I think her comment during Showgirl promo about how if a particular album isn’t for you, she’s got countless other to chose from was such an eye-opening look into how she views herself and her career. She’s going to make what she wants to make and know that it will appeal to some and not others and that’s fine!
Her legacy is having a substantial discography that can appeal to a wide variety of people at different points in their lives.
Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce recreated the menu from an N.Y.C. Italian restaurant for their rehearsal dinner
The intimate event featured romantic decor and speeches, a source tells PEOPLE, with celebrity friends like Lena Dunham and Jack Antonoff attending
The couple’s MSG wedding included 1,000 guests, a forest-like setting, Italian food and a dessert table with 30 cakes
Before Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce tied the knot, they kicked off their nuptials with an intimate rehearsal celebration.
The dinner, which brought together the couple’s family and friends on Thursday, July 2 in the Infosys Theater at Madison Square Garden, featured food from N.Y.C. Italian restaurant Sartiano’s, a source tells PEOPLE exclusively.
“They did a recreation of the menu from the restaurant for Taylor and Travis,” the source says.
“The rehearsal was very intimate, it felt small and like a mini wedding,” the insider continues of the evening. “There were speeches, there was so much love in the air.”
They add, “There were tasteful flowers around and the decor was romantic, but tasteful, it was much more scaled back and intimate than the wedding the next day.”
Per Sartiano’s website, the restaurant located in The Mercer hotel in SoHo focuses on the intersection of “timeless elegance” and “downtown energy,” with a menu featuring a range of Italian pastas, steaks and mains.
The menu includes a caviar section, along with crudo and tartare offerings and salad options.
The appetizers also include a house-made focaccia, served with whipped ricotta, a burrata dish, fritto misto with calamari and rock shrimp and more.
The menu has pastas ranging from Wagyu beef ragú fusilli to Maine lobster and Calabrian chili butter bucatini, along with various cuts of steak.
The restaurant’s mains also include a Dover sole and branzino, with sides like fingerling potatoes with truffle aioli and roasted carrots with pomegranate yogurt.
Swift and Kelce, both 36, are known for stepping out to N.Y.C. hotspots for date nights, and they are fans of the SoHo Italian spot. The pair were seen arriving hand-in-hand at the restaurant for a date night on Friday, May 22.
Another source tells PEOPLE the dinner was “very touching and intimate.”
The personal event included the couple’s family and celebrity friends, including Lena Dunham, Jack Antonoff, Erin Andrews, Charissa Thompson, Greg Olsen, and Aric Jones, who were spotted arriving at the venue around 6 p.m. on July 2. The A-listers brought glam to the celebration, sporting jewel-toned and sequined dresses.
Selena Gomez shared a selfie from the car, while Abigail Anderson was also spotted en route to the dinner.
Jones is a longtime friend of Kelce’s, telling PEOPLE in an earlier interview that he met Kelce in Cleveland Heights, Ohio when Kelce was about 6 and Jones was around 4.
Anderson and Swift are also longtime best friends, having met in English class on the first day of freshman year at Hendersonville High School in Tennessee over 20 years ago. Anderson is the inspiration, in part, for Swift’s hit song “Fifteen.”
The second insider says that at the wedding, which took place on Friday, July 3, at Madison Square Garden, “the food was endless.”
“There were so many stations and options,” the source says, adding that there were “lots of doughnuts around where the games were.” The party featured numerous games, with winners getting raffle tickets for the chance to win items like designer bags, watches and a 1970 Chevrolet Chevelle, the same car that Kelce drove off in with Swift after her first Chiefs game in September 2023.
Another insider previously told PEOPLE that the reception included stations with Italian offerings like pasta in a parmesan wheel, along with sushi, steak, burgers and fries and seafood. There were also “bars everywhere,” the source said.
TMZ reported that the singer and Chiefs tight end bypassed a traditional wedding cake, instead opting for a massive dessert table topped with about 30 different cakes, each of which featured a unique 3D figure of the couple. The outlet said the dessert offerings also included other sweet treats.
A source told PEOPLE exclusively that the dessert table included items like pop tarts, cookies and pastries and was “a focal point” of the festivities.
The fun-filled celebration followed the couple officially getting married, as Swift’s rep confirmed to PEOPLE. The news was also announced on jumbotrons outside the arena that said: “JUST&T MARRIED!”
An insider told PEOPLE that the couple read their vows, which were about 20 minutes each, from gold books. The source said the arena “looked like a forest,” with ferns, trees and seats covered in white.
A-listers were seen flocking to the event, which included an estimated 1,000 guests, including Dakota Johnson, Mariska Hargitay and Peter Hermann, Gigi Hadid and Bradley Cooper, Ed Sheeran and Cherry Seaborn, the Haim sisters, The Chicks, Brad Paisley and Kimberly Williams Paisley, Hugh Grant, Zoë Kravitz and more.
A friend of the couple told PEOPLE that the newly married couple took time to “talk to everyone they could” and kept “thanking everyone for being there.”
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