: 

While most couples dream of having a beach or garden wedding, television personality Siti Khadijah Jaafar and radio station announcer Otto Md Tahir @ Othman chose to get married in Zoo Negara here today.

Their guests were not only treated to a sumptuous spread but also had the opportunity to interact with various tame animals, among them an albino python, rabbits and various species of birds placed in a mini zoo specially created for the event.

Guests were also enchanted as they watched the bride and groom, elegantly dressed in all white, being escorted by a flock of storks serving as 

flower girls

 before walking to the dais on the stage at Dewan Tunku Abdul Rahman.

Siti Khadijah described their zoo wedding as a memory she and her husband would cherish for a lifetime. 

We are both animal lovers, so when Zoo Negara offered us the opportunity to hold our wedding here, we did not hesitate to say ‘yes’,

 she said.

Siti Khadijah and Otto were also thrilled to interact with zoo visitors after the cake-cutting ceremony, as well as feed the zoo animals, including the star of Zoo Negara – an orange cat named Oyen which 

resides

 in the capybara enclosure.

Zoo Negara deputy president Rosly Ahmat Lana said the zoo welcomes anyone interested in holding their wedding ceremony there and hoped today’s event would inspire future brides and grooms. - FMT