{"id":292686,"date":"2026-07-10T20:53:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T20:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/292686\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T20:53:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T20:53:07","slug":"taylor-swift-paid-160000-for-new-york-wedding-security-mayor-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/292686\/","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Swift paid $160,000 for New York wedding security, mayor says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Taylor Swift paid more than $160,000 to cover security measures around Madison Square Garden during her wedding celebrations last weekend, New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani said on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The payment covered the costs of permits and the police deployment, Mamdani told a press conference, adding that the necessary approvals had been finalized in the days leading up to the event.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Pop star Swift, 36, married NFL player Travis Kelce, also 36, at the famed Manhattan arena a week ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A smaller celebration with around 100 guests, according to media reports, was followed by a larger reception attended by an estimated 1,000 family members, friends and acquaintances.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The area around Madison Square Garden was cordoned off for the celebrations, with dozens of police officers deployed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">It remains unclear how much Swift and Kelce spent on the wedding festivities overall, though US media have speculated that the cost ran into the millions of dollars.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">No photographs from the celebrations have been released.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Taylor Swift paid more than $160,000 to cover security measures around Madison Square Garden during her wedding celebrations&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":292687,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[222,9,11,10,1473,15839,109144,82],"class_list":["post-292686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-madison-square-garden","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-taylor-swift","tag-travis-kelce","tag-wedding-celebrations","tag-zohran-mamdani"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292686\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/292687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}