A bride from Ohio had an unforgettable wedding day when her elderly landlord stepped up to walk her down the aisle. Shacole Fox, a makeup artist from Cincinnati, told CBS News she never knew her father. At first, she thought his absence at her wedding wouldn’t faze her.
But as the big day got closer, the reality of not having someone by her side during the processional began to sink in. “When I thought about who would walk me down the aisle, trying to figure out what that looks like, the thought of it was surprisingly painful,” she admitted in an interview published on Friday, Sept. 12.
Fox said she “wouldn’t have thought in a million years” that the man to fill that void would be her 79-year-old landlord, Gil Pulliam. The two already shared a bond through her work, as Fox rents a studio space in his building. Pulliam knew about her family situation and wanted to give her the support she deserved.
“So I went back up to ask Shacole if I could escort her down the aisle,” Pulliam told CBS. “And she said, ‘Yes, yes, yes!’ And on and on and on.”
Fox married her partner Victor a couple of months ago and says she will never forget the moment Pulliam took her hand. “The music is playing — and I’m getting ready to walk down the aisle — and he grabbed my hand so tight,” she recalled. “And it was a really good feeling… Yeah, it still is. Like a wound had been healed in my heart.”
For Fox, what started as a painful gap in her wedding plans turned into an act of kindness that changed the day entirely. Instead of walking alone, she found comfort in the steady support of someone who had become a father figure.
