Senator Tim Scott is no longer single!
Scott, 58, married interior designer Mindy North, 47, on Saturday in an intimate ceremony at his hometown chapel, Seacoast Church, in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina.
“Tonight we vowed to cherish and nurture each other and our marriage for the rest of our lives,” Scott said in an X accompanying a photo from the ceremony. “Mindy, you make me the happiest man in the world. I love you.”
The wedding was officiated by the Rev. Greg Surratt, founder of Seacoast and an adviser to Scott’s Republican presidential campaign. Postal and courier services.
Scott’s brother, Ben, served as groomsman, and Noth’s best friend, Joni Blair, whom she met in college, served as a bridesmaid.
North, a Charleston-based design and renovation consultant and mother of three, met Scott in 2022 through mutual friends from church.
According to The Washington Post, Scott described his bride as a “lovely Christian girl” and the pair hit it off after using a Bible study app together.
After much speculation about the South Carolina senator’s romance, the couple made their first public appearance at the third Republican presidential debate in November.
Prior to the campaign kickoff, Scott said he had no intention of dragging Noth onto the campaign trail unless he intended to marry her.
Scott, who had been single his whole life, proposed to Noth in January on Kiawah Island, South Carolina, and announced their engagement in a social media post.
“She said yes,” Scott said. Tweeted On January 21, he posted a photo of the couple on a beach in Kiawah Island with the message, “Mindy, thank you for making me the luckiest man in the world.”
Guests inside the chapel included former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and Senate Minority Whip John Thune of South Dakota.
Also in attendance, according to The Post and Courier, were Sens. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, James Lankford of Oklahoma, John Barrasso of Pennsylvania, former Rep. Mark Walker of North Carolina, former Gov. Bill Haslam of Tennessee and former Rep. Trey Gowdy of South Carolina.
The two-term Republican senator called his wedding a “blessing.”
“I’ve been blessed to never have been married until now,” Scott told the outlet, adding that it took him a while to learn the hard truth about love, which, in his words, is “right woman, wrong time, wreck; wrong woman, right time, wreck.”
“I think like everyone else, we want what we want quite selfishly. I think marriage helps you realize that maybe your only mission on earth is not to get what you want. It’s also about helping other people enjoy their journey through life and being ambassadors of hope,” he said.
Senator Scott was seen as one of the leading candidates to be Donald Trump’s running mate after former President Trump decided not to run for the Republican nomination earlier this year.
Trump ultimately chose Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance as his running mate at the Republican National Convention in July.
