Confusions and aliikes are not uncommon. But at Felicia Harding’s wedding on Vancouver Island this summer, attendees confused the bride with her friend Brittany Delaney.
Even a white dress was not enough to differentiate between the two small women with brown curly hair, bangs and wide smiles.
And they weren’t just the guests.
“Her husband approached me a couple of times and it was like ‘Oh’,” recalls Delaney, who lives in St. Albert, Alta.
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Brittany Delaney lives in St. Albert. and owns the company Confections Cake. Felicia Harding is a musca and lives on the island of Vancouver. The two are dopplegangers, to the point where their husbands and children have trouble distinguishing them. They even took a genetic test to see if they are related.
Harding add: “Many friends told me after they knew she was close, and obviously they knew he wore a wedding dress.
“But several times they were like ‘Oh yes, it’s Felicia.”
This confusion is something that women have become accustomed. In fact, it is how they met first.
Fast friends with family faces
Delaney directs Confecions Cake Company in St. Albert, while Harding is a victory -based musician.
Six years ago, the former art professor from Delaney attended one of Harding’s concerts. He labeled them in a publication on social networks that commented on their similarities.
“I click on his photos and I thought: ‘What the hell?'” CBC Active Radio.
She sent a message to Harding and the two began to speak.
“Usually, when you make someone mention that you look like another person, you look at the person and think: ‘I don’t even see it, or I guess I see it a bit,” says Harding.
“But when I looked at Brittany’s photos, he surprised me because he really looks like me. And so we became friends.”
For five years, women spoke online, linking about their twin characteristics. Then, Harding planned a trip to Edmonton and Delaney offered to meet in person for the first time.
The mother of Delaney and her son Atlas collected Harding from the West Edmonton shopping center and then took her to Delaney’s business in St. Albert.
Beeked by the resemblance and curious to see how effective the similarity was, Delaney’s mother told Harding to pick up the child from the car.
The boy did not flinch when he was held by Harding, at least until they entered the bakery and saw his mother inside.
Beyond their physical similarities, the two share roots of the west coast, after having grown up three hours from each other on the island of Vancouver: Delaney in like, BC and Harding in Victoria.
“We have enough in common,” Harding said. “We are both entrepreneurs … Our voices are similar and our gestures are also the same.”
The couple can unlock the phones with their faces, something they have discovered during multiple meetings in the last year. They have approached so much that Delaney even made the cake for Harding’s wedding and took him to the island for the celebration.
Atrolled for their connection, Harding and Delaney took a DNA test this fall to see if their relationship was just friendship or family.
“It turns out that we are not related at all,” said Harding.
Test 23 and I look back four generations, but because both Harding and Delaney are feminine, there is no chromosome and involved. As a result, he shows anything on the side of his DNA father or possible matches.
“Apparently that side is a bit more murky, genetically speaking,” he said.
They hope to do more tests with other relatives to see if there is a connection further back, but for now the friendship they have formed means more than shared relatives.
And their appearances still catch them off guard.
“You feel that you are looking most of the time,” said Delaney. His son still responds to videos and photos of Harding Online, exclaiming “Mom!”
For his part, Harding says he is still with photos of Delaney online and makes a double shot. Years of friendship have made no difference in their reaction to their surprising similarity.
“Today is even more trippy.”
