THE RUNDOWN
- Two wedding guests, including BBC Radio 1 host Greg James, spoke about how Taylor Swift revealed where her wedding was taking place.
- One guest told Entertainment Tonight that the couple never formally shared that Madison Square Garden was their venue.
- James admitted he wondered whether the invitation Swift sent him was fake up until he got to the event.
Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce didn’t publicly confirm they were having a wedding until after it happened on July 3 at Madison Square Garden. But despite months of rumors linking the couple to the venue, the 1,000 guests they invited had no idea where the wedding was taking place until the day of the ceremony, a wedding guest told Entertainment Tonight.
The source explained the lengths to which Swift and Kelce went to keep their venue top-secret, even as photos surfaced of Madison Square Garden being transformed for their events.
In March, guests received a text from an unknown number, and details slowly came out from there about the event. At first, they were told “East Coast,” then “Manhattan” a few weeks later.
“The actual venue? Never confirmed,” the guest told Entertainment Tonight. “Some guests didn’t find out until they were already in the car.”
At 4 A.M. on July 3, guests received a QR code “with mandatory directions to MSG. If they deviated from the route, their car wouldn’t be allowed in,” the outlet wrote.
Once guests arrived, “phones and smartwatches were confiscated,” the guest said, confirming NBC News’s report that the event had a no-phone policy.
Earlier this week, wedding guest Ashish Ferguson posted, then promptly took down, the invitation he received, revealing the couple put their wedding date, “early evening,” and then just Manhattan on it.
BBC Radio 1 host Greg James also spoke on today’s Breakfast Show about how he learned the venue—and why he wasn’t sure the invitation he got was real. (Swift verbally invited him to her wedding in October.)
“The invitation arrived on my phone, in the form of a link, in the middle of the night when I was trying to get some sleep during a storm…this link came through saying that you’ve been invited to the wedding and it was the night before the Comic Relief challenge [which was on March 20],” he said, via People.
“I had to sit with it all week,” he continued. “I basically turned my phone straight off and thought, ‘I can’t deal with that now, it’s too mad.’ I didn’t tell anyone for the whole week.”
He said the invitation was just electronic, leading him to wonder whether it was fake for a long time. “Yes, until we were in there, there was a huge part us, that me and [my wife] Bella were like, ‘This could not be real. This could be a scam,’” he admitted. “So until we were in, we thought we may have made a big trip here [to New York] for nothing. I wasn’t sure until we got there.”
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