27-05-2025
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- Straits Times
Once ‘aunty', now ‘sayang': 70-year-old Malaysian woman marries 47-year-old neighbour
Mr Mohd Shaiful Nizam Yeop Mat Isa and Ms Rapeah Sani (middle) are surrounded by their family and friends during the mass wedding ceremony. PHOTO: SHAMSUL ANUAR NASARAH/FACEBOOK
Madam Rapeah Sani never expected to get married again at the age of 70, but little did she know that love was right next door.
She got to know Mr Mohd Shaiful Nizam Yeop Mat Isa in October 2024, when the 47-year-old man moved to her rural hometown of Lenggong in Perak from Kuala Lumpur .
As Mr Mohd Shaiful lived in a house nearby, Madam Rapeah often shared her homecooked meals with him.
Being twice-married, she did not expect the bachelor to develop romantic feelings for her.
However, her cooking captured his heart.
'I used to call her 'mak ngah' (aunty) but now I call her 'sayang' (darling),' Mr Mohd Shaiful told Malay daily Utusan Malaysia.
Both are unfazed over their 23-year-old age gap.
'We accepted it as that is how fate works,' Mr Mohd Shaiful told another Malay newspaper Sinar Harian.
They were among 25 couples who got married at a mass wedding ceremony in Lenggong on May 25.
The wedding was attended by Perak Chief Ministe r Saarani Mohamad and Lenggong MP Shamsul Anuar Nasarah.
The mass wedding was held to mark the distinctive date of May 25, 2025 , or 25.5.25, reported the New Straits Times.
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