A Rare Combination of Coincidences
There is an important distinction between the different coincidences involved.
It is not particularly unusual for twins to attend the same wedding.
It is also not unheard of for twin brothers or sisters to marry twins.
What made this particular event extraordinary was the number of twin pairs occupying significant roles at the same ceremony.
The twin brothers were the grooms.
The twin sisters were the brides.
The twin priests conducted the religious ceremony.
Twin children served as page boys.
Twin girls served as flower girls.
That meant the twin pattern appeared repeatedly throughout the event.
The News Minute described the wedding as a “double wedding” and identified five sets of twins in the main scene.
India Today similarly reported that the event involved twin grooms, twin brides, twin priests, twin page boys, and twin flower girls.
It was the combination that made the photographs so difficult to believe.
Had there been only two pairs of twins, the event would still have been unusual.
Had the priests happened to be twins as well, the story would have become considerably more remarkable.
Adding twin children to the wedding party pushed the coincidence even further.
The Setting: St. Xavier’s Church in Kerala
The wedding took place at St. Xavier’s Church in the Thrissur district of Kerala, in southern India.
Kerala has a large and historically established Christian population, and Catholic communities are an important part of the state's religious and cultural landscape.
For this particular wedding, the church provided a traditional setting that contrasted sharply with the extraordinary lineup of people participating in the ceremony.
Inside an ordinary church wedding setting, guests would normally expect to see one bride, one groom, clergy, family members, attendants, and children participating in the ceremony.
Instead, the central figures appeared in pairs.
The News Minute identified the church as St. Xavier’s Church in Pulur, while India Today and other contemporary reports placed the wedding in the Thrissur district.
That setting also helped make the photographs feel even more striking.
The church itself was conventional.
The wedding ceremony was conventional.
The religious setting was conventional.
But the people assembled for the occasion were anything but ordinary.
The Human Side of Being a Twin
The viral nature of the wedding often focused on the visual joke of “seeing double,” but the story also illustrates something more personal about the relationships between twins.
For many twins, growing up together means sharing experiences that ordinary siblings may not experience in quite the same way.
They may attend school together, share friends, experience major milestones together, and develop a close relationship from childhood.
In this case, the brothers reportedly wanted their adult lives to remain closely connected.
The News Minute reported that Dilraj and Dilkar had been very close as children and wanted to remain close into adulthood.
That desire helps explain why marrying another pair of twins appealed to them.
Instead of marriage meaning that the brothers would each move into entirely separate family structures, the arrangement allowed them to begin married life alongside each other.