By Kimberlee Kruesi and Andrew Walton The Associated Press
July 3, 2026 - 11:13 pm
NEW YORK — Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce joined Friday nighttime astatine Madison Square Garden, wherever histrion Adam Sandler was the astonishing officiant astatine a ceremonial packed with stars of sports and entertainment. The heavy secrecy that surrounded the buildup to the nuptials lifted erstwhile a marquee extracurricular the Midtown Manhattan arena proclaimed “JUST&T MARRIED” erstwhile the deed was done.
The mates did not person bridesmaids oregon groomsmen, alternatively having Swift’s younger member Austin Swift service arsenic her antheral of grant with Kelce’s large member and podcast co-host Jason Kelce his champion man, Swift’s publicist Tree Paine said successful an email.
The bride and groom’s outfits came from Christian Dior Haute Couture and its decorator Jonathan Anderson with shoes custom-made by Christian Louboutin. She wore Cartier jewelry.
An almost-royal wedding
The agelong anticipated national of sports and opus brought hype to caller heights astatine a venue made much for historical NBA games and bucket-list concerts. The Kansas City Chiefs’ superstar choky extremity and the euphony megastar joined arsenic fans and spectators gathered extracurricular successful blistering heat, anxious to beryllium portion of the occasion, adjacent though the lawsuit was astir wholly hidden.
Actors Bradley Cooper, Zoë Kravitz, Hugh Grant and Ethan Hawke; models Gigi Hadid and Karlie Kloss; comic Chris Rock; manager Steven Spielberg; vocalist Camila Cabello and writer Jenny Han were among the guests from the satellite of arts and entertainment. Kelce’s manager Andy Reid and Chiefs teammates including moving backmost Kareem Hunt were among the sports figures successful the arena, on with retired NFL superstar Tom Brady, Seattle Seahawks receiver and caller Super Bowl champ Cooper Kupp, New York Giants receiver JuJu Smith-Schuster and ESPN personalities Joe Buck and Stephen A. Smith.
In a civilization obsessed with celebrated couplings it whitethorn person been the apex personage wedding, with possibly lone royal unions getting much attention. Holding specified a ceremonial successful a huge, iconic abstraction that sits astatine the halfway of the U.S. media beingness portion keeping each the details concealed made for a surreal scene, but it was a premix of hype and hush that is not retired of quality for Swift.
A shrouded ceremonial headed by Happy Gilmore
An Associated Press camera extracurricular the arena showed a agelong enactment of achromatic SUVs dropping disconnected wedding-goers successful tuxedos and evening gowns, surrounded by New Yorkers successful shorts and Swifties amassing for the occasion. Rain concisely chopped the vigor soon aft the matrimony was announced.
There was a seemingly full deficiency of societal media posts from guests erstwhile they had entered the arena, with phones seemingly banned.
Weddings person been a changeless taxable successful Swift’s songs since she was a teenager, and her really walking the aisle for the archetypal clip astatine property 36 added to the drama. It was besides the archetypal matrimony for the 36-year-old three-time Super Bowl champ Kelce, who could person been 1 of the jock characters successful Swift’s aboriginal hits.
Sandler, prima of “The Wedding Singer” and galore different deed comedies, can’t person been precocious connected anyone’s betting database for who would wed the couple, though he’s go an progressively lukewarm and paternal taste fig with age. The email announcing the matrimony described him arsenic “a friend” of the couple. Kelce was 1 of the galore athletes who appeared successful “Happy Gilmore 2,” Sandler’s 2025 sequel to 1 of his archetypal hits, and Sandler appeared past twelvemonth connected the Kelce brothers’ “New Heights” podcast.
Welcome to New York — Taylor’s version
The Swift-Kelce narration has thrilled and fascinated millions astir the satellite — peculiarly the Swifties, the popular star’s tremendous and ardent instrumentality basal — ever since the brace archetypal started dating successful 2023 aft helium showed up astatine her Eras Tour performance astatine the Chiefs stadium.
Happy fans mixed with frazzled tourists extracurricular the arena.
Lori Powers, who lives an hr northbound of Manhattan and rode the bid successful to beryllium adjacent the nuptials, said Swift’s “music is the soundtrack down truthful galore astonishing moments successful my life. Relationships, friends, similar my hubby and my kids.”
She stood extracurricular the arena earlier the matrimony was announced with her person Cecily Hall.
“Just being present and witnessing each the vigor and the excitement, it’s truthful overmuch fun,” Hall said. “The operation of sports and euphony makes cleanable consciousness arsenic to wherefore they’re astatine Madison Square Garden today.”
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