Hanks continued his long-running streak of guest appearances at public weddings when he interrupted a couple's beach wedding.
Immediately after tying the knot, newly-weds Diciembre and Tashia Farries were posing for photographs on California's Santa Monica beach when they were spotted by the Forrest Gump star.
Hanks approached the Farries and screamed "Get out!" upon being told they had just gotten married. The actor posed for photos with the couple and their one-year-old child before chatting with guests.
"He said he noticed the ceremony and gave us many compliments and just said we looked beautiful," Tashia Farries said. "He gave us love advice and was just so positive and humble."
In a video posted to Instagram, one guest can be heard exclaiming "It's Woody from Toy Story!"
Hanks has a long history of making unexpected appearances at weddings.
In 2008 Hanks was shooting the Dan Brown adaptation Angels & Demons at a church in Rome. When he realised the film crew was getting in the way of a bride-to-be, Hanks halted filming before taking the young woman by the hand and escorting her into the church with her father.
Once, in 2008, when Tom Hanks was shooting “Angels & Demons” in Rome by the Pantheon, a bride and her father couldn’t approach the chapel because of the hullabaloo, so Hanks stopped filming to escort them to the altar. pic.twitter.com/XcG4vaclIr
— Steve Goldberg (@Steve_Goldberg) November 13, 2019
In 2016, a just married bride and groom named Elisabeth and Ryan were posing for photos in New York's Central Park. Hanks was jogging in the park when he ran into the couple.
"He took off his hat and sunglasses and just leaned right in and said, like, 'Hi, I'm Tom Hanks,'" the couple's photographer Meg Miller recalled. "He offered to do the ceremony for them; he said he was an officiant." (Hanks became an ordained minister in 2017, and as such has the power to conduct marriage ceremonies.)
"He asked them their names and he liked Elisabeth's name 'cause that's his daughter's name," Miller added. "We were all in shock."
Miller wasted no time in capturing the moment on film.
"At that point I knew, the couple is going to definitely need this in their wedding album," she said. "I don't think I've ever photographed so quickly. I was just praying my [camera] settings were right."
Elizabeth and Ryan! Congrats and blessings! Hanx. pic.twitter.com/Uy2GIqYphU
— Tom Hanks (@tomhanks) September 24, 2016
In 2018 bride-to-be Kristen Jerkins sent Hanks an invitation to her upcoming wedding, assuming the actor would ignore her request.
Jerkins was shocked when Hanks sent her a letter typed on a typewriter from his world famous collection, along with a photo of himself. Hanks explained he was unable to attend due to rehearsing for a play. As a consolation he invited Jerkins and her husband to attend the show in Los Angeles.
"Dang it, but I am in rehearsals for a play here in Los Angeles starting in May," Hanks wrote. "Gotta send regrets. Congratulations you kooky kids."
Speaking of letters, an Edinburgh typewriter mechanic recently received a typed letter from Hanks, who hailed him as a "hero" for his commitment to keeping typewriters alive.
Tom Hodges, owner of Edinburgh bookshop Typewronger Books, sent the actor a letter, knowing of his love of typewriters.
"I receive letters from people all the time and they are all precious to me but it is not every day you receive one from a Hollywood legend and they call you their hero," Hodges said of the response he received from Hanks. "I love all his films but I also love the fact he is such a fan of typewriters. It is a gorgeous letter and I am made up about it. It’s all been a bit surreal. It will be framed and have pride of place in the bookshop."
