Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce are officially married!
A “JUST&T MARRIED” sign lights up outside Madison Square Garden during Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s wedding.
In the end, size didn’t matter.
Weeks of breathless speculation and opinion are over.
Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce are married. And they did it in a big way, with a huge celebration at the famous venue, with their celebrity friends (Bradley Cooper, Ed Sheeran, Patrick Mahomes, Selena Gomez, etc.), and with the message ‘JUST&T MARRIED’ projected against a pink backdrop on their chosen Madison Square Garden video screen.
Was the wedding in that giant fortress in midtown Manhattan gauche? Or is someone as wealthy and inherently good as Swift (she and Kelsey donated $26 million to several charities this week) entitled to what she wants, where she wants, with as many celebrants as she wants?
Did a woman who has spent her entire career, both joy and sorrow, immersed in love, really exchange vows at her workplace? Or was this a subtle message to the world, telling the world that taking the traditional step of marriage doesn’t dampen her ambition to return to a life spent making music?
Well, Swift ended up having a fairytale wedding in a Christian Dior couture dress and Christian Louboutin shoes. And she memorably celebrated with more than just a paper ring by “doing something better than dating a boy from the football team” – prophetic? – Lyrics included in 2008’s “Fifteen.”
She hit it off with her human exclamation point, Travis Kelce, the man who saved her from “Ophelia’s Doom” and us from another album of tortured poetry.
But Swift has always been a combination of supreme intelligence and hopelessly romantic charm, both of which she used to pull off the celebrity weddings of the century. This was despite some grumpy locals blocking roads (as if that didn’t happen during last month’s NBA Finals game against the New York Knicks and all the festivals, parades, film shoots and presidential visits in the area) and police presence (which the couple reportedly paid for). A large sum of money appropriate for a private event).
By inviting 100 people to a relatively intimate rehearsal dinner at MSG’s Infosys Theater on July 2nd, and then super-sized everything the following night for a victory lap around MSG, which has reportedly been transformed into a wedding wonderland, Swift sent a clear message. She may gravitate towards all the spotlight and share her poetic diaries with her fans, but some things are sacred.
In the weeks leading up to what some have dubbed “our” royal wedding, media around the world (guilty as charged) have been scrambling for any whiff of clues, with Swiftie feverishly deciphering whether the total number of steps she took down the sidewalks of Soho would be a possible date for her next album release.
Swift was probably sitting somewhere with a cat-like grin on her face, watching and listening to misinformation, foolish speculation about everything from guests to costumes to performers, and criticism for flaunting her wealth twice in tough economic times (hey, Jeff Bezos).
And hopefully, she chuckled knowing that no one could defeat the “mastermind.”
This was her, her own wedding. That’s how it should be.
