A bride was handled to an surprising encounter with Tom Hanks when the well-known actor ran into the marriage get together as they exited their downtown Pittsburgh lodge en path to the ceremony.
Hanks, who’s at present in Pittsburgh filming the film “A Man Referred to as Otto,” bumped into the group as they had been exiting the Fairmont Resort. Grace Gwaltney, the bride, was about to enter a ready limousine when the actor got here up behind them.
Rachel Rowland, a Pittsburgh wedding ceremony photographer, remembers the fun-filled encounter.
“We had been leaving the lodge (he’s staying there whereas filming a film right here) and getting on to the limo when he actually ran up behind the bride,” she tells PetaPixel.
“We had been all fairly shocked and I simply began snapping to get some good candids. He mentioned, “my identify is Tom Hanks! Can I take a photograph with the bride?” and simply joyfully laughed and posed.”
Hanks’s spouse, Rita Wilson, was additionally current and Rowland says she inspired her to additionally be part of within the images, who obliged them.
Rowland says that she did her finest to react to the utterly surprising second and managed to get a couple of images earlier than Hanks mentioned his goodbyes and took off.
“All of us misplaced it,” Rowland continues. “The bridesmaids shuffled out of the limo, and he posed with images and congratulated everybody, after which as quick as he popped in, he was gone. It was simply so candy and enjoyable!”
In an interview with KCRA, Gwaltney says she was caught off guard by the encounter and froze, uncertain what to do. She was so shocked by the incident she wasn’t positive it was him at first.
“It’s his voice, I feel,” she says. “You see him after which he begins talking… He was speaking in my ear and I’m pondering of Toy Story.”
Gwaltney says she couldn’t wait to inform her soon-to-be-husband in regards to the encounter and whereas they had been going through again to again for his or her first look, she whispered that she had simply met Tom Hanks.
“I needed to sneak that in!” she says, laughing.
“I’m positive lots of different Pittsburgh brides would like to have him photobomb their pictures,” Gwaltney provides.
Little question, Gwaltney can have no hassle remembering her wedding ceremony day.
Picture credit: All images by Rachel Rowland.
