Surprise Tulsa Wedding Guest

Some Tulsa wedding guests were seeing stars this weekend. The most powerful woman in television turned Tulsa into "Oprahoma" as she crashed two downtown wedding receptions.<br/><br/>News on 6 reporter

Sunday, June 4th 2006, 4:42 pm

By: News On 6

Some Tulsa wedding guests were seeing stars this weekend. The most powerful woman in television turned Tulsa into "Oprahoma" as she crashed two downtown wedding receptions.

News on 6 reporter Joshua Brakhage talked with both brides and has the exclusive look inside the parties.

They say this makes it official, Oprah's signature just above her friend Gayle King's - in Morgan and Bethany Francis' guest book.

Bethany Francis: "I tried to compose myself, but there's no way you can do it when there's someone that famous in the room."

Bethany says Oprah barged into her reception, congratulated her and her new husband, and then delivered her wedding gift: dishes from Dillards. Guest Judy Pattinson spotted her shopping earlier in the day.

Judy Pattinson: "But the security guards had us about 50 feet away. Everyone was taking pictures with their cell phones, so."

As the bride was interviewed by Oprah producers, other wedding guests had close encounters with the talk show host.

Jeanette Johnson: "As she was walking away, I said, 'Oprah, I think you're so wonderful' and she looked at me and said, 'I think you are too.' She was real sweet."

After she hit the party at the Petroleum club, she crossed the street to the Summit club, and crashed wedding number two.

Ben and Heather Klein were celebrating their first night as man and wife. Guests said they weren't sure it was Oprah until she lifted her straw hat.

Austin Zellner: "I've never seen so many people in tuxes, and nice formal dresses horde in one place so fast in my entire life."

Heather Klein: "We were just in shock. I mean, we were truly in shock.

Ben Klein: "And then all the screaming began. One thing lead to another and here we are so."

Oprah stayed and posed for pictures with the wedding party. But guests say she was off within ten minutes. The couple said it was a night they'd remember no matter what. Oprah's surprise appearance just makes it a better story to tell.

Bride Bethany Francis told me Oprah said she was hitting 16 weddings, and just found the two in Tulsa on the Internet.

The footage her crews shot Saturday night should air on her show sometime in September.
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Photo courtesy - Jim Mixon Wedding Videos