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How do we know who attended Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s star-studded 1,000-guest wedding this weekend, despite the details being as closely guarded as national security secrets?<\/p>\n
Because the A-listers who attended from the world of movies, TV, music, sports, fashion and the arts were dying to tell us about it \u2014 or at least strongly imply it.<\/p>\n
The union of\u00a0 Swift and Kelce at Madison Square Garden, two of the biggest celebrities in the world, managed to completely dominate the internet despite the fact that guests reportedly had to check their phones at the door<\/a> and sign NDAs<\/a>. Perhaps the biggest trend of the weekend was a superstar guest<\/a> posting themselves on Instagram or TikTok in an ultra-glam, black-tie fit paired with an enigmatic caption. If you know, you know.<\/p>\n Pop star and Taylor prot\u00e9g\u00e9 Gracie Abrams<\/a> posted a photo of herself in a red glittering gown, captioned only with the calendar emoji, lumped in with a bunch of random photos in what’s known as a “dump.” Patrick Mahomes<\/a>, Kelce’s best friend and teammate, and his wife, Brittany<\/a>, captioned their glam getting-ready photos with matching white hearts. Selena Gomez, one of Taylor’s longtime besties, hasn’t posted on her grid yet \u2014 but her makeup artist<\/a> and hairstylist<\/a> have, sharing her sparkling gold look, while the account of fashion designer Oscar de la Renta<\/a> posted her rehearsal dinner outfit.<\/p>\n It wasn’t a shock to see these folks in attendance, but there were some surprise guests who used this tactic to hint they snagged the invite. Jennifer Lopez<\/a> posed in a black gown and went with just the champagne toast emoji as her caption; Elizabeth Banks<\/a> took a similar emoji-laden route with “\ud83d\udc97\ud83e\udd42”. Dee Ocleppo Hilfiger’s<\/a> posted a selfie with Tommy Hilfiger in the car and captioned it, “Yup”. Some celebrities like Jessica Alba<\/a>, who starred in Swift’s Bad Blood music video all the way back in 2015, and known Swiftie Adam Scott <\/a>were ever-so-slightly more direct, congratulating “T&T” beneath their photos. The band, The Chainsmokers, wrote, “New York has too much to celebrate” beneath a photo of them in tuxedos (<\/a> the rest of the gallery of images that followed were from their past performances).<\/p>\n It was a great opportunity to harness Taylor’s lyrics on Instagram without seeming cringe, like Kelsea Ballerini<\/a>, who combined two of her song titles (“long live a love story”), and Jessica Chastain<\/a>, who wrote, “I don’t know about you \u2026 but I’m feeling 1922.”<\/p>\n There were other sly details also revealed in the celebrity posts. Longtime Swift friend Lena Dunham<\/a> captioned her post, “Available going forward for weddings, bar and bat mitzvahs, and sweet sixteens (gay ones). I love both my husbands and I love love \ud83d\udc92\ud83d\udc8d\ud83e\udd70,” which is especially funny if the rumors are true that she shocked the crowd at the rehearsal dinner with a raunchy joke. She gets extra credit for revealing via a selfie<\/a> that she carpooled with author Zadie Smith and actor Andrew Scott.<\/p>\n The wedding was as star-studded as the Met Gala, but the posts about it are as noncommittal and cryptic as a Gen Zer’s social media. Even celebrities are shackled to the conventions of casual Instagram,<\/a> a style of posting on the internet\u00a0 in which people are forced to harness a chill vibe to suggest they don’t care if you make a big deal about what they’ve shared. The T&T wedding posts imply, “Nothing to see here \u2014 except me! I got the invite!”<\/p>\n It’s brilliant to me, a fan of scouring the internet for clues as to what Taylor’s up to. The queen of Easter eggs has created \u2014 inadvertently or not \u2014 a scavenger hunt for celebrities who made the cut. The posts are easy to replicate, since many of the photos were seemingly taken in hotel rooms or in transit, which makes sense if phones were truly banned from the venue. Anyone could pretend that they were there, including the ever-trolling Amy Schumer<\/a>, leaving a sense of mystery still swirling around the event that was perhaps more talked about than America’s 250th birthday.<\/p>\n Photographs from inside the wedding are sure to trickle out in the days and weeks to come, but for now, we’ve got casual, messy photos from people we weren’t even aware knew Taylor and Travis like that. It’s a feast for those of us who are piecing together the evening like a 1300-piece puzzle.<\/p>\n See the rest of the apparent guests and what they’ve shared here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n