press conference<\/a>. Mamdani was answering questions about safety during the World Cup when he said, \u201cWe know it coincides with July Fourth, America 250, Taylor Swift\u2019s wedding all happening at the same time, and we are so excited to welcome the world here.\u201d<\/p>\nMamdani, however, said he was not invited to the wedding.<\/p>\n
\u201cI wish them a lovely wedding. I\u2019ll listen to \u2018Only the Young\u2019 at home on my own,\u201d he said, referencing one of Swift’s songs.<\/p>\n
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MSG is a fortress, but has hosted weddings before<\/p>\n
Madison Square Garden may not scream \u201cbridal,\u201d but the venue is available for private rentals, advertising a banquet capacity for 1,250 \u2014 or 2,000 if you are only serving cocktails. And it has hosted weddings before. Sly Stone got married to Kathy Silva there in 1974 before thousands of fans. And more than 2,000 couples were wed in a mass ceremony at the Garden officiated by the Rev. Sun Myung Moon in 1982.<\/p>\n
Located above Penn Station, the busiest rail hub in the U.S., the Garden doesn’t scream \u201cprivacy” either.<\/p>\n
But it does have guarded entrances, a secure garage and a lack of windows, which would allow Kelce, Swift and celebrity guests to stay out of sight of photographers or camera-equipped drones.<\/p>\n
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That need for privacy popped up earlier in June when a large tent appeared next door to Swift\u2019s Watch Hill estate in Rhode Island. Despite organizers denying the event was for Swift, a wave of speculation bubbled up online as photographers and some Swifties headed to the town to see if they could catch a glimpse of a possible wedding.<\/p>\n
Yet others have theorized that the MSG buzz could be an elaborate smoke screen to throw off attention to the couple’s real wedding plans. Swift did once write, \u201cNo, you can\u2019t come to the wedding,\u201d in her song \u201cBut Daddy I Love Him,” which some fans have been reupping lately as a reminder that the wedding isn’t supposed to be a public spectacle.<\/p>\n
Friends, family, and plenty of celebrities expected to attend<\/p>\n
Swift joked in October that \u201canyone I’ve ever talked to\u201d would be invited to the wedding, telling Graham Norton that she believed \u201cthe only stressful weddings\u201d are those that are small and force people to make aggressive cuts to the guest list.<\/p>\n
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Yet just who exactly will show up is to be determined. Aside from family, Kelce’s Kansas City Chiefs teammate Patrick Mahomes and his wife, Brittany Mahomes, will likely be in attendance. For Swift, close friends like Selena Gomez, Abigail Anderson Berard, the Haim sisters, Emma Stone and Gigi Hadid will all likely attend.<\/p>\n
Chiefs coach Andy Reid said he couldn’t talk about it when asked by The Associated Press if he was going to the wedding.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf it\u2019s like when I got married, my wife did everything, so I just kind of followed her lead on it, showed up, right? Maybe he\u2019s doing more but he looks like he\u2019s pretty focused in on this job here, too,\u201d Reid said in early June.<\/p>\n
Swift has a history of Fourth of July parties<\/p>\n
Perhaps another clue why the week of the Fourth of July makes sense for Swift and Kelce’s wedding is that the popstar has long been known for throwing elaborate parties over the American holiday.<\/p>\n
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It wasn’t too long ago that fans dubbed her Fourth of July events as \u201cTaymerica,\u201d where celebrities showed up at her Rhode Island estate wearing red, white and blue swimsuits, waving American flags and eventually shared some social media photos with the public.<\/p>\n
The timing also works with Kelce’s football schedule, given the tight end once joked on his \u201cNew Heights\u201d podcast, \u201cDon\u2019t make my friends have to choose whether or not they have to sell their tickets that week.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Associated Press writers Anthony Izaguirre and Maria Sherman in New York and David Skretta in Kansas City, Missouri, contributed reporting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FILE – Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce (87) and Taylor Swift kiss after the Chiefs defeated…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":352659,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[125607,36104,35356,17797,125609,125610,28172,125608,7714,23681,59373,202,73298,8251,89693,69358,85963,85962,89918,73294,59371,196,91639,91638,93706,88829,82673,198,199,89919,61262,37261,82,84,83,43334,125612,125611,19079,125606,33827,11259],"class_list":["post-352658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-abigail-anderson-berard","tag-andy-reid","tag-brittany-mahomes","tag-emma-stone","tag-gigi-hadid","tag-graham-norton","tag-jon-bon-jovi","tag-kathy-silva","tag-new-york-city","tag-package-100024-ap-online","tag-package-100373-mc-complete-state-national","tag-package-100502-member-choice-sports-option","tag-package-100923-member-choice-lifestyles-option","tag-patrick-mahomes","tag-product-30061-ap-massachusetts-state-news-no-weather","tag-product-30069-ap-missouri-state-news-no-weather","tag-product-30083-ap-new-york-city-news-no-weather","tag-product-30085-ap-new-york-state-news-no-weather","tag-product-30101-ap-rhode-island-state-news-no-weather","tag-product-30594-lifestyles-formerly-weekly-features","tag-product-30598-ap-national-news-report-a-wire","tag-product-30599-ap-sports-news-s-wire-only","tag-product-31388-premium-entertainment","tag-product-33328-ap-premium-entertainment-other","tag-product-33332-ap-premium-entertainment-celebrities","tag-product-40791-ap-massachusetts-sports-only","tag-product-40795-ap-missouri-sports-only","tag-product-40802-ap-new-york-city-sports-only","tag-product-40803-ap-new-york-state-sports-only","tag-product-40811-ap-rhode-island-sports-only","tag-product-46986-ap-online-top-stories","tag-rhode-island","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news","tag-selena-gomez","tag-sly-stone","tag-sun-myung-moon","tag-taylor-swift","tag-taylor-swift-travis-kelce-wedding-what-know","tag-travis-kelce","tag-zohran-mamdani"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352658\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/352659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}