Hulk star joins couple for wedding day
A COUPLE were left stunned when Hulk star Mark Ruffalo “gatecrashed” their wedding.
The Hollywood actor chatted to Klaire Hodgson and Lynz Tanner moments before their open air ceremony in Central Park, New York.
It was a “special” moment on what was already the best day of her life last Saturday, said Klaire, 36.
The couple had decided to get married in the US after Klaire flew to a conference in San Francisco then on to an event in New York, where Lynz, 28, who is a bar manager, joined her.
Klaire said: “Lynz proposed to me last June and we’d gone through about a million different wedding ideas... I was already going to America for a couple of weeks. I was going to San Francisco for a work conference. And the week after I was going to do volunteer work with an LGBT youth group. We’d been asked to go to New York (for that) to share ideas.
“Then I said ‘Why don’t we get married in New York!’ This was a week before I was leaving for America. I told my parents and some family.”
The couple did some research from their Gwynedd home and found a wedding official who they arranged to meet in Central Park with their best man Kayley Roberts.
Klaire said: “We ended up giving the video link to our family and a couple of friends. It was quite funny because on the day we were starting up the video link in Central Park Mark Ruffalo must have seen what was going on because he detoured over to us.
“Everybody was on the phone call and all of a sudden this guy starts slowly walking over. He stopped and he’s saying ‘Hello’.
“I think he was waiting for us to recognise him. I noticed he had a really nice camera and I was thinking ‘Oh, he must do photography’. But I thought ‘I can’t know this guy. I’m in New York, I don’t know anyone in New York.’
“He started walking down a bit and I turned around and Lynz and Kayley are looking at each other. And I said ‘I think I know that guy’ and Lynz said ‘Is that Mark Ruffalo?’.
“And she turns around just as he’s walking away and said ‘Oh my God, Mark Ruffalo!’ And then he turned round and was like ‘Hey!’. He came back over then. He was absolutely lovely. He was so nice.” The star posed for a photo.
Klaire said: “I had no idea what to do with my arms. Later he shook my hand about three times and said ‘Aw I’m so happy for you’. He was so super-nice. He was just a regular guy.”
Ruffalo played Dr Bruce Banner/ Hulk in the Marvel Cinematic Universe franchise film The Avengers, and stars with Wrexham AFC’s joint owner Ryan Reynolds in The Adam Project.
Klaire said: “It was amazing that we got married in Central Park. It was so magical and the whole day was beautiful and then Mark Ruffalo turning up and being in pictures with us, it did make it extra special.”
Klaire, creative director for Animated Technologies, admits that the pair are quite “nerdy”.
On their wedding suits they had Star Trek “communication” badges.
Klaire said: “So for The Hulk to turn up was pretty cool! Of all the people, of all the genres of film or TV or anything to have turned up to our nerdy wedding!”