Summary We have always wanted to marry together and to marry twins
IBADAN (Nigeria) (AFP) - Two brides in identical white dresses. Two grooms in matching suits and bow ties. Two sets of twin children serving as page boys and flower girls. Giant posters featuring two couples with the same names. Even the wedding hashtag -- #TwinningInLove2026 -- left little room for confusion.
As twin sisters Taiwo and Kehinde Adediran walked down the aisle arm in arm with their father at a church in Ibadan, southwestern Nigeria, to tie the knot with twin brothers Taiwo and Kehinde Oguntoye, guests rose from their seats, lifting smartphones to capture what many described as a once-in-a-lifetime wedding.
"Twins marrying twins, really? This is my first time seeing this!" shouted a passerby outside the church as crowds gathered around the newlyweds for photographs after the ceremony.
For many attending, the union of Taiwo and Kehinde with Taiwo and Kehinde felt almost too perfectly symmetrical to be real.
"We have always wanted to marry together and to marry twins," said Taiwo Oguntoye, beaming after the ceremony. "And by the special grace of God, it happened. I am so happy to marry the love of my life!"
Both sets of twins are from Ibadan, in a region famous for its unusually high number of twin births.
The brothers, known locally as the Oguntoye Twins, have built careers around promoting twin culture.
Active in tourism and cultural initiatives, they are the founders of Twins World Creations and initiators of Twin Tourism, celebrating the region's twins.
Their love story began years ago, when a professor at the University of Ibadan told the brothers she knew a pair of twin sisters they should meet.
The four became friends, but when the brothers suggested taking the relationship further, the sisters were unconvinced.
"We said no, we don't want to date twins!" said bride Kehinde Adediran, laughing.
The friendship faded. Years later, the brothers reached out again. This time, the answer was different.
"I've always wished to marry a twin as well," laughed Kehinde Akanji, 26, a friend of the grooms attending with his own twin brother. "It's our first time seeing something like this."
For Dupe Aduroja Giwa, the Alaga -- the master of ceremonies of the traditional wedding -- a lifetime of nuptials had not prepared her for this one.
"Twins from the same family marrying twins from the same family?" she said. "I have never seen this in my life. It is a privilege to be part of it."
After all, it is not every day that one Taiwo marries another Taiwo, and one Kehinde marries another Kehinde.
