Weddings, just like life, are like a box of chocolates: you never know what you’re going to get. Or at least that was true for one stunned bride who unexpectedly met Oscar Award-winning actor Tom Hanks on her wedding day Saturday.
While taking photos with her bridal party outside their hotel in Pittsburgh, bride Grace Gwaltney said their session was interrupted when Hanks, 65, approached to introduce himself and congratulate the bride. Read more: Amanda Bynes released from conservatorship after nearly 9 years Hanks is in Pittsburgh currently filming the movie A Man Called Otto, where he is set to play an elderly man who befriends his neighbours. “At first I thought it was a random person on the street just wanting to say congratulations, but when I heard, ‘Hey, I’m Tom Hanks,’ I immediately froze and just became speechless,” Gwaltney told Good Morning America.
Gwaltney said she and her bridal party were in “disbelief.” Wedding photographer Rachel Rowland snapped several photos of the bride and bridal party with Hanks.
Rowland told Good Morning America, “He just came up, very jovial, happy, exactly what you would think Tom Hanks would do.” Hanks’ wife Rita Wilson also posed for photos with the bride.