Bride wears gown adorned with scorpions

Wild wedding: Bride wears gown adorned with scorpions

PATTAYA, Thailand - Thailand's Scorpion Queen and Centipede King have tied the knot. The couple with a soft spot for creepy crawlers held their Valentine's Day's wedding at a haunted house.

Kanchana Ketkaew, 36, who set a world record in 2002 for spending 32 days in a glass cage with 3,400 scorpions, married 29-year-old Bunthawee Siengwong - who set a Thai record for enduring 28 days with 1,000 centipedes. Kanchana's record was beaten in 2004.

Her bridal gown was adorned with live scorpions, while Bunthawee enticed his bride by placing a centipede in his mouth.

"I like him and I like it that we both are up for a real challenge," Kanchana said.

The couple met while performing their respective stunts at a snake farm on the resort island of Koh Samui, said Somporn Naksuetrong, the general manager of the Thailand's Ripley's Believe It or Not Museum, which sponsored the wedding.

They were married in a group ceremony dubbed "Til Death Do Us Part" at Ripley's Haunted Adventure House in the southern resort town of Pattaya, 50 miles south of Bangkok. The six other couples wore bloodstained wedding clothes.

They participated in a traditional Thai ceremony in which elders blessed the couples with holy water. Each couple then climbed into a coffin to symbolically consummate their union.