Actor Tom Hanks ultimately surprised a Pennsylvania bride by asking her to take pictures with him on her wedding day.
Shortly after her wedding ceremony on Saturday, the bride, Grace Gwaltney, was walking back to a limousine when Hanks approached and asked her to take a photo with him, according to Rachel Rowland, the wedding photographer.
“We all started screaming once we realized it was really him. I always told myself if I met him I would tell him how important he is and how poignant his movies are, and when I met him, I just screamed,” Rowland told The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review.
Hanks, 65, and his wife, Rita Wilson, also 65, posed for a few shots together with the bride and bridesmaids, congratulated everyone, and then left as swiftly as they came.
Rowland said praised Hanks in an interview with the Tribune, adding that the bride is the kind and perfect person for this to happen to.
“Tom Hanks is such a gem and a treasure,” Rowland told the Tribune-Review. “Candid shots are the ones people remember … the excitement, the hugs, the tears, the photos you feel.”
Hanks is in Pittsburgh shooting the movie “A Man Called Otto, ”in which he plays a grumpy retiree who becomes friends with his neighbors.
