Identical Twin Sisters Marry Identical Twin Brothers, And Everyone Is Thinking The Same Thing Right Now
No, you’re not seeing double. Identical twin brothers Josh and Jeremy Salyers proposed to identical twin sisters Brittany and Briana Deane on the 2nd of February (or 2-2), and the couple of couples have just gotten married in a joint ceremony at the 2018 Twins Days Festival in Twinsburg, Ohio. The ceremony was themed “Twice Upon a Time,” with identical twin ministers leading the way.
“It’s really been a fairy tale come true. Marrying twins is something that’s very important to us,” Briana (who married Jeremy) told PEOPLE. She even called the ceremony a ‘double fairy tale.’ “Even when we were little girls I can remember being in kindergarten, knowing that that is what we saw for ourselves.”
Brittany added: “We knew that the chances were incredibly scarce. The stars had to align for our dreams to come true. I get to marry the man of my dreams and at the same time I get to look over next to me and see my twin sister marrying the man of her dreams.”
The brides wore matching dresses while the grooms rocked identical tuxedos. The foursome first met last year at the same festival. Brittany and Briana had been attending it for years, and met Josh and Jeremy on the final day of the 2017 twin gathering. It was their first one.
“I remember vividly the first time Brittany and I saw Josh, and Jeremy at the twins festival,” Briana said. “I also remember the first time we all spoke the last night of the festival. It’s sort of like everything was in slow motion.”
“If they couldn’t find identical twin girls that matched up well with them, they were never getting married,” Brittany said. “I think that they experienced a lot of the same challenges dating what we call singletons, that means non-twins. It’s hard when you’re dating someone and they don’t understand the twin bond.”
If that’s not enough, the gang also plan to all live in the same house where they would raise their children together.
Identical twin brothers Josh and Jeremy Salyers met identical twin sisters Brittany and Briana Deane at the 2017 Twins Days Festival in Twinsburg, Ohio
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Brittany and Briana had been attending it for years
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But for Josh and Jeremy, it was the first one
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“I <…> remember the first time we all spoke the last night of the festival. It’s sort of like everything was in slow motion,” Briana said
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Both couples got engaged on the 2nd of February (or 2-2)
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They proposed to the women on the 2nd of February (or 2-2)
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“It’s really been a fairy tale come true. Marrying twins is something that’s very important to us”
“Even when we were little girls I can remember being in kindergarten, knowing that that is what we saw for ourselves”
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“We knew that the chances were incredibly scarce. The stars had to align for our dreams to come true,” Brittany added
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The ceremony was held at the place where they met, the Twins Days Festival in Twinsburg
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The brides wore matching dresses while the grooms rocked identical tuxedos
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The theme of the event was “Twice Upon a Time,” with identical twin ministers leading the way
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But the gang have future plans, too
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They plan to all live in the same house where they would also raise their children together
Hooray for the happy couples!
Here’s how people reacted
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Twins are still different personalities so to make the twin aspect the most important one for marriage really seems strange to me. What if one couple falls out of love? I also find it creepy as others have said. Fortunately each set of twins has sufficient facial differences that they can be told apart.
As someone whose parents were a twin and a singleton I can tell you that my mom spent her life struggling to balance what were for her equally strong bonds (her sister never married and my dad always felt/was treated like an intruder). It may sound creepy from the outside, but I think it makes sense for twins to look for partners who share/understand that bond.
Alec, that's really interesting and I'm sorry that it made things difficult for your parents. I watched a TV documentary about twins a while ago and the conclusion reached was that twins need to be treated as very different people by their parents but often aren't - look the same, must think the same. I was curious as I have known a few sets of twins and they weren't all close. One set loathed each other! All hated being dressed the same way by their parents as children. They all grew up to have different careers, different social groups (some with overlaps), different choices regarding family etc. The psychiatrists all seemed to agree that being too close could be unhealthy. Which I suppose your story backs up. I can only speak to what I was told/heard on TV of course and not personal knowledge.
@laugh fan: thanks. Personally the sets of twins I know run the gamut from 'do everything together' to 'can't stand to be in the same room'. As for the experts, I don't agree that they should be treated very differently. I think they should be treated as individuals, and allowed to work things out between themselves because at the end of the day they will always be twins, and yes, that can be a bit of an issue for outsiders that just can't understand how that relationship works. I do think that the pairs in this story are taking it to the extreme, and may come across as creepy, but if it works for them, that's great. The fact that they are identical twins means that they are part of a tiny minority that is seriously misunderstood, so it makes sense that they would want to band together. It may come across as atypical, but that is because identical twins are not the norm, and more often than not society doesn't quite know what to make of them. That's not their problem, that's ours.
