Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce are married, according to a statement provided by a representative for Swift.
Swift’s brother, Austin, acted as her “man of honor,” while Kelce’s brother, Jason, served as his best man, according to the emailed statement from the representative, Tree Paine.
“The ceremony joined both families together and was officiated by friend Adam Sandler,” the statement said. Both Swift and Kelce wore looks from Christian Dior, designed by Jonathan Anderson. Swift also wore custom Christian Louboutin shoes and jewelry from Cartier.
The marriage was also announced on a video screen outside Madison Square Garden, where Swift and Kelce were holding a star-studded event on Friday.
“JUST&T MARRIED!” the sign read.
Their nuptials were hotly anticipated for months, from tabloid speculations about dates and venues to prediction markets taking bets on the details of the big day. The event, a union of two superstars in their respective fields — music and sports — was hailed by some fans as a kind of American royal wedding.
The couple’s relationship began with a missed connection in 2023, after Kelce tried and failed to give Swift his number at an Eras Tour concert stop at his home turf, Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City, Mo. He later lamented his failed effort to reach Swift in an episode of “New Heights,” the podcast he hosts with his brother, the retired professional football player Jason Kelce.
It caught Swift’s attention, and she found it adorable and “metal as hell” that Kelce had called her out in that July episode, she told Time magazine.
In a later interview on “New Heights,” Swift described Kelce as having thrown a “man-tantrum” when the initial meet cute didn’t work out. “It was such a wild romantic gesture to just be like, ‘I want to date you,’” she added.
The singer and the athlete began hanging out soon after Kelce’s “man-tantrum,” away from the public spotlight.
“So we actually had a significant amount of time that no one knew,” Swift told Time magazine about the relationship, “which I’m grateful for, because we got to get to know each other.” She added, “By the time I went to that first game, we were a couple.”
Swift became a regular and highly photographed fixture on the N.F.L. circuit, including when she made a hasty trip from Tokyo, where she was performing on the Eras Tour, to Las Vegas to watch Kelce and his teammates win the Super Bowl in 2024. Kelce, in turn, made an appearance onstage in June that year during a London stop on Swift’s tour, donning a top hat for a Vaudevillian number during the “Tortured Poets Department” set of the show. (Some fans have speculated that several tracks on that album are about Kelce, including “The Alchemy,” a love song peppered with football references.)
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.
