Taylor Swift’s highly anticipated wedding to NFL tight end Travis Kelce seems to be coming on the July 4 weekend. Many are calling this pairing America’s equivalent to a royal wedding. Are you ready for it?
While no wedding details have been officially confirmed by Swift or Kelce, a source with knowledge of the matter, who is among the guests invited, told NBC News that 1,100 people are expected to attend wedding festivities on July 3 at Madison Square Garden. A spokesperson with the New York City Mayor’s Office also confirmed that a permit was filed requesting street closures around the arena for July 2 through 4.
Swift’s actual wedding may be shrouded in mystery, but the singer has often referenced weddings and marriage in her songs, including the epic proposal at the end of “Love Story” and her apparent rejection of tradition in lyrics throughout “Midnights.” Swift has said her lyrics can range from deeply personal, as she explained to Glamour in 2012, to fictional, like with “Folklore” and “Evermore.”
In honor of Swift and Kelce, who announced their engagement in August 2025, possibly sharing more than paper rings later this week, here’s a Swiftie-certified look back on the biggest references to marriage from her 13-album discography.
“We were sitting at our favorite spot in town/ And you looked at me, got down on one knee”
Song: “Mary’s Song (Oh My My My)”
Album: “Taylor Swift” (2006)
From her very first studio album, Swift was seemingly already envisioning what her proposal could look like. Per photos shared in August 2025, Kelce proposed to Swift in a flower garden in Missouri.
“Is this in my head? I don’t know what to think/ He knelt to the ground and pulled out a ring/ And said/ ‘Marry me, Juliet, you’ll never have to be alone…’”
Song: “Love Story”
Album: “Fearless” (2008)
“Love Story” describes Swift meeting her “Romeo” and overcoming conflict for a heroic proposal where she has to “just say yes.” Luckily for Kelce, she did!
“Back then, I swore I was gonna marry him someday/ But I realized some bigger dreams of mine”
Song: “Fifteen”
Album: “Fearless” (2008)
On the same 2008 album as “Love Story,” Swift sings about teen heartbreak and moving on from dreams of marriage for other horizons. Swift won her first Grammy Awards for “Fearless” in 2010, including best female country vocal performance, best country album and the night’s highest prize, album of the year.
“I am not the kind of girl/ Who should be rudely barging in on a white veil occasion … Don’t wait, or say a single vow/ You need to hear me out/ And they said, ‘Speak now’”
Song: “Speak Now”
Album: “Speak Now” (2010)
This title track for Swift’s third album imagines its narrator making one last effort to confess her feelings to someone she loves — by interrupting their wedding.
“Ooh-ooh, we could get married/ Have ten kids and teach ‘em how to dream”
Song: “Starlight”
Album: “Red” (2012)
Unlike most of Swift’s songs, we know exactly who inspired this track: Robert F. Kennedy and Ethel Kennedy. She said she saw a photo of them together aged 17 and dreamed up a version of their romance. But at least one lyric rings true. They did get married and go on to have many, many children.
“Ladies and gentleman, will you please stand/ With every guitar string scar on my hand/ I take this magnetic force of a man to be my lover”
Song: “Lover”
Album: “Lover” (2019)
In this title track that soon became a popular wedding anthem, Swift cites a line often said by a wedding officiant during the ceremony before issuing her personalized vows. But instead of taking the subject to be her husband, she pronounces him her “lover.”
“I like shiny things, but I’d marry you with papers rings”
Song: “Paper Rings”
Album: “Lover” (2019)
“Paper Rings” declares that its narrator doesn’t need a diamond to make things official. (Swift’s fiancé, though, had other plans. He proposed with a brilliant cushion cut old mine diamond, estimated to be worth between $500,000 and $1 million.)
“We gather stones, never knowing what they’ll mean/ Some to throw, some to make a diamond ring”
Song: “My Tears Ricochet”
Album: “Folklore” (2020)
This reference to a diamond engagement ring takes a starkly different tone than past songs. Instead of celebrating romance, “My Tears Ricochet” is about divorce and, in Swift’s words, realizing that a “person that you trusted more than anyone in the world is the person that can hurt you the worst.”
“Your mom’s ring in your pocket/ My picture in your wallet/ … ‘She would’ve made such a lovely bride/ What a shame she’s f—– in the head,’ they said”
Song: “Champagne Problems”
Album: “Evermore” (2020)
Like “My Tears Ricochet,” “Champagne Problems” was written amid the COVID-19 pandemic and Swift’s shift to fictional storytelling in her music. This song follows a young woman who turns down a proposal, aware she’s breaking someone’s heart but unable to say yes.
“But it turned out I’m harder to forget than I was to leave/ And, yeah, I bet you think about me”
Song: “I Bet You Think About Me”
Album: “Red (Taylor’s Version)” (2021)
While the lyrics don’t explicitly reference marriage, the music video for this “Red” vault track depicts Swift haunting a wedding of an apparent ex (played by Miles Teller). She pops up dressed in red as a wallflower attendee, a speech-giver and someone sitting at the kid’s table. But halfway through the video, Swift appears in all white and dances with Teller, who seems to be imagining her as his bride. When the illusion breaks, Swift continues her country crooning about being impossible to forget.
