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 home church in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, according to multiple outlets, including local paper The Post and Courier.
“Tonight, we promised to cherish and nourish each other and our marriage for the rest of our lives,” he later posted on Facebook with photos from the ceremony.
Among those in attendance were Republican Sens. John Thune (S.D.), Lindsey Graham (S.C.), James Lankford (Okla.), and John Barrasso (Wyo.), former Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy (Calif.), former Sen. Cory Gardner (Colo.), former Rep. Trey Gowdy (S.C.), and former Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam, according to local 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 announced their whirlwind engagement, and nine months after their relationship was first put in the public spotlight.
Noce, 47, a previously married interior designer and mother of three who resides in Charleston, was first publicly introduced as Scott’s partner while he was campaigning for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination in November and had just wrapped up a primary debate in Miami. Scott, 58, at the time said that he and Noce had been dating for several months.
Her primetime TV debut followed Scott repeatedly getting hammered about his relationship status while on the campaign trail. It was pointed out that an unwed man hadn’t been elected president since Grover Cleveland in 1884, and Cleveland later married while in the White House. Top GOP donors also reportedly expressed concern about his bachelor status.
Scott at the time dismissed such opinions about his relationship status as archaic.
“It sounds like we’re living in 1963 and not 2023,” Scott told Axios last year.
In an interview Friday with The Post and Courier, Scott said he prayed for a wife nearly every week for the last 30 years. But today he’s grateful to have met Noce exactly when he did.
“Part of the blessing for me was not getting married before now,” he said, saying that he needed more time for self-growth. “Right girl, wrong time is a mess. Wrong girl, right time is chaos.”