top-secret wedding<\/a> with more than 1,000 guests at a sports arena in the biggest city in the country is inherently absurd.<\/p>\nTo be clear, this isn\u2019t meant to throw shade: Swift is an incredibly talented icon who works extraordinarily hard and is forced to live under an invasive media and fandom microscope to an extent that might be unique across all celebritydom right now. She deserves whatever kind of wedding she wants. And at a time when so much of our news is divisive or troubling, there\u2019s something wonderful about an artist who has devoted decades of her career to captivating millions with expressions of romantic yearning tying the knot to a sports hero she clearly adores. This is a good thing. <\/p>\n
Also: This level of \u201cnobody dare admit they\u2019re going to our wedding\u201d secrecy is a little weird. All signs point to a massive two-day production which that been impossible to keep under wraps \u2014 there are far too many moving parts. The contradictions remind one of South Park<\/em>\u2018s \u201cworldwide privacy tour\u201d mockery of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. <\/p>\nGiven the \u201ceverybody knows this is happening\u201d nature of things \u2014 and the appropriately extensive security measures in place for safety \u2014 what would be the huge drawback, really, to simply being forthright? Yes, we\u2019re getting married! Yes, part of the event will take place at Madison Square Garden. We want our guests to be surprised by all the particulars, so we ask that everybody respect the privacy of our event as much as possible. <\/em>The extensive cloak-and-dagger machinations feel like unnecessary exhaustion for all involved. <\/p>\nThere is some speculation that the wedding is something everybody will be able to watch, perhaps very soon. This feels right. Even a $2,000 wedding has a photographer, and there\u2019s no doubt cameras will be capturing all the action. It seems likely that no matter how much Swift and Kelce spend on their big event, they could make a small fortune by selling the footage (if so, it would be nice to see the profit go to charity, which would make such a move feel less crass). Swift\u2019s fans would love to see the pop princess walk down the aisle. Denying them the opportunity would be deeply off-brand. You don\u2019t tease fans with a fairy tale ending across 12 albums, then lock the series finale in a tower. <\/p>\n
That this supposed wedding is happening leading up to the Fourth of July is fitting. There is something deeply American about a celebrity wedding that\u2019s an NDA-laden stage production at Madison Square Garden with a fake castle and potential streaming rights. Is it, you know, Actually Romantic? If you\u2019re two stars who work in sports arenas and stadiums, maybe? <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Taylor Swift wants her massive New York sports arena wedding privacy, dammit. Swift and Travis Kelce\u2019s 1,000 guests \u2014 and heaven knows how many crew members, stylists and various support staff \u2014 have been forced to sign \u201cironclad\u201d NDAs. Guests were originally only told to block off the next two days and await further instructions, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5680,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[5040,5041,3526,3563,1944,5039,1648],"class_list":["post-5679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fashion","tag-kinda","tag-ridiculous","tag-super","tag-swifts","tag-taylor","tag-topsecret","tag-wedding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5679"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5681,"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5679\/revisions\/5681"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}