“All they keep asking me/ Is if I’m gonna be your bride/ The only kinda girl they see/ Is a one night or a wife”
Song: “Lavender Haze”
Album: “Midnights” (2022)
In this song, the narrator sings about wanting to stay in a shielded, private “Lavender Haze,” away from tabloids and gossip. These lyrics seemingly shut down speculation over her marital status.
“He wanted a bride/ I was making my own name”
Song: “Midnight Rain”
Album: “Midnights” (2022)
“Midnight Rain” is an illustration of two people with contrasting values and priorities. One wants it “comfortable” while the narrator was “chasing that fame.”
“Storm coming, good husband/ Bad omen/ Dragged my feet right down the aisle”
Song: “High Infidelity”
Album: “Midnights” (2022)
This song seemingly centers on a relationship marred by infidelity, with the repeated question: “Do you really wanna know where I was April 29?” The lyric referencing a wedding appears to describe a marriage that was doomed from the start.
“I’m the best thing at this party/ You’re losin’ me/ And I wouldn’t marry me either”
Song: “You’re Losing Me”
Album: “Midnights (The Late Night Edition)” (2023)
This song was originally available exclusively on CD and sold during “The Eras Tour” before later being released on streaming. This song describes a relationship slowly dying. Swift’s friend and collaborator Jack Antonoff said the track was written and recorded all in one night, on Dec. 5, 2021.
“At dinner you take my ring off my middle finger/ And put it on the one people put wedding rings on”
Song: “The Tortured Poets Department”
Album: “The Tortured Poets Department” (2024)
Here, the narrator recalls a deeply intimate relationship and a moment when they imagined being married — “the closest I’ve come to my heart exploding.” The song overall asks its subject, “Who’s gonna hold you like me? Who’s gonna know you, if not me?”
“No, you can’t come to the wedding/ I know it’s crazy, but he’s the one I want”
Song: “But Daddy I Love Him”
Album: “The Tortured Poets Department” (2024)
In this track, the narrator outlines the freedom of being loud and proud about a love that others judge. Throughout the song, she breaks the fourth wall, seemingly addressing listeners and fans directly with, “I’m having his baby/ No, I’m not, but you should see your faces.”
“Ain’t no way I’m gonna screw up now that I know what’s at stake here/ At the park where we used to sit on children’s swings/ Wearing imaginary rings”
Song: “Fresh Out The Slammer”
Album: “The Tortured Poets Department” (2024)
Like the album’s title track, this song describes a relationship that involved fantasizing about getting married one day. Only in this song, she’s “running back” to that relationship, rather than reflecting on its end.
“You s— talked me under the table/ Talkin’ rings and talkin’ cradles/ I wish I could un-recall/ How we almost had it all”
Song: “Loml”
Album: “The Tortured Poets Department” (2024)
This song, the title of which can refer to both the “love of my life” and the “loss of my life,” is a reflection on the end of a relationship that seemed to be endgame, with promises of marriage and kids.
“Whether I’m gonna be your wife or/ Gonna smash up your bike, I haven’t decided yet”
Song: “Imgonnagetyouback”
Album: “The Tortured Poets Department” (2024)
In this track, Swift depicts two contrasting ends of an emotional spectrum, one of which is possible wife status.
“Are you gonna marry, kiss, or kill me?/ It’s just a game, but really/ I’m betting on all three/ For us two”
Song: “So High School”
Album: “The Tortured Poets Department” (2024)
This track describes a relationship that feels like, well, high school. The narrator brings up the juvenile game “marry, kiss, kill” and says she’s “betting on all three.” (Of note, in 2016, Kelce was asked that question among Swift, Katy Perry and Ariana Grande. He said he’d kiss Swift.)
“I just want you/ Have a couple kids, got the whole block lookin’ like you/ … Boss up, settle down, got a wish (wish) list (list)”
Song: “Wi$h Li$t”
Album: “The Life of a Showgirl” (2025)
Swift outlines other people’s ambitions for wealth and fame, from yacht life to a professional soccer contract. The narrator, however, just wants to get married, have kids and put a basketball hoop in their driveway.
“Girls, I don’t need to catch the bouquet/ To know a hard rock is on the way”
Song: “Wood”
Album: “The Life of a Showgirl” (2025)
This bold song is as explicitly suggestive as Swift gets with her lyrics. The narrator of this song is not only sexually satisfied, but knows an engagement ring is soon in her future.
“Honey, I’m home, we could play house/ We can bed down/ … You could be my forever night stand”
Song: “Honey”
Album: “The Life of a Showgirl” (2025)
In “Honey,” the narrator again describes a simple and sweet domestic life, with “forever night stand” implying marriage and commitment.