When identical twin sisters Darlene
and Diane Nettemeier went to a twins' festival in Twinsburg, Ohio, one
man stood out by himself amongst the sea of twins.
Tall, dark and handsome Mark Sanders caught their eye, but there was only one of him and two of them.
Luckily
for them, Mr Sanders was also a twin, and he called his identical
brother, Craig, down from their hotel room to meet the 'neat' blondes. More pictures after the cut.....
Soon afterwards, the pairs of twins fell in love, got married, and then went on to produce another set of identical twins.
Now
the Sanders family - Craig and Diane, and Mark and Darlene - live in
houses next door to each other in Texas, and have five children between
them.
Today they appeared on a U.S. talk show to discuss talk about their unusual family set-up.
Craig, 44, said that he felt an 'instant attraction' to just one of the blonde twins, Darlene, despite them looking the same.
When I went downstairs I was
instantly attracted to the one on the right. Diane was standing on the
right and Darlene was standing on the left and I was instantly attracted
to Diane,' he said on the Jeff Probst show.After
meeting in 1998, the boys went to visit the girls at their home in St.
Louis, Missouri, and took them on a double date to a baseball game.
The two couples hit it off, got engaged on the same day, and decided to share a wedding.
'We
had a double wedding and Darlene and I decided that we wanted to wear
the same dress and then our dad walked us both down the aisle at the
same time,' Diane said.
The families built their houses on
adjoining plots and took out the fence between the two to create one
enormous garden that they could all share.
But Craig Sanders said despite all the unusual coincidences, they see themselves as 'Just two normal families who happen to be close to one another.'
Mark Sanders admitted identical twins marrying identical twins was 'pretty unusual.'
'There
aren't that many of them that we are aware of in the United States, and
when you throw in a third set of identical twins, that makes it even
more unusual.'
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