{"id":1996999,"date":"2025-09-04T15:53:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T15:53:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=1996999"},"modified":"2025-09-04T15:53:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T15:53:15","slug":"ri-governor-wants-ocean-state-wedding-for-taylor-swift-and-travis-kelce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/ri-governor-wants-ocean-state-wedding-for-taylor-swift-and-travis-kelce\/","title":{"rendered":"RI Governor Wants Ocean State Wedding for Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrities\/taylor-swift\/\"><strong>Taylor Swift<\/strong><\/a> and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrities\/travis-kelce\/\"><strong>Travis Kelce<\/strong><\/a> are looking for a wedding venue, and the Governor of Rhode Island wants to bring the two back to the Ocean State.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRhode Island has some of the best wedding venues in the world, just saying.\ud83d\udc40,\u201d <strong>Governor Dan McKee<\/strong> wrote <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/GovDanMcKee\/status\/1960392936484413446\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">via X<\/a> on August 26 as he reshared the NFL\u2019s congratulatory message to the couple.<\/p>\n<p>Swift and Kelce, both 35, announced their engagement on August 26, posting a photo of Kelce\u2019s proposal via Instagram with the caption, \u201cYour English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married \ud83e\udde8.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And while Swift is originally from Pennsylvania and Kelce from Ohio, Rhode Island is not an unrealistic destination. Swift owns a $17.5 million mansion in Westerly, located in southwest Rhode Island on the Connecticut border.<\/p>\n<div class=\"link-related article link-related__with-thumb\">\n\t\t\t<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"article__thumbnail related-ab-test\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/taylor-swift-and-travis-kelce-look-for-forever-home-after-engagement\/\" target=\"\" data-source=\"01\"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"article__figure\">\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:56.25%;\" class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\"><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"article__content\">\n<h3 class=\"article__title\">\n\t\t\t<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"article__title-link related-ab-test\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/taylor-swift-and-travis-kelce-look-for-forever-home-after-engagement\/\" target=\"\" data-source=\"01\"><br \/>\n    <span class=\"related-badge\">Related: <\/span><span class=\"related-title\">Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce Are Looking for Their &#8216;Forever Home&#8217;<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\n\t\t\tTaylor Swift and Travis Kelce are looking for their forever home. The newly engaged couple are still trying to determine what they want on the other side of the door, but a source tells Us Weekly that they are looking into \u201cdifferent destinations.\u201d Swift is a native of West Reading, Pennsylvania, which is about 60 [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The eight-bedroom, 10-bathroom residence is <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/inside-taylor-swifts-lavish-1-7-million-rhode-island-mansion-remodel\/\">currently under renovation<\/a>, but Swift has hosted a number of parties there, even welcoming Kelce, his Kansas City Chiefs teammate <strong>Patrick Mahomes<\/strong>, <strong>Blake Lively<\/strong>, <strong>Ryan Reynolds<\/strong> and <strong>Bradley Cooper<\/strong> last summer <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/guide-to-the-celeb-guests-at-taylor-swift-travis-kelces-bash\/\">as she took a break from her <em>Eras Tour<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Page Six<\/em> reported on Wednesday, September 3, that the couple is planning to get married in Rhode Island in the summer of 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Regardless of where Swift and Kelce decide to tie the knot, they appear to be loving every minute of their time as an engaged couple.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI appreciate everybody that reached out and sent something and all the posts and all the excitement that\u2019s been going on,\u201d Kelce said on the Wednesday episode of his \u201cNew Heights\u201d podcast. \u201cIt\u2019s been really fun telling everybody who I\u2019m going to be spending the rest of my life with.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"link-related article link-related__with-thumb\">\n\t\t\t<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"article__thumbnail related-ab-test\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/taylor-swift-and-travis-kelces-engagement-everything-to-know\/\" target=\"\" data-source=\"01\"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"article__figure\">\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:56.25%;\" class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Taylor-Swift-and-Travis-Kelce-What-We-Know-About-Engagement-Feature-4048418.jpeg?crop=230px%2C145px%2C1444px%2C814px&amp;resize=400%2C225&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all\" srcset=\"\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 400px, (max-width: 770px) calc(100vw - 6em), 200px\" alt=\"Taylor-Swift-and-Travis-Kelce-What-We-Know-About-Engagement-Feature-4048418\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" data-fallback-img=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Taylor-Swift-and-Travis-Kelce-What-We-Know-About-Engagement-Feature-4048418.jpeg?quality=86&amp;strip=all\"\/><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"article__content\">\n<h3 class=\"article__title\">\n\t\t\t<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"article__title-link related-ab-test\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/taylor-swift-and-travis-kelces-engagement-everything-to-know\/\" target=\"\" data-source=\"01\"><br \/>\n    <span class=\"related-badge\">Related: <\/span><span class=\"related-title\">What to Know About Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce&#8217;s Engagement<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\n\t\t\tOh my my my, Travis Kelce looked at Taylor Swift and got down on one knee after two years of dating. Swift and Kelce announced in August 2025 that they are engaged. \u201cYour English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married,\u201d the pair captioned a joint Instagram post, nodding to both Swift\u2019s prolific songwriting [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Kelce\u2019s father, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/ed-kelce-claims-taylor-swift-was-antsy-so-travis-moved-up-proposal\/\"><strong>Ed<\/strong>, recalled the day of their engagement<\/a>, which he said happened a couple weeks before they shared it publicly.<\/p>\n<div id=\"news-block\">\n<div class=\"newsletter-form  \">\n<div class=\"newsletter-signup__success\" aria-live=\"polite\">\n<h3>Thank You!<\/h3>\n<p>You have successfully subscribed.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>\u201cHe got her out there, they were about to go out to dinner, and he said, \u2018Let\u2019s go out and have a glass of wine,\u2019 \u2026 they got out there, and that\u2019s when he asked her, and it was beautiful,\u201d he told News 5 Cleveland the day of the announcement. \u201cThey started FaceTiming me and their mother and her folks to make sure everybody knew. So, to see them together is great.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Swift and Kelce made their first public appearance since their engagement news broke when they attended the Cincinnati vs. Nebraska football game at Kelce\u2019s home turf of Arrowhead Stadium. Kelce played for the Bearcats from 2008 to 2012.<\/p>\n<p>They watched the game from a luxury box, with cameras catching Swift\u2019s engagement ring on full display as she sipped her drink.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.usmagazine.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce are looking for a wedding venue, and the Governor of Rhode Island wants to bring the two back to the Ocean State. \u201cRhode Island has some of the best wedding venues in the world, just saying.\ud83d\udc40,\u201d Governor Dan McKee wrote via X on August 26 as he reshared the NFL\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1997000,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[24003,307104,32863],"class_list":["post-1996999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-celebrity-news","tag-celebrity-weddings","tag-engagements"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/RI-Governor-Wants-Ocean-State-Wedding-for-Taylor-Swift-and.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1996999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1996999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1996999\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1997000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1996999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1996999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1996999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}