If you plan to get married this Spring and see an unfamiliar
but friendly face bouncing towards you at the reception, don't
assume it's the distant relative of your new spouse you simply
haven't met yet. You might just be the latest couple to meet Noah
Carpenter, international wedding crasher
extraordinaire.
But unlike the raunchy heroes of the hit 2005 comedy 'Wedding
Crashers,' Carpenter isn't trying to meet women. He just wants to
take a smiling picture with the happy couple.
A senior at St. Joseph's University in Philadelphia who'll
graduate with a degree in philosophy this May,
Carpenter came up with his unique hobby after running into a series
of weddings randomly in 2011.
'My first crashing was October 13, 2011," he told
BroBible. 'I was studying abroad at the time, and in
the month leading up to the first time, I had seen four or five
couples already. So I figured this was something I might be seeing
consistently, and I thought, 'Who in the world has an album of
pictures with random wedding couples?''
Since then, Carpenter has amassed an impressive collection of
pictures of himself celebrating at random nuptials across the
world.
Noah doesn't go looking for weddings, but if he comes across one he
makes sure to see if he can add a photo to a collection he refuses
to abandon until he has enough to fill a coffee table book.
So far he only displays eight
photos on his Facebook page.
He said he didn't have any
particular wedding he was hoping to crash, but that he had had some
funny encounters while hunting for new
pictures.
'
The two couples in England
were Brazilian, and after I took the picture, both of the brides
asked for money. When I asked why, they responded in broken
English, 'Because we allowed you to capture our beauty,'' he
recalled.
'I laughed and told them that
if that was the case, they should be paying me. They didn't take
that too well, but fortunately their new husbands caught my
humor.'
So far Noah's collection isn't even
two years old. Who knows how many more pictures he'll collect in
the U.S. once this year's wedding season starts?
