Two Grooms Fetch Their Brides
Wedding of Two Pairs of Twins Draws Many Villagers
Karmic Story: Two Pairs of Twins Had Long Been Connected
An uncommonly joyous event, twin brothers marrying twin sisters, has happened right here in our midst. Yesterday, a pair of fraternal twin brothers from Jiaozhou married a pair of twin sisters. Many fellow villagers from Laihai Street's Laifu Village and Xindian Village bore witness to the love story crafted by these two pairs of twins. At the wedding site, the two pairs of twin newlyweds, who looked incredibly alike, left their friends and relatives dazzled, making the entire wedding even more festive and lively.
Double Happiness: Twins Marry Twins
"A pair of twin brothers becoming grooms on the same day, marrying a pair of twin sisters," yesterday, Mr. Zhang, a villager from Laifu Village of Laihai Street in Jiaozhou, told reporters that the Zheng Shouwei and Zheng Shouhua brothers from their village were a pair of twins, and they were going to marry twin sisters Fu Jing and Fu Jie from a nearby village. Around 8 a.m., when the reporter arrived at Laifu Village, a celebratory arch had already been erected. The two pairs of newlyweds were Zheng Shouwei and Fu Jing, and Zheng Shouhua and Fu Jie respectively. The former pair was the older brother and sister among the twins, while the latter pair was the younger brother and sister among the twins.
A villager told reporters that the twin brothers looked very much alike since childhood, even their voices sounded similar, and they were both around 1.82 meters tall now, making them hard to distinguish, often leading to mistaken identities. Not only were the two men like this, but the twin sisters also looked identical. "I can't tell them apart; they look like one person," Mr. Zhang said. On the day last year when the two couples became engaged, he saw the twin sisters, both around 1.65 meters tall with similar builds, looking as if they were carved from the same mold, leaving him astonished.
Fun Incident at the Scene: Groom Finds Bride by Looking for 'Marks'
Yesterday, the parents of the grooms were busy entertaining guests, the "double happiness" bringing immense joy to the two elders. To marry off their twin sons, the elderly couple built four large tile-roofed rooms as wedding houses for each son. "To differentiate, we came up with a good method," Zheng Shouwei pointed at his own clothes, saying that he wore a pink-purple shirt with a blue floral-patterned tie, while his younger brother wore a blue shirt with a purple floral-patterned tie. They had already informed the guests at the scene of this "secret" to avoid confusion among friends and relatives.
At 9:09 a.m., the bridal convoy set off from the groom's home to pick up the twin brides from Xindian Village. The two brides in red wedding dresses sat on the bed, making it difficult to distinguish between them. It was still the elder brother Zheng Shouwei who first recognized Fu Jing. Originally, this pair of newlyweds had quietly exchanged signals, distinguishing each other through necklaces of different shapes and slightly different hairstyles.
The brides' parents told reporters that their twin daughters marrying twin brothers would surely allow them to take care of each other, leading to a happy and fulfilling life, giving them peace of mind.
At 10:10 a.m., the wedding car picked up the twin brides and left Xindian Village. At 11:18 a.m., the wedding party returned to Laifu Village, where the streets were already filled with people. Amidst the sound of firecrackers, the two pairs of newlyweds were separately escorted to their respective wedding houses. To avoid confusion and overcrowding, the emcee held the heaven-and-earth worship ceremony at the new homes of each pair of newlyweds separately.
On the way back from the wedding, bridesmaid Ms. Fu told reporters that the twin grooms and twin brides were once junior high school classmates. Elder brother Zheng Shouwei and the twin sisters were all classmates once, and after graduating from junior high school, the sisters worked as factory workers at a clothing factory near their village for five or six years. Later, they met the twin brothers. "At the time, there was no thought of marrying a twin wife; under the matchmaker's arrangement, we became a couple," Zheng Shouwei told reporters. Their grandmother's family lived in the same village as the bride's family. Last year, on the third day of the first lunar month, he and his younger brother went to their uncle's house to pay New Year's greetings and coincidentally met the twin sisters. Under the matchmaker's arrangement, the two pairs of twins started dating. Zheng Shouwei worked in Qingdao and could only express affection over the phone to twin sister Fu Jing. Younger brother Zheng Shouhua worked locally, and because the two villages were only seven or eight li apart, the younger brother would frequently visit the twin sisters' home, relentlessly pursuing Fu Jie. Thus, the two young couples quickly fell in love. On the sixth day of the twelfth lunar month last year, the parents of both sides arranged the engagement for the two pairs of twins and decided on the same wedding day.
Guests' Wishes: Have Two More Pairs of Twins
Ms. Fu introduced that there was a strong "twin connection" within the families of the two pairs of twin newlyweds. The uncle's family of the twin grooms had a pair of boy-girl twins, while the aunt's family of the twin brides had a pair of twin girls. "Both the bride and groom have twin genes, so they should have two more pairs of twins in the future." At the wedding site, friends and relatives attending the wedding banquet sent their blessings.