Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce married at New York City’s Madison Square Garden

Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce are officially wed. The couple hosted their wedding celebration on Friday in New York City, nearly three years after first meeting.“Taylor + ⁠Travis did ​not ‌have ‌bridesmaids or groomsmen. Instead, ‌her brother Austin Swift served as Taylor’s Man ‌of Honor and Jason Kelce ​was Travis’ Best Man,” a Swift spokesperson said Friday, confirming the nuptials. “The ⁠ceremony joined ​both families ​together and ​was officiated ​by ‌friend Adam ​Sandler.”The wedding was held at Madison Square Garden in midtown Manhattan, where screens outside the venue displayed a celebratory message around 7.20pm local time: “JUST&T MARRIED!”According to Swift’s spokesperson, both Swift and Kelce wore Christian Dior couture designed by Jonathan Anderson. Swift also wore Cartier jewelry and Christian Louboutin shoes. Louboutin also designed most of the shoes Swift wore on her worldwide Eras Tour.Screens display a message referencing Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce outside Madison Square Garden, the venue for their reported wedding celebrations, in New York on 3 July 2026. Photograph: Christian Monterrosa/ReutersA frenzy of activity began in the vicinity of the arena earlier this week. An array of celebrities were seen en route to the venue in formal wear Friday afternoon, including pop singer Ed Sheeran, model Gigi Hadid, actress and writer Lena Dunham, actors Hugh Grant, Bradley Cooper and Ethan Hawke, frequent Swift producer Jack Antonoff and NFL stars Cooper Kupp and JuJu Smith-Schuster.Also spotted were close members of Swift’s inner circle, including longtime publicist Tree Paine and childhood best friend Abigail Anderson Berard.Stevie Nicks, whom Swift has cited as a mentor, was reportedly slated to perform at the celebration.Permits obtained by various media outlets ahead of the wedding indicated as many as 1,000 guests were in attendance.Hugh Grant and Anna Elisabet Eberstein arrive at Madison Square Garden on 3 July 2026 in New York City. Photograph: Roy Rochlin/Getty ImagesSecurity was tight around the arena in the leadup to the wedding, with many nearby streets closed to vehicular traffic. Nevertheless, hordes of fans gathered as close as they could to the venue, braving sweltering heat to have a glimpse at what has been described as “America’s royal wedding”.“It’s a nice that she is doing it here and connecting with her life in New York because it’s so special to her,” Gray O’Sullivan, an 18-year-old fan, told the Guardian on Friday.Even the Empire State Building was getting in on the celebration: the iconic skyscraper will be illuminated in “light blue sparkle” to honor the occasion.US actor Ethan Hawke arrives at Madison Square Garden, the reported venue for the wedding celebrations of pop singer Taylor Swift and pro-athlete Travis Kelce, in New York City on 3 July 2026. Photograph: Kena Betancur/AFP/Getty ImagesPrior to the wedding, rumors had long been swirling about the exact timing and location of the pair’s nuptials. TMZ previously reported that the wedding would take place at the historic venue in early June, highlighting the specific safety features the venue has in place that could keep the venue secure.Swift and Kelce kept relatively quiet on their wedding plans in the months leading up to their nuptials. During an appearance on The Graham Norton Show in support of 2025’s The Life of a Showgirl, she jokingly invited the talkshow host and said she was aiming for a big invite list in order to avoid making tough decisions about who to cut.The superstar couple first connected in 2023. The Kansas City Chiefs tight end had attended Swift’s show at his team’s home base, Arrowhead Stadium, on 8 July 2023 but the pair did not meet at the show. He spoke about his disappointment on his podcast New Heights, which he hosts with his brother, now-retired Philadelphia Eagles center Jason Kelce.“I was disappointed that she doesn’t talk before or after her shows because she has to save her voice for the 44 songs that she sings,” he said at the time. Kelce had made Swift a friendship bracelet, something her fans had been making and trading throughout her historic Eras Tour.A Chevrolet Suburban SUV believed to be transporting Taylor Swift arrives at Madison Square Garden, the venue for the reported wedding celebrations of singer Taylor Swift and National Football League player Travis Kelce, in New York, 3 July 2026. Photograph: Christian Monterrosa/ReutersIn her Disney+ documentary The End of an Era, a candid conversation with her mother revealed that Andrea Swift had not only encouraged but set up the meeting after seeing Kelce’s podcast clip go viral.“I’m looking at the headlines and perusing around on the internet and I see that this guy came to your show and he brought a friendship bracelet and wants to meet you,” Swift’s mom said in the documentary. “So I call up my resident expert on the Kansas City Chiefs, my cousin Robin, and I go, ‘Tell me about this guy named Travis Kelce.’”“You said something to the effect of, ‘You gotta start doing something different,’” the pop star recalled of the initial conversation with her mom. Later, in an interview with Time magazine, Swift revealed that the two had quietly met shortly after he attended her show and began their courtship out of the public eye.In September 2023, Swift would return to Arrowhead to attend one of Kelce’s games. The pair were spotted leaving the stadium together in his convertible. The two would soon become regular fixtures in stadium crowds for one another, often sitting with each other’s parents at her shows and his games.They would notably make the biggest and most public declaration of their love after the Chiefs won the Super Bowl on 11 February 2024, when Swift joined Kelce on the field after.Two months later, the Grammy-winning singer-songwriter released The Tortured Poets Department. While the album mostly unpacked a pair of breakups she had experienced prior to meeting Kelce, she had included a pair of love songs about Kelce loaded with football references. “Are you gonna marry, kiss or kill me?” she sang on So High School, referencing a viral video of Kelce choosing to “kiss” Swift while playing the game during a 2016 interview, which resurfaced during their early courtship.In June 2024, Kelce joined Swift on stage at Wembley Stadium for one of her Eras shows, joining the dancers during a segment where they “revive” her to perform I Can Do It With a Broken Heart. It was the first time Swift ever had a partner join her on stage at one of her concerts. In August 2025, she would announce The Life of a Showgirl on Kelce’s podcast.Not long after her New Heights appearance, Swift and Kelce announced their engagement. “Your English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married,” she wrote in a caption of a photo carousel featuring the two posing in the middle of their flower-filled yard.The Life of a Showgirl would feature more explicit references to her relationship with Kelce, filling songs such as The Fate of Ophelia with more football references, name-dropping his podcast on Wood and dreaming of their domestic future on Wi$h List.