Boston Bride Meets Tom Brady Hours Before Her Wedding: Her First Look Was With Her Idol, Not the Groom
On Saturday, November 7, in Boston, Massachusetts, 30-year-old bride Lauren Andriolo was getting ready in her suite at The Langham, Boston, hours before her wedding ceremony, when her bridesmaid's husband, Jake, spotted former New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady staying on the same floor and the room began buzzing. According to PEOPLE, Andriolo, a lifelong Patriots fan, caught up with Brady at the end of the corridor on the same floor as her getting-ready suite; he posed for a photo and offered a quick congratulations and a wonderful wedding day wish. The day after the wedding, makeup artist Celena Hanson posted a video of the impromptu interaction on Instagram, and it has gone viral after being reposted by fans across multiple social media platforms.
According to PEOPLE, Hanson's makeup work was not finished, but she quickly glued on some lashes and lined the bride's lips before the robe-clad Andriolo jumped out of the makeup chair and rushed out the door. "He obliged a Boston bride lifelong Patriots fan with a photo before saying 'I do,'" Andriolo told PEOPLE. "It was a quick interaction but he offered a quick congratulations and a wonderful wedding day before my first look with my husband." She added: "It was a whirlwind from start to finish but it was some added excitement before our ceremony for sure. Meeting Tom just added to the excitement and buzz of the day."
Brady was in town that weekend for his former teammate Rob Gronkowski's induction into the Patriots Hall of Fame: an official red-jacket ceremony outside Gillette Stadium in Foxborough on Saturday, a halftime recognition during the Patriots' home game against the Green Bay Packers on Sunday, and a Sunday shift in the Fox Sports broadcast booth. According to PEOPLE, he took a few minutes for the encounter before he left Boston for Foxborough on Saturday.
After the photo, Andriolo immediately texted it to her husband-to-be, 32-year-old Nick Andriolo, without any explanation. According to PEOPLE, he replied "OMG" in all caps, and Andriolo says he was super excited for her. According to Sports Illustrated, the couple live in Watertown, Massachusetts, and are longtime Patriots fans, and there was a fitting coincidence: Andriolo had 12 people standing alongside her on her big day, matching Brady's iconic No. 12 jersey from his 20 seasons in New England.
Brady, 49, is a seven-time Super Bowl champion widely regarded as the greatest quarterback in NFL history; he retired in 2023 and now works as a Fox Sports analyst. Andriolo is an event planner. According to Sports Illustrated, after the wedding the newlyweds headed to Maine for a short honeymoon, with the bride's first look with her idol, rather than the groom, as the story they will be telling for years.
Source: PEOPLE
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Photo: 图：Tom Brady 本人资料图（2011年摄，Jeffrey Beall 摄，CC BY-SA 3.0，经 Wikimedia Commons），已预裁为精确16:9成品（头部完整留边、双眼睁开）。/ Tom Brady (file photo from 2011, by Jeffrey Beall, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons), pre-cropped to an exact 16:9 frame with his head fully in frame and eyes open.
