What do you do when the new person you’re dating suggests crashing a wedding on your first date? You say “yes” if you want to have the time of your life.
That’s exactly what Ritchie Barry said when Carly Wolfson challenged him to crashing Mike and Karen Tufo’s New Jersey wedding on their very first date.
“I didn’t think he was going to go through with it,” Wolfson told CBS2. “I was just like, I’m picking you up at this time, what’s your address? Get ready! And he came out all dressed up. So I was like, alright I guess we’re doing this.”
In preparation for their date they came up with outfits and even created a backstory that involved a phony engagement ring. When they arrived they almost backed out at the last minute.
“Come in right behind the bride, like literally right behind her,” Wolfson said of her arrival to the wedding. “I freak out, shut the doors.”
In order to get a seat, they told the servers that there was no place card for them and they ended up getting seated at the best man’s table.
After that they knew they had to blend in and decided to pull everyone at the table onto the dance floor.
“In the center of the circle, just dancing all over the place, like right up in our face and photobombing every picture that we took,” Maria Fatzer, a guest at the wedding, said of Wolfson and Barry.
They avoided the bride and groom throughout the wedding but made sure they left them a wedding gift: a $1 bill, card of congratulations explaining that they crashed their wedding and a Polaroid picture of them.
“Congratulations, sorry for crashing your wedding and best of luck!” the card read.
“We laughed,” Karen Tufo said of when she discovered the card. “We were like, oh my gosh, we got wedding crashed. That’s funny. I want to shake their hands and tell them good job.”
Karen Tufo said she suspected they didn’t belonged but brushed it off as someone she didn’t meet yet.
“We knew from the second we saw them, they didn’t belong,” Karen Tufo told CBS2. “When they first sat down, the table called them Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn.”
Karen Tufo ended up finding the couple on Facebook after she found the card.
“I’d like to thank everyone who shared our special day with us… especially these 2!” she wrote on Facebook. “Well played my friends… well played!!! I need to meet these people and buy them a drink. Professional job!”
When CBS2 aired the story Wolfson reached out to Karen Tufo on Facebook.
“I was like I’m so sorry,” Wolfson said. “She was like, don’t be sorry. Best gift ever!”
Karen Tufo says that if Wolfson and Barry further their relationship, she would definitely crash their wedding but she’ll likely just get an invitation.
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