Two twin sisters who got married on the same day after meeting their husbands on the same night have celebrated their 60th wedding anniversaries. Mary and Connie Stephenson, both 81, got hitched to their husbands at the same church after meeting their sweethearts on the same night. Mary met Henry Smith, now 80, at a dance hall at Darlaston Town Hall in Walsall, West Mids., whilst Connie went on a blind-date with Desmond Stanfield, now aged 82. The sisters both said ‘I do’ alongside one another at a joint wedding ceremony in St John’s Church in Pleck, Walsall, on March 23, 1957. Mary and Connie, who both live on the same street in Walsall, West Mids., still see each other every day of the week and holiday together regularly.
Despite being inseparable for most of their lives, the couples were forced to mark their diamond anniversaries separately after failing to find a venue big enough to accommodate their huge families and friends. Mary celebrated her long marriage to Henry at their local pub while Connie and Desmond had a party at their home.
“Me and Connie get on well enough and have never had an argument.
“One of us is always visiting the other every day, apart from holidays.
“It’s meant that we’ve been able to stay really close. If one of us is ill, the other one feels it, we get the same symptoms and everything.
“When my sister had her first son, I had the same pains during the birth.
“Because we’re twins we do everything together.
“But it’s an unusual thing for twins to celebrate a diamond anniversary and both live in the same street all these years later.
“We still see each other seven days a week. If I don’t go over and see her she’s on the phone asking where I am.”
Henry and Mary have gone on to have five children – Neil, 41, John, 46, Wayne, 51 and Patrick, 58, as well as five grandchildren and five great grandchildren. Connie and Desmond have three sons – Stephen, 59, Mark, 51, and Alan, 44 – as well as five granddaughters and four grandchildren.
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