Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce announced their engagement on Aug. 26 after two years of dating
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- Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce announced their engagement on Aug. 26, 2025
- The “Cruel Summer” singer and the Kansas City Chiefs tight end have both shared their excitement about their future together
- Swift revealed that she had “never thought about” her wedding until Kelce proposed
The countdown is official on and Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce are gearing up to say "I do!"
The "Opalite" singer and the Kansas City Chiefs athlete announced their engagement in August 2025, and they've already shared some insight into their future wedding plans. Although Swift and Kelce have kept tight-lipped about specific wedding details, they've both teased that they're "excited" to get started on the planning — and preparations for a big event at Madison Square Garden over July 4 weekend seem to confirm the rumors that it's imminent.
Kelce proposed to Swift with a custom, old mine brilliant-cut diamond amid a sea of flowers, and even he was feeling the pressure.
“He's like, 'My heart is racing,' and I've never seen this dude nervous, ever,” Swift recalled of the moments leading up to the proposal in an interview on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Oct. 6. “He's professionally not a nervous person."
From gushing over the engagement ring to publicly extending a wedding invitation to one of her friends, here's everything Taylor Swift has said about her upcoming wedding to Travis Kelce.
Swift said she looks at her “crazy” engagement ring “constantly"
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Shortly after Swift and Kelce got engaged, the singer appeared in several interviews to promote her 12th studio album, The Life of a Showgirl, and talked about her engagement and wedding plans.
During an appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Oct. 6, Jimmy Fallon complimented her dazzling engagement ring and said that he was "blinded" by the rock.
"It’s crazy, that’s crazy,” she said while admiring the piece. “I look at it constantly! It doesn't feel in any way normal for me; I'm still like, 'Oh man, wow!' "
While Swift expressed love for the ring, she also added that she admires the ring more for what it "represents."
“Because he's just my favorite person I've ever met, no offense to everyone else I’ve ever met," she shared. “The fact that this is the person I get to hang out with every day forever, that's the whole thing of it, that's the win, and this represents that."
The singer said Kelce “crushed it” with his marriage proposal
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While speaking about the romantic proposal, Swift gushed that her fiancé "really crushed it when it came to surprising me."
"We had actually filmed a podcast episode — he has a podcast called New Heights — so we filmed the podcast for about three or four hours … and meanwhile behind his house, he was having the whole back garden turned into this," she said on an Oct. 3 appearance of the U.K. chat show The Graham Norton Show.
She continued, "And one of the things that he put in there, very strategically, was a wall of hedges that weren't there before. And inside the hedges was my tour photographer hiding in bushes that had not previously been there."
The Grammy winner complimented Kelce for going "all out" and gave him a score of "10 out of 10."
Wedding planning wasn't her top priority at the time, she said, but when she was ready, "I think it will be fun to plan," she teased.
She “never thought about” a wedding — before meeting Kelce
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Although Swift has written several songs about white dresses and happy marriages, she revealed that she had never previously pictured her own wedding — until getting involved with Kelce.
“You would think that I had been the type of person who would have obsessed over the idea of a wedding my whole life, but I actually never thought about what I would ever do or what I would want until I met the person," Swift said on Heart Radio in the U.K. on Oct. 3.
The "Cruel Summer" singer added that she hasn't fully comprehended her new "married life era" but is "really excited" for what's in store.
Swift didn't give a lot of thought to her bachelorette party
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Among other aspects of her wedding, Swift said at the time that she hadn't thought much about a possible bachelorette party.
"So I haven’t even thought about that, doing a hen do or whatever," she told Spice Girl Emma Bunton while on the U.K.'s "Heart Breakfast" radio show (using U.K. terminology for a bachelorette party). "This is the first time I have thought about that."
When the interviewer reminded Swift that she has a "good girl gang," Swift agreed that "they're so fun" but that it might be hard to get everyone together, because they're "so busy" and "scattered across the world."
Swift and some friends got together in Rhode Island ahead of the wedding the same weekend that Kelce and his friends were in California golfing, leading fans to believe that was their version of bachelor/ette events.
Swift was handing out invitations on the spot
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The "Love Story" singer revealed that she had already been thinking about her wedding guest list when she invited her longtime friend, radio DJ Greg James. During their Oct. 3 interview on BBC Radio 1, Swift invited him on the spot after he shared that he wants to meet Kelce.
"He's a really easy-going guy. You will absolutely love him when you meet him … He's a real vibes guy," Swift said.
James pointed out that because he and Swift "have known each other for so long," he "needs to check for sure" that Kelce is a good guy and added that he would love to "play catch" with him.
"The way that he's going to do that as soon as he sees you at our wedding. That's gonna happen," she said, while adding that she and James are "actually friends."
The radio journalist appeared shocked and asked if she was inviting him to the wedding, to which she replied, "Obviously."
"I don't normally like a destination wedding, but for you I would make an exception," James joked. Swift replied, "Sick," while saying she'll tell him her wedding location "at a different time."
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She's not going to be precious about her guest list
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While most brides can be a bit strict about the guest list, back in 2025, Swift told Graham Norton that she was excited about planning her big day because she's not going to overthink the process.
"I think the only stressful weddings are the ones where you have a small amount [of guests] and people are on the bubble, right? And you have to evaluate and asses your relationship with them to see if they should be there," she said. "I'm not gonna do that."
"Anyone that I've ever talked to [is invited]," she joked before later adding, "I shouldn't have said any of that."
That would explain why Prince William — whom she and Kelce met once (that we know of) backstage at her Eras Tour show in London —reportedly received an invitation, though PEOPLE confirmed Tuesday that he wouldn't be in attendance.
Kelce has kept tight-lipped on wedding details
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As for Kelce, the Super Bowl champion has not gone into detail about his future nuptials. He initially expressed his excitement over their engagement on the Sept. 3, 2025 episode of his New Heights podcast and said that he was still "giddy" calling Swift his fiancée.
"I appreciate everybody that reached out and sent something and all the posts and all the excitement that's been going on. It's been really fun telling everybody who I'm going to be spending the rest of my life with," Kelce said.
However, when it comes to the wedding itself, Kelce has kept information close to his chest — even when his brother, Jason Kelce, point-blank asked him, "When's the wedding?"
“Get this guy out of here!” Kelce said while laughing during an Oct. 5 Monday Night Countdown sit down. “I was wondering what he was gonna ask."
During a May 6, 2026 episode of New Heights, guest Rory McIlroy began talking about how beautiful and "surreal" weddings can be as they bring together the people from the different chapters of your life. "I can't wait, man," the tight end responded with a smile.
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