The pair announced their engagement last August on Instagram with a series of photos captioned, “Your English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married,” with a firecracker emoji. (Or, put in Swiftie sleuth parlance, an emoji of TNT, for trinitrotoluene, or Taylor ‘n’ Travis — get it?) The post also included a snippet of the song “So High School,” another track from “The Tortured Poets Department,” which fans believe is about Kelce.
In the photos, Kelce is on bended knee before Swift under an elaborate floral arch. Both are wearing clothing by Ralph Lauren. On Swift’s finger is what appears to be a bezel-set diamond on a yellow gold band.
The engagement ring, designed by Kindred Lubeck of Artifex Fine Jewelry in New York, features a stone estimated to be between seven and nine carats and could have cost anywhere from $250,000 to $500,000, Ann Grimmett, the vice president for merchandising at Jared Jewelers, told The New York Times. Swift said on the British radio show “Heart Breakfast” that she had sent a video of Lubeck’s work to Kelce over a year before he proposed. She was touched that Kelce had been paying close attention.
The photos set off a frenzy online, as fans speculated wildly about what the couple’s wedding might look like, parsing old interviews with Kelce and even Swift’s song lyrics for clues.
“I actually don’t know people who have gotten married in the fall,” Kelce said in a 2025 episode of “New Heights. “All the weddings I’ve been to, and all my friends do it in the summer.” In a different episode, he told Jimmy Fallon the couple were “live music people.”
Rumors initially swirled that the couple would wed in Rhode Island, where Swift owns a home in the Watch Hill neighborhood of Westerly, known as Holiday House, which she purchased in 2013 for $17.75 million in a reported all-cash deal.
The mansion is heavily featured in Swift’s song “The Last Great American Dynasty,” which tells the story of the home’s original owner, the oil heiress Rebekah Harkness. Swift has also been known to throw celebrity-filled parties at the estate, particularly to celebrate the Fourth of July.