Thanks for sharing your insights Alec.
there is an awful lot of identical people getting married, having honeymoons and procreating in one small town
I know! Why they want to is slightly worrying!
there is going to be a small town called Twindburg in America where everyone looks the same
Twinsburg, Ohio - it already exists.
Hahaha. You got me there
am sure it exists - but do the people all look identical?
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You have to wonder about the genetic implications for children of identical twin parents
You deem to be stuck on the 'genetic implications' of these marriages. What implications?!?! There are none. It's not going to 'mess up the gene pool'. That is not how genetics works.
....why?
They will, genetically, be brothers and sisters not nephews and nieces!
This is very creepy
Very creepy indeed! Nothing cute or "fairytail-ish" about it imo :P Especially when they'll be living in the same house :-O
absolutely creepy - The people all look sane and healthy - but you do wonder - are they trying to breed twins (this is the US( who will go on to marry more twins
Judging by the what they have said here they are probably really wishing they could. I expect that they'll plan when they get pregnant down to the last minute. Creepy AF.
While fraternal twins tend to run in families (through a strictly maternal line,), identical twins are no more likely to produce twins than the general population, so no, they are not trying to breed more twins. That's just not how biology works.
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They all looked too needy for me.
I was going to go with gimmicky but creepy works as well.
That's too much togetherness!!! You should live your separate lives with your wives!!!!!!
I suspect that one day they will...and I would KILL to be a fly on the wall for that.
Twins are still different personalities so to make the twin aspect the most important one for marriage really seems strange to me. What if one couple falls out of love? I also find it creepy as others have said. Fortunately each set of twins has sufficient facial differences that they can be told apart.
As someone whose parents were a twin and a singleton I can tell you that my mom spent her life struggling to balance what were for her equally strong bonds (her sister never married and my dad always felt/was treated like an intruder). It may sound creepy from the outside, but I think it makes sense for twins to look for partners who share/understand that bond.
Alec, that's really interesting and I'm sorry that it made things difficult for your parents. I watched a TV documentary about twins a while ago and the conclusion reached was that twins need to be treated as very different people by their parents but often aren't - look the same, must think the same. I was curious as I have known a few sets of twins and they weren't all close. One set loathed each other! All hated being dressed the same way by their parents as children. They all grew up to have different careers, different social groups (some with overlaps), different choices regarding family etc. The psychiatrists all seemed to agree that being too close could be unhealthy. Which I suppose your story backs up. I can only speak to what I was told/heard on TV of course and not personal knowledge.
@laugh fan: thanks. Personally the sets of twins I know run the gamut from 'do everything together' to 'can't stand to be in the same room'. As for the experts, I don't agree that they should be treated very differently. I think they should be treated as individuals, and allowed to work things out between themselves because at the end of the day they will always be twins, and yes, that can be a bit of an issue for outsiders that just can't understand how that relationship works. I do think that the pairs in this story are taking it to the extreme, and may come across as creepy, but if it works for them, that's great. The fact that they are identical twins means that they are part of a tiny minority that is seriously misunderstood, so it makes sense that they would want to band together. It may come across as atypical, but that is because identical twins are not the norm, and more often than not society doesn't quite know what to make of them. That's not their problem, that's ours.
Thanks for sharing your insights Alec.
there is an awful lot of identical people getting married, having honeymoons and procreating in one small town
I know! Why they want to is slightly worrying!
there is going to be a small town called Twindburg in America where everyone looks the same
Twinsburg, Ohio - it already exists.
Hahaha. You got me there
am sure it exists - but do the people all look identical?
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You have to wonder about the genetic implications for children of identical twin parents
You deem to be stuck on the 'genetic implications' of these marriages. What implications?!?! There are none. It's not going to 'mess up the gene pool'. That is not how genetics works.
....why?
They will, genetically, be brothers and sisters not nephews and nieces!
This is very creepy
Very creepy indeed! Nothing cute or "fairytail-ish" about it imo :P Especially when they'll be living in the same house :-O
absolutely creepy - The people all look sane and healthy - but you do wonder - are they trying to breed twins (this is the US( who will go on to marry more twins
Judging by the what they have said here they are probably really wishing they could. I expect that they'll plan when they get pregnant down to the last minute. Creepy AF.
While fraternal twins tend to run in families (through a strictly maternal line,), identical twins are no more likely to produce twins than the general population, so no, they are not trying to breed more twins. That's just not how biology works.
marry
They all looked too needy for me.
I was going to go with gimmicky but creepy works as well.
That's too much togetherness!!! You should live your separate lives with your wives!!!!!!
I suspect that one day they will...and I would KILL to be a fly on the wall for that.