It’s shaping up to be the showbiz wedding of the decade as Taylor Swift prepares to marry Travis Kelce this weekend.
The pop superstar and the NFL ace, both 36, are expected to say ‘I do’ this week at Madison Square Garden in the heart of New York.
Reports that 70 NYPD police officers are waiting in the wings to keep the celebrations as private as possible have surfaced. Although later reports speculated the arena wedding could all be part of an elaborate hoax or a huge ‘Easter Egg’ dropped by the notoriously crafty singer.
Now, as Taylor and Travis prepare to say ‘I do’, follow along with us for all the excitement and updates.
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Well, I never thought I’d be squinting at the label on a wooden box – but this one could be giving away some details!
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Many items are being delivered to the arena ahead of the big day, with this one reading ‘The Tree BB’. There’s a note on it, which reads Olive, Yellow 1/3 – so could that hint at Taylor’s chosen colour theme?
Anyway, this box is just the trunk and the main branches so let’s hope the one with the smaller branches has been delivered successfully too!
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It has been revealed by one wedding guest that Taylor will have two events – and they will not both take place at MSG.
Anthony Jabin, a celebrity memorabilia collector, told TMZ that he was the plus one of a woman who had been invited to the wedding. He claimed that the wedding ceremony and the party will be held on the same day, Friday.
Anthony wouldn’t clarify where the smaller ceremony would be held but said the big party was at Madison Square Garden.
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Taylor is said to be planning a cute castle theme for her big day.
The motif has followed her around for her whole life, as Anna Pointer, Taylor’s biographer. explains: “We’ve seen lots of equipment being taken in. It’s rumoured to be a castle themed setting inside, and throughout her career, she’s loved that motif of the castle. We saw it in her video for Love Story; she rewrote the ending of Romeo and Juliet to have a happy ending instead of a tragedy.
“That’s always been really important to her, the fantasy romance, the fairytale ending. We’ve seen things being wheeled in that say garden party on the side. And again, that whole idea of the magical, mystical, enchanted garden is really something that means a lot to her.
“We’ve seen it with the engagement when Travis covered the garden with thousands of roses and proposed in that idyllic setting. We’ve seen that on her album cover when she had the magical garden as well.”
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Firstly, we have the rehearsal dinner that’s rumoured to be taking place on Thursday night.
It’s thought just 100 guests will be in attendance at the rehearsal dinner on Thursday, which is believed to be taking place inside the Infosys Theater from 6 to 10:30 p.m.
Friday’s reception is rumoured to have 1,000 guests in attendance, reportedly kicking off in the early afternoon at 3:30pm, followed by a cocktail hour and the ceremony at 5:30pm. The event is expected to finish at 2am.
A nearly 12 hour wedding – we wouldn’t expect anything less!
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Taylor and Travis are ensuring no expenses have been spared for their big day
New images of shipments arriving at the arena have suggested that the menu for the opulent two-day event might have been revealed – and the couple appears to be mixing fine dining with comfort food as lobster and French fries are set to be served.
Workers were snapped carrying boxes into the venue, with labelling suggested they were carrying lobster meat, and different types of chicken including legs, boneless, blackened, and breasts.
Other boxes containing fried food such as French fries and thick-cut onion rings were snapped, as well as fresh produce including red and orange peppers, romaine lettuce, eggs, heavy whipping cream and whole milk were also seen transported in.
Read more here on their exciting wedding menu.
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There has been much speculation about why Madison Square Garden was chosen as the couple’s venue.
Taylor’s biographer Anna Pointer explains to us: “When people first started saying it was gonna be at Madison Square Garden, the reaction was, ‘Really? Why would she want to have a wedding in a stadium?’
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“But I think as time’s gone on, it does make quite a lot of sense. There are no windows. She wants to keep this really private – we know that – so the world can’t look in and see what’s going on.
“Guests will be walking down shielded tunnels. Lots of people said it would take place in Rhode Island. there were various venues touted around initially but those are all a bit more public in a way – you could easily see from a distance with a long lens camera. This makes sense in the middle of New York where they can shut down streets, which is what is apparently happening. It’s gonna be lockdown in Manhattan essentially.”
When the whole world wants to know what’s going on, keeping private is the key for Taylor!
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As the couple prepare to welcome guests to New York, it’s not going too well for one of Travis’ best friends, NFL player George Kittle and his wife Claire as they tried to make it from Nashville to New York.
Writing on social media, she shared: “Just at BNA (Nashville International Airport) all evening. Was supposed to depart at 5:30am now it’s 8am lol.” A quick search of the flight details now shows the flight – which was expected to take off on Wednesday night – is now not due to take off until early Thursday morning.
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The couple pretty much broke the internet when they announced their engagement last August.
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Set across a backdrop of roses in Travis’ back garden, he got down on one knee with a stunning ring for his bride-to-be. Captioning the post, they wrote: “Your English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married.”
The post sits at a whopping 37million likes as fans flooded social media, thrilled for Taylor to finally get her happy ending.
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Taylor and Travis started dating just three years ago when they met following his failed attempt to see her at the Kansas City leg of his Eras Tour. Travis had put his phone number on a friendship bracelet, desperate to give it to the singer.
In his New Heights podcast, Travis confessed he had tried, quipping: “She doesn’t meet anybody, or at least she didn’t want to meet me, so I took it personal.”
However, everything changed when she heard of his plight and the pair soon connected through mutual friends and just two years later, in August 2025, they got engaged.