Beau Noir was avoiding thinking about who would walk her down the aisle. Then she got an unexpected offer.

Beau Noir couldn’t wait to marry her fiancé, Victor Fox, in what she calls her “fairytale” wedding. But there was one element of the event she couldn’t fathom: Her wedding processional.

“I didn’t have much of a plan. I was trying to avoid some of the feelings behind that,” she says. “It was just a lot.”

Noir was raised by a single mother who has since passed away and her father wasn’t in her life. Because of that, she assumed she would walk down the aisle by herself.

Then along came Gill Pulliam.

Beau has known Pulliam for as long as she’s known her husband. In fact, Pulliam had a major role in Noir and Fox’s love story — he owned the building where the now-couple first met in 2019.

The day that Noir, a makeup artist, met her now-husband, she had scheduled a photoshoot. When stepped into the studio, the photographer’s colleague immediately took notice and stepped in to take Noir’s photos. That helpful colleague turned out to be Fox.

“He introduced himself and kept trying to make me smile. Ever since then, we’ve been inseparable,” Noir says.

Noir says she’s fallen in love with Fox “at least” 10 times since they met. “I never thought I could fall in love with a man more than once,” she says.

Soon after they started dating, Fox convinced Noir to move her makeup studio to the same building where they first met, since the property rents out spaces to entrepreneurs. She and Fox eventually opened a joint business: She does clients’ makeup and he takes their photos.

Pulliam, the building’s co-owner, is a “lively, jolly” and constant presence at work, according to Noir. “He’s always good vibes.”

But it was only earlier this year that Noir and Pulliam connected on a deeper level. During a rare lull in clients, Noir was able to have a longer conversation with Pulliam, in which he revealed the death of his wife to Noir. She had passed earlier that same year, and Pulliam was still living in the nursing home his wife had been living during her death.

“We had no idea,” Noir says. “I gave him a hug because I was like, ‘Oh my god, like he he’s taking his time to be vulnerable with me. I can’t imagine how long he has held this in.’”

As their relationship developed over subsequent conversations, Noir opened up about her own life and losses. “We bonded over grief because we had those things in common,” she says.

With Fox and Noir’s wedding approaching, Pulliam got an idea: What if he walked the soon-to-be bride down the aisle? Pulliam first consulted the building’s other co-owner, who encouraged him to ask Fox. After Fox gave the OK, he brought up the idea with Noir herself about three months before the wedding.

“He sat me down and asked me, which I thought was so sweet,” she recalls. “I’ve never had a man sit me down and do something so honorable.”

In that moment, Noir says she felt a mix of emotions.

“I felt happiness and joy, and I guess, a little bit of sadness. Not in a bad way — more in a way of like, ‘Wow. He sees that I don’t have that in my corner.’ He wanted to be there and provide it.”

From then on, Pulliam was “super involved” in the wedding planning. “He was hands on. He didn’t play about his role,” she says.

Pulliam bought a new suit and asked how she wanted to be walked down the aisle. Noir, who had been avoiding this topic entirely, didn’t know how to answer. Instead, she turned to the internet for advice.

“I went on TikTok to send him some videos — and he actually watched all the stuff I sent him,” she says.

The wedding took place in Newport, Kentucky, in the photo studio where Fox started his career, on July 6 of this year. The date was chosen deliberately: Beau’s birthday is on July 4 and she got engaged on July 5.

The day of the wedding, Noir says Pulliam wanted her to feel “as comfortable as possible.”

“He grabbed my hand so stern — I didn’t even know he had that much grip. It kind of shook me, because, again, he’s just like a little happy jolly man. It was almost like, ‘I’m here for you,’” she says of their walk down the aisle.

By the time the newlyweds got back from their honeymoon, other building tenants had heard all about Noir and Fox’s wedding day.

“Gill went around and showed everyone the pictures. By the time we got back to work, people said, ‘Gil already told us,’’ she says.

Once Noir received her wedding photos, she posted about Pulliam’s gesture on Facebook and the pictures quickly went viral, amassing nearly 100,000 likes amid a flood of supportive comments.

“Getting that type of support from somebody who is not blood related is causing people to have emotions. That was so generous, that was so thoughtful,” she says of the experience, which has shown her that “love has no color.”

“You can love whoever, whenever. If your heart is pure, that’s all that matters,” she says.

Moving forward, the Foxes say Pulliam will remain in their lives.

“He’s just so excited. 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,’” she says.

As for whether Pulliam knows he’s an internet celebrity? Hardly.

“He lives in his own bubble,” she says. “I don’t think he knows the altitude of viral things on the internet. He puts his phone on DND after 4 p.m.”

“I told him what happened. He was like, ‘OK’, and then he went right back to talking about the wedding.”