{"id":820991,"date":"2026-07-23T14:29:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T14:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/820991\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T14:29:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T14:29:13","slug":"shania-twain-explains-why-she-had-to-decline-taylor-swifts-wedding-invite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/820991\/","title":{"rendered":"Shania Twain explains why she had to decline Taylor Swift\u2019s wedding invite"},"content":{"rendered":"

Shania Twain<\/a> turned down an invitation to Taylor Swift’s wedding in New York City<\/a> to perform with Harry Styles<\/a>, Swift’s ex-boyfriend, at Wembley stadium.<\/p>\n

Twain, 60, opened for Styles during his 12-night London residency<\/a>, which ran from 12 June to 4 July as part of his Together, Together tour.<\/p>\n

That meant that she was unable to attend Swift’s wedding<\/a> to Travis Kelce<\/a> at Madison Square Garden on 3 July.<\/p>\n

Twain said on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon<\/a> that she was “very honoured” to be invited to the wedding.<\/p>\n

“Next time I see her, I will of course give her a big congratulations,” she said.<\/p>\n

“I admire her musicianship and her commitment to telling her stories, I love her.”<\/p>\n

\"Shania<\/p>\n

Shania Twain, left, Ciara and Taylor Swift onstage during the 2019 American Music Awards (Getty)<\/p>\n

Swift and Twain have been friends for years, and the “Opalite” singer often cites the country legend as an inspiration.<\/p>\n

Styles, 32, and Swift, 36, dated from 2012 to 2013<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Prior to the Wembley shows, Twain had performed with Styles at Coachella in 2022 and the Brit Awards in 2023.<\/p>\n

Speaking about how they met, she said: “I met Harry backstage at a very small show, and we chatted for a little bit.<\/p>\n

“He was still just getting going, he wasn’t the Harry he is now.<\/p>\n

“We exchanged numbers and he called me a little bit later and said, ‘it’s my mum’s birthday coming up, would you mind wishing her a happy birthday because she’s the person who introduced me to your music?'”<\/p>\n

Twain sang happy birthday to Styles’s mother over the phone and the two singers kept in touch.<\/p>\n

\"Shania<\/p>\n

Shania Twain and Taylor Swift, pictured in 2011 (Getty)<\/p>\n

The Canadian singer appeared on the talk show to promote her new album, <\/a>Little Miss Twain<\/a>, which will be released on 24 July.<\/p>\n

Swift and Kelce reportedly had 1,000 guests at their wedding<\/a>, with celebrities including Gigi Hadid and Bradley Cooper, Graham Norton, Ed Sheeran, Hugh Grant and Ethan Hawke all in attendance.<\/p>\n

Their romance began in 2023 after Kelce publicly announced on his podcast that he was interested in Swift, which she later said was a “wild, romantic gesture”.<\/p>\n

In October 2025, Swift made her first TV appearance on Graham Norton’s BBC talk show<\/a> since her engagement, where she jokingly told the host she was planning on inviting “anyone I’ve ever talked to” to her wedding.<\/p>\n

Styles is currently in a relationship with Zoe Kravitz, who he was first linked to in August 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shania Twain turned down an invitation to Taylor Swift’s wedding in New York City to perform with Harry…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":820992,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[49,48,75,23481,37412,7223,12659,348],"class_list":["post-820991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-harry-styles","tag-madison-square-garden","tag-taylor-swift","tag-travis-kelce","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=820991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/820992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=820991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=820991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=820991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}