Akhil and Nikhil Thomas are identical twins. They fell in love with Magi and Maria Mary Thomas, who are also twin sisters. Up to that point, it was already a coincidence worth telling twice.

But when the wedding day arrived, at St. Mary’s Metropolitan Church in Changanassery, in southern India, the ceremony held one more surprise. The priests who blessed the two couples, Fathers Anto and Ajo Pezhumkattil, were also identical twins. And as if the symmetry could not stop, the altar servers who served at the altar, Jeron and Johon James, completed the picture.

The brides had dreamed of a wedding like this since childhood, and life granted their wish with a precision that not even they could have planned. Four pairs of twins, one altar, one afternoon to remember.

