SC Sen. Tim Scott is no longer a bachelor as he ties the knot in Mt. Pleasant ceremony
U.S. Sen. Tim Scott is now a married man.
The lifelong bachelor on Saturday married Charleston-area interior designer Mindy Noce in a private ceremony at Seacoast Church in Mount Pleasant.
“Tonight, we promised to cherish and nourish each other and our marriage for the rest of our lives,” Scott said in a post on X. “Mindy, you’ve made me the happiest man alive. I love you.”
Scott, the Senate’s only Black Republican, disclosed he was dating a woman during his presidential campaign in 2023, but the two didn’t make a public appearance together until November after a GOP presidential debate in Miami.
The couple met through a mutual friends at church. They began having Bible study with each other and enjoy playing pickleball together, Scott’s campaign said.
“I’ve been a bachelor for 58 years. I’ve been praying Proverbs 18:22 ‘that he who finds a wife finds a good thing and obtains favor from the Lord’ for 30 years,” Scott told South Carolina delegates to the Republican National Convention last month, a comment which received laughs from the crowd while talking about his then fiance.
“I’ve been saying to God, ‘seriously, can you hear me?’ ” Scott joked. “He responded by the way, ‘I hear you, but you ain’t doing your part’.”
Scott, who dropped out of the presidential race in November, previously kept his significant other out of the limelight. He briefly disclosed he had a significant other during an interview with Axios last summer and then reluctantly discussed the relationship with the Washington Post.
He proposed to Noce, who has three children, in January on Kiawah Island.
“Mindy, thank you for making me the luckiest man in the world,” Scott posted on X after proposing.
Among the guests at the wedding were Republican U.S. Sens. John Barrasso, of Wyoming, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, James Lankford of Oklahoma and John Thune of South Dakota, former Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy, former South Carolina U.S. Rep. Trey Gowdy and former Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam.
The ceremony was officiated by Seacoast Church’s founding pastor Greg Surratt.
The couple’s first dance was to “Swayin’ to the Music (Slow Dancin’)“ by Johnny Rivers.
