Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce tied the knot on Friday in a two-day wedding that shut down one of the busiest areas of New York City, with dozens of fans braving sweltering temperatures behind barricades outside Madison Square Garden.
The couple’s nuptials were confirmed at around 19:30 local time with an announcement that read “JUST MARRIED!” outside the stadium, where hordes of onlookers reacted with excitement. Dozens of police officers were deployed to patrol the venue and its surroundings.
“Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce married in a star-studded New York wedding that shut down Madison Square Garden.”
An estimated 1,000 guests attended, though no official pictures from inside have been released. Many entered without being photographed, but some were spotted on their way in and out. Among the A-list celebrities on the guest list were Selena Gomez, Camila Cabello, Hugh Grant, Gracie Abrams, Ellie Goulding, Graham Norton, Dakota Johnson, Jason Sudeikis, Gigi Hadid, Bradley Cooper, Andrew Scott, Jimmy Fallon, and Karlie Kloss. Also pictured were Swift's childhood friend Abigail Anderson, former US football player Abby Wambach, author Glennon Doyle, and several NFL players including Cooper Kupp and Isiah Pacheco.
One employee working the check-in area could barely keep her cool at the sight of all the stars, according to observers. The staffer struggled to maintain composure while checking in the megastars.
The wedding took place on 4 July, a date that Swift herself seemed to foreshadow in her 2008 song “Fifteen”: “In your life you’ll do greater things than marrying the boy on the football team.” Swift, the most commercially successful recording artist of all time and perhaps the most famous woman in the world, has won Album of the Year at the Grammys four times and broke every record with her Eras Tour (2023-2024).
Swift has described herself as “a long time Hugh Grant stan” and invited the British actor with his wife Anna Elisabet Eberstein. The ceremony drew a barrage of celebrities from music, film, sports, and television, including Benson Boone, Ethan Hawke, Jessica Alba, Danny Ramirez, and Ted Lasso star Jason Sudeikis — who two years ago used a comedy event to ask Kelce when he “would make an honest woman” out of Swift.
Outside, the buzz of excitement was palpable as fans watched the wedding unfold. One fan vowed to chant…