{"id":510311,"date":"2026-07-05T02:47:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T02:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/510311\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T02:47:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T02:47:09","slug":"why-adam-sandler-was-chosen-to-officiate-taylor-swifts-wedding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/510311\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Adam Sandler was chosen to officiate Taylor Swift\u2019s wedding"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sandler\u2019s role prompted some to question whether the ceremony had been Jewish. In reality, across much of the United States, friends can legally officiate weddings after becoming ordained or receiving the necessary authorisation, regardless of the couple\u2019s faith.<\/p>\n

In the days leading up to the wedding, there were signs that Sandler would play a role in the wedding itself.<\/p>\n

On Thursday, the day before the ceremony, The Sun published grainy footage appearing to show the actor arriving with a bag at a rehearsal dinner held inside Madison Square Garden\u2019s Infosys Theatre.<\/p>\n

Sandler and his daughters, Sadie, 20, and Sunny, 17, have also been a long-time fans of Taylor Swift<\/a>. The family met her at the premiere of her film Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour in October 2023.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy kids know every Taylor Swift<\/a> song,\u201d he later told Jimmy Kimmel. \u201cThey\u2019ve grown up with every song of hers.\u201d<\/p>\n

Appearing on Kelce\u2019s New Heights podcast in early 2025, Sandler described Swift as someone who \u201cmeans so much to our house\u201d.<\/p>\n

He has also admitted to becoming star-struck around the singer, telling Conan O\u2019Brien, the TV host, in 2024 that \u201cI get a little jumpy\u201d around her, because \u201cI don\u2019t want to blow it for my kids. So I\u2019m a little like, \u2018Taylor, Taylor,\u2019 and I talk a little too loud.\u201d<\/p>\n

Swift herself referred to Happy Gilmore in her own songwriting. Speaking to radio host Zane Lowe last year, she revealed that the film\u2019s \u201chappy place\u201d scene inspired the chorus of Wish Li$t, a song widely believed to be about Kelce from her album The Life of a Showgirl.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know if you\u2019ve seen the movie Happy Gilmore, but he has this happy place where he goes into this utopia,\u201d she said. \u201cThat chorus of that song is me just describing what my happy place is.\u201d<\/p>\n

For a man who once described himself as feeling \u201cjumpy\u201d around Swift, it was an unlikely but fitting role at one of the year\u2019s most closely watched weddings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sandler\u2019s role prompted some to question whether the ceremony had been Jewish. In reality, across much of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":510312,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[5123,156,111,43,139,69,1177,6456,162728,255],"class_list":["post-510311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-celebrity-news","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-standard","tag-taylor-swift","tag-us-content","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=510311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510311\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/510312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}