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7 Celebrity Moments You Might Have Missed From Taylor Swift And Travis Kelce's Wedding
Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce share a kiss in January 2025Anyone with even a passing interest in celebrity culture will surely be aware that chart-topping musician Taylor Swift and NFL star Travis Kelce have officially tied the knot.Over the last few weeks, whispers about the pair’s planned big day turned to very loud rumours about them getting hitched in a lavish 1,000-strong ceremony at New York’s iconic arena Madison Square Garden – which turned out to be very much true.The worst-kept secret in showbiz was confirmed to be the case on Friday when the screens outside the venue flashed up a message reading “JUST&T MARRIED”, with a similar slogan popping up on the licence plate of a car spotted leaving the venue shortly afterwards.Madison Square Garden on Friday, after Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce's wedding thereSince then, it’s emerged that the couple went all out for the ceremony, which included the creation of a European-style castle inside the arena, as well as an outside-inside garden theme and wedding looks designed by Jonathan Anderson, the creative director of Dior’s Haute Couture Collections “in close collaboration” with both Taylor and Travis.Of course, what we all want now is more details, and with the wedding dominating pretty much every entertainment news outlet right now, it may well be hard to keep up with what actually went down at the Swift-Kelce wedding.Here are some of the biggest celebrity moments you might have missed…Adam Sandler was the officiant at Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s weddingOne detail that Taylor’s spokesperson was happy to confirm once the singer was hitched was the fact that Adam Sandler was the one to do the honours, marrying the Grammy winner and her new husband.Adam and Travis first crossed paths when the latter made a cameo in the Happy Gilmore sequel last year, while the comedy actor has apparently known Taylor for years through his daughters.Adam SandlerHe was also a guest on Travis’ New Heights podcast last year, where he told the Kansas City Chiefs star: “When you guys first started dating, my family was like, ‘Yes. Look how good they are together. He’s a gentleman and she’s having so much fun’.”According to TMZ, Adam was anything but a traditional officiant, delivering a specially-written original song for Taylor and Travis’ big day.Stevie Knicks and Paul McCartney are also thought to have performed at Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s wedding receptionStevie NicksWhen Madison Square Garden emerged as a potential venue for Taylor’s big day, fans pointed out that the last time she made an appearance there, she sported a Stevie Nicks t-shirt, which may have been an Easter egg for the Fleetwood Mac singer performing at the bash.According to People magazine, Stevie was, indeed, one of the A-list performers at Taylor and Travis’ wedding reception, where Sir Paul McCartney apparently gave a rendition of the Beatles classic I Want To Hold Your Hand.TMZ also indicated that Haim might also have performed at the event, while Page Six claimed that Tim McGraw, one of Taylor’s earliest musical inspirations, was booked to perform.Sir Paul McCartneySpeaking of music, Taylor Swift apparently walked down the aisle to one of her own songs at her weddingMusic was always going to be one of the talking points at Taylor Swift’s wedding, and since it was suggested in a TMZ report that the You Belong With Me star had walked down the aisle to a Bridgerton-esque orchestral reimagining of one of her own songs, fans have been speculating about which it could have been.One we can probably rule out is Blank Space, her 2014 hit about her past bad luck when it came to romance, although a line from this song was embossed on handkerchiefs given to guests on their arrivals.Suffice to say, the guestlist for Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s wedding was absolutely enormousSelena Gomez was, of course, present and correct for her BFF Taylor Swift's weddingDays before the wedding, it was reported that the guestlist could reach numbers as high as 1,000, with Taylor even joking that “anyone I’ve ever talked to” would be getting an invite.Indeed, the list of celebrities in attendance is an especially long one.Joining the bride and groom’s respective families were some of Taylor’s famous friends, including Selena Gomez, the Haim sisters, Gigi Hadid (who apparently attended with boyfriend Bradley Cooper), Ed Sheeran, Gracie Abrams, Karlie Kloss (and her husband Joshua Kushner), Ice Spice and Lena Dunham.It seems that Taylor also made good on her promise to invite presenters Greg James and Graham Norton, while Hugh Grant – who previously enjoyed a night of partying with Travis when his now-wife’s Eras Tour landed in London – also put in an appearance.Other A-listers to appear included everyone from Jennifer Lopez, Steven Spielberg, Tom Hanks and Brad Pitt, while Taylor collaborator Jack Antonoff attended alongside his sister Rachel Antonoff.Reese Witherspoon, Nicole Kidman, Jennifer Lawrence, Tom Cruise were reported to be there, too, as were Lana Del Rey and Sabrina Carpenter, both of whom have appeared on Taylor’s albums Midnights and The Life Of A Showgirl.Taylor Swift and Sabrina CarpenterTaylor Swift seemingly avoided having to choose between her infamous ‘squad’ by not having bridesmaidsInstead, the singer’s representative confirmed that, in lieu of bridesmaids, she had a single “man of honour” in the form of her brother, Austin.Similarly, Travis didn’t have groomsmen, but his brother Jason Kelce served as best man, while Jason’s daughters were reportedly on flower girl duties.Travis and Jason Kelce pictured in 2017Lena Dunham apparently caused quite the stir with her speech at Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s weddingOne of our favourite stories to come out of the wedding so far is that Girls creator Lena Dunham, a long-time friend of Taylor’s, was tasked with performing a speech at the reception.Per the Daily Mail, true to form, Lena held nothing back with a speech the outlet described as “shockingly rude”, eliciting “gasps” from the crowd, but thankfully plenty of “laughs” too.Fortunately, it seemed Taylor was a fan, with a supposed “insider” claiming she hailed her friend as a “genius” afterwards.Lena DunhamCome on then… who wasn’t at Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s wedding?With a guestlist as big as this one, sometimes the story is who didn’t make the cut.Among the most notable absentees were Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds, which at one point would have been unthinkable, but the couple’s relationship with the bride is reported to have turned frosty in recent history.It should be noted, though, that they were watching their six-year-old daughter competing in a horse show on the day of the wedding, so it could just be that they couldn’t get out of a prior commitment.While Zoë Kravitz was in attendance, her rumoured fiancé Harry Styles was not.Harry, of course, once dated Taylor, and is rumoured to be the inspiration for numerous songs on her hit album 1989, including Out Of The Woods and, indeed, Style.Pop fans will know, however, that Harry was performing his last of 12 record-breaking nights at London’s Wembley Stadium on the night of Taylor’s nuptials, with Variety claiming he was invited to the event, but couldn’t make it due to this previous booking.The former One Direction star wasn’t the only famous +1 to miss out on the Swift-Kelce wedding, as the Daily Mail claimed that Jack Antonoff’s wife Margaret Qualley was also not in attendance.READ MORE:Taylor Swift Gives Blunt Response To Critics Who Wish She Would ‘Just Go Away’Taylor Swift's Toy Story 5 Song Was Written And Recorded In Eight 'Hectic' HoursTaylor Swift Reveals Travis Kelce's Unfortunate Hugh Grant Mix-Up At The Eras Tour
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