--- title: Barack Obama Crashes Wedding on Golf Course in San Diego description: President Barack Obama crashed a wedding at San Diego golf course Torrey Pines canonical: https://time.com/4071312/president-barack-obama-san-diego-wedding/ author: Olivia B. 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When the President completed his game at the 18th hole, he walked over to the wedding ceremony and posed for photos with the groom, Brian Tobe, and his bride-to-be, Stephanie, who was so shocked and excited that she started to cry, [NBC San Diego reports.](http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/San-Diego-Couple-Meets-President-at-Their-Wedding-332184182.html) The President and the groom briefly chatted about some of their common interests, given the groom is a psychiatrist at the VA in San Diego who got an MD and PhD at University of Chicago, where the President [taught](http://www.law.uchicago.edu/media) at the law school. Before the President left, he apologized for delaying their ceremony, and gave the groom one piece of advice: “He saw my foot on the train of the wedding dress, and he says ‘oops, can’t put your foot on the wedding dress there,’” Tobe told [10 News](http://www.10news.com/news/president-obama-crashes-san-diego-wedding-to-the-delight-of-bride-groom-101215http://www.10news.com/news/president-obama-crashes-san-diego-wedding-to-the-delight-of-bride-groom-101215). Last year, [Bloomberg reported](http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2014-12-29/soldiers-relocate-wedding-to-accommodate-obamas-golf-game) that the President had to apologize to a military couple that had to relocate their wedding because he was playing golf at the course on a marine base in Hawaii where they planned to get married. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4071312/president-barack-obama-san-diego-wedding/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4071312/president-barack-obama-san-diego-wedding/"},"headline":"President Obama Crashed a Wedding at a Golf Course","datePublished":"2015-10-13T15:13:33.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:25:56.298Z","description":"Needless to say, the wedding day was a hole-in-one","url":"https://time.com/4071312/president-barack-obama-san-diego-wedding/","keywords":["Newsfeed","celebrities","U.S."],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Olivia B. 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