Meet the Salyers, who are living twin lives.
Jeremy Salyers, 37, and his identical twin brother, Josh, married identical twin sisters Briana and Brittany, who are 35. The couples married in a joint ceremony at the 2018 Twins Days Festival in Twinsburg, Ohio. They met at the very same festival a year prior.
Now both couples have also welcomed children. In August 2020, they announced overlapping pregnancies. Brittany and Josh are parents to 1-year-old Jett Salyers. Briana and Jeremy are parents to 10-month-old Jax Salyers. The two boys may be cousins, but they are so genetically similar they are practically brothers.
"You've heard the term Irish twins and you've heard identical twins and fraternal twins," Briana Salyers told Today.
"But we have quaternary twins."
"They were born to identical twin parents less than nine months apart," Brittany explained of the babies.
"Twins married to twins who both have babies at the same time."
"We were hoping that we would have overlapping pregnancies so that this would happen. We thought it would be really cool," Briana said.
"There’s only 300 quaternary marriages known in the history of the world."
Both couples are weighing the option of growing their families.
"We are debating if we should go for one more pregnancy each or not," Briana said.
"We will make a decision pretty soon. The babies are still pretty young (and) we are trying to wait a little longer to see what to do."
The couples understand their unusual way of life isn't for everyone, but it's what works for them.
"It was something we all four wanted and when we got engaged, we all wanted it that way," Brittany shared.
"It's something that's very nice. (Josh and Jeremy) understand the twin bond like we do. We get to have a lot of together time."
