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Billionaire popstar Taylor Swift and her NFL fianc\u00e9 Travis Kelce are reportedly set to celebrate their wedding in a two-day affair at Madison Square Garden this week that involves street closures, truckloads worth of decor and a black tie dress code\u2014but may not actually include a marriage. <\/p>\n
Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce kiss on May 23, 2026 in Cleveland, Ohio. <\/p>\n
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Details have been slowly leaking about the celebrity wedding of the year since the New York Times<\/a> first reported permits and street closures associated with an event at Madison Square Garden were tied to the couple, who\u2019ve been planning their nuptials since getting engaged last August. <\/p>\n Swift and Kelce are hosting an event in the Garden\u2019s Infosys Theater for 100 people on Thursday, reported to be a rehearsal dinner, and a larger, black-tie event in the arena Friday for between 500 to 999 attendees, according to the city permits. <\/p>\n New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani made a minor quip about the event in a public service announcement<\/a> issued about the region\u2019s ongoing heatwave Wednesday, including a reference to someone \u201crenting out MSG to get married, hypothetically.\u201d <\/p>\n Celebrity wedding planner Mark Seed, who also coordinated the wedding of Jennifer Lawrence and Swift\u2019s close friend Jack Antonoff to actress Margaret Qualley, has been tied to the event and truckloads of decor, including boxes labeled \u201ctrees\u201d and shrink-wrapped packages the size of cars, were seen<\/a> being unloaded into the venue Tuesday. <\/p>\n Boxes labeled \u201cGarden Party 1 (scenic)\u201d were spotted on their way into the Garden, which fits the speculation of several A-list wedding planners who\u2019ve said<\/a> they think the couple will completely transform the arena to be an unrecognizable romantic, flower-filled space. <\/p>\n The sure-to-be star-studded guest list is rumored to include Antonoff, the Haim sisters, Selena Gomez, Gracie Abrams, Sabrina Carpenter, Stevie Knicks and Tim McGraw, but the only people who\u2019ve had their invites confirmed<\/a> so far are Ed Sheeran, George Kittle, Andy Reid and Suki Waterhouse. <\/p>\n Reports suggest Knicks and McGraw (who Swift released her first hit single about at age 16) will perform at the wedding, and Swift herself joked in the past it would be \u201chard to stop\u201d Sheeran from taking the stage.<\/p>\n WHAT WE DON\u2019T KNOW<\/p>\n Much of anything else. Speculation is running rampant around the event but most details\u2014including vendors, fashion designers, guests and entertainment\u2014remain completely under wraps. Guests, vendors and security have all reportedly signed nondisclosure agreements and won\u2019t be allowed<\/a> to take cameras or cell phones into the event. <\/p>\n CONTRA<\/p>\n A passionate faction of Swift supporters think the MSG wedding is the larger, public celebration of a more intimate ceremony in which the pair actually tied the knot. Some, including the aide<\/a> who helped plan John F. Kennedy Jr\u2019s secret wedding, think the Garden speculation is a complete cover and that no wedding will take place there at all, while others think it\u2019s simply the afterparty for the exchange of actual vows that happened (or will happen) privately to maintain intimacy and dodge the media.<\/p>\n CRUCIAL QUOTE<\/p>\n “Anyone that I’ve ever talked to [is invited],” Swift joked about her wedding in an interview with Graham Norton last year before quickly adding, \u201cI shouldn’t have said any of that.\u201d<\/p>\n SURPRISING FACT<\/p>\n Prince William, whom Swift and Kelce met once at an Eras Tour show in London\u2014and his wife Princess Catherine were reportedly invited to the wedding, but won\u2019t be attending<\/a>. <\/p>\n KEY BACKGROUND<\/p>\n Swift, the world\u2019s richest female musician with an estimated net worth of $2.1 billion, and Kelce started dating in 2023 and announced their engagement last August in an Instagram<\/a> post captioned, \u201cYour English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married.\u201d Kelce proposed with an antique, elongated cushion-cut diamond<\/a> set in yellow gold designed by Kindred Lubeck of Artifex Fine Jewelry, a small business based in New York, and speculation about the wedding has been swirling ever since. Rumors have ranged from a small, fairytale wedding at her house in Rhode Island to an intimate New York City celebration with no plus-ones before the Garden buzz took center stage. <\/p>\n further readingForbesIs Taylor Swift’s Wedding Being Set Up? Trucks At MSG Prompt SpeculationBy Conor Murray<\/a>ForbesBetting Markets Think These Guests Will Attend Taylor Swift’s Wedding\u2014And These Could Be Her BridesmaidsBy Mary Whitfill Roeloffs<\/a>ForbesTaylor Swift\u2019s Engagement Ring May Be 13 Carats, Expert Says\u2014And Is Worth An Estimated $650,000By Mary Whitfill Roeloffs<\/a>