Transcription puzzle - bride and groom mix-up

[clairec666]

I'm transcribing Essex parish registers for FreeREG and have come across a strange entry in the marriage registers. The bride and groom are John Binks and Mary Roberts, but the people who sign the register are Thos Hammond? and Mary Keys! Who are they?!

Lo and behold, in the next entry (which is overleaf but on the same date), Thomas Hammond marries Mary Keys but the signatures are for John Binks and Mary Robards.

I'm sticking to the mantra of "transcribe what you see", so I'm transcribing the names as written by the curate and putting an explanation in the "notes" column about the signatures not matching. The only different in detail between the two marriages is the names of the witnesses.

Anyone else come across something like this, and how would you transcribe it?

[clairec666]

Added: clip of the register

[Norfolkman47]

Looking at the witnesses, one sees that the two bridegrooms were witnesses for each other's ceremony. One can see how there might have been some confusion about who was meant to sign which register entry - and where.

[clairec666]

Looking at the witnesses, one sees that the two bridegrooms were witnesses for each other's ceremony. One can see how there might have been some confusion about who was meant to sign which register entry - and where.

Yes, and the curate may have contributed to the mix-up since he wrote John Binks's name for him to sign "x" next to.

[Viktoria]

When my daughter married the elderly and semi retired Vicar got well and truly confused.
We have a photograph when bride and groom noticed what has happened.
He had my daughter with her first Christian name but the second Christian name of her husband,and he had her second name.
We had to appeal to the Bishop  to get another copy,as it is a legal document.
All sorted eventually but the Vicar’s reaction  when I was at church  the next morning was not helpful at all.
The photograph is hilarious.
Viktoria.

[Pheno]

Sort of similar with my parents when they got married in 1947.

On receiving their certificate my mum was married to the bridegroom of the following wedding and similarly my dad was married to the following bride!  Both grooms were called Ronald and both brides Joyce but the certificate had the wrong pairings.

I'm told that took a bit of sorting out.

Pheno

[clairec666]

Sort of similar with my parents when they got married in 1947.

On receiving their certificate my mum was married to the bridegroom of the following wedding and similarly my dad was married to the following bride!  Both grooms were called Ronald and both brides Joyce but the certificate had the wrong pairings.

I'm told that took a bit of sorting out.

Pheno

That would be a bit of a nightmare if they needed the marriage certificate for any legal stuff!

[Maiden Stone]

If only they'd all gone to Spectacle Savers. 
I wonder if there was ever a similar mix-up among couples who married in multiple weddings at Manchester Cathedral.

[Rosinish]

"Anyone else come across something like this, and how would you transcribe it?"

Claire...no other way than how it is but certainly add a note with your discovery & hopefully it will be acknowledged but keep a ref. to it for yourself & if not, when it goes online you can add a note then?

Annie