South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott is now a married man.
The Republican lawmaker and one-time presidential candidate wed Mindy Noce on Saturday at their house church in Mount Nice, South Carolina, in keeping with a number of retailers, together with native paper The Submit and Courier.
“Tonight, we promised to cherish and nourish each other and our marriage for the rest of our lives,” he later posted on Fb with pictures from the ceremony.
Amongst these in attendance have been Republican Sens. John Thune (S.D.), Lindsey Graham (S.C.), James Lankford (Okla.), and John Barrasso (Wyo.), former Speaker of the Home Kevin McCarthy (Calif.), former Sen. Cory Gardner (Colo.), former Rep. Trey Gowdy (S.C.), and former Tennessee Gov. Invoice Haslam, in keeping with native station WCBD.
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Former President Donald Trump expressed his congratulations to the couple on social media.
“You have a GREAT future. God bless you both!” he wrote.
The ceremony comes roughly six months after the couple introduced their whirlwind engagement, and 9 months after their relationship was first put within the public highlight.
Noce, 47, a beforehand married inside designer and mom of three who resides in Charleston, was first publicly launched as Scott’s accomplice whereas he was campaigning for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination in November and had simply wrapped up a major debate in Miami. Scott, 58, on the time stated that he and Noce had been courting for a number of months.
Her primetime TV debut adopted Scott repeatedly getting hammered about his relationship standing whereas on the marketing campaign path. It was identified that an unwed man hadn’t been elected president since Grover Cleveland in 1884, and Cleveland later married whereas within the White Home. High GOP donors additionally reportedly expressed concern about his bachelor standing.
Scott on the time dismissed such opinions about his relationship standing as archaic.
“It sounds like we’re living in 1963 and not 2023,” Scott informed Axios final yr.
In an interview Friday with The Submit and Courier, Scott stated he prayed for a spouse almost each week for the final 30 years. However in the present day he’s grateful to have met Noce precisely when he did.
“Part of the blessing for me was not getting married before now,” he stated, saying that he wanted extra time for self-growth. “Right girl, wrong time is a mess. Wrong girl, right time is chaos.”
