CONGRATULATIONS to Geoff Cook and wife Cath, ne Langan, on their 50th wedding anniversary today.

Felicitations also to Ray Cook and wife Joan, ne Langan, on their golden wedding anniversary.

Here, then, is an unusual formula for happiness. Two brothers marry twin sisters in a shared ceremony, then live a door or two away in the same street. The result: 50 years of wedded bliss.

Or should that be 100? Whatever, we raise our glasses to them. Doubles all round.

Updated: 10:11 Friday, March 07, 2003