Beau Noir was avoiding one big wedding detail, who would walk her down the aisle. Raised by a single mother who had passed away, with her father not in her life, she assumed she’d make the walk solo. “I didn’t have much of a plan. I was trying to avoid some of the feelings behind that,” she said. “It was just a lot.”
But then came Gill Pulliam.
The co-owner of the building where Beau met her now-husband Victor Fox, Pulliam had been a cheerful constant in their work life. He even played an indirect role in the couple’s love story. “He introduced himself and kept trying to make me smile. Ever since then, we’ve been inseparable,” Beau said of her first meeting with Fox at a photoshoot in 2019.
Years later, as wedding planning got underway, a quiet moment with Pulliam revealed his own grief: he had recently lost his wife. “We bonded over grief because we had those things in common,” Beau said. That moment sparked something deeper.
Three months before the big day, Pulliam surprised her. “He sat me down and asked me, which I thought was so sweet,” she recalled. “I’ve never had a man sit me down and do something so honorable.”
She said yes, and Gill took his role seriously. He bought a new suit, watched TikToks she sent him for aisle-walking tips, and checked in on every detail. “He was hands-on. He didn’t play about his role,” Beau laughed.
On July 6 in Newport, Kentucky, right in the studio where Victor’s photography career began, Gill took Beau’s hand. “He grabbed my hand so stern… It kind of shook me. It was almost like, ‘I’m here for you,’” she said. Her wedding day? “A fairytale.”
Back from their honeymoon, Beau and Victor returned to find Gill had proudly shown their photos to everyone in the building. When Beau shared them online, the internet melted. Nearly 100,000 people liked the post. “Getting that type of support from somebody who is not blood related is causing people to have emotions,” she said. “Love has no color.”
Pulliam doesn’t even know he went viral. “He lives in his own bubble. He puts his phone on DND after 4 p.m.,” Beau said with a smile. “The first day he saw me after the wedding, he grabbed my cheeks like I was a 5-year-old girl, like, ‘I’m so proud of you.’”
“You can love whoever, whenever. If your heart is pure, that’s all that matters.”
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