As long as Travis Kelce’s her guy on the Chiefs, Taylor Swift won’t be taking to the NFL stage.
While the Super Bowl halftime show is one of the only musical achievements Taylor hasn’t already checked off, the Grammy winner isn’t interested in doing so any time soon. And no, it has nothing to do with having access to the performance footage.
“Here's the thing, Jay-Z has always been very good to me,” Taylor said of the Roc Nation founder during her Oct. 6 appearance on The Tonight Show. “Our teams are really close. They sometimes will call and say, ‘How does she feel about the Super Bowl?’ And that's not an official offer or like a conference room conversation—we’re really close, it’s like, ‘How does she feel about it in general?’”
She added, “We're always able to tell him the truth, which is that I am in love with a guy who does that sport on that field. That is violent chess, that is gladiators without swords. That is dangerous. I am, the whole season, I am locked in on what that man is doing on the field.”
Which is why planning a musical performance at the same time wouldn’t be feasible.
“Can you imagine if he's out there every single week,” she explained, “putting his life on the line, doing this very dangerous, very high pressure, high intensity sport—and I'm like, ‘I wonder what my choreo should be? I think we should do two verses of 'Shake It Off,' into 'Blank Space,' into 'Cruel Summer’ would be great.’”
The 35-year-old also clarified that her decision is all hers, adding, “This has nothing to do with Travis. He would love for me to do it. I'm just too locked in.”
Also, Taylor already has a big event to plan for: her wedding to the Kansas City Chiefs player. And while she’s said she practically hasn’t even begun thinking about her special day, let alone making any decisions, the Life of a Showgirl artist does have one stipulation for their special day: it’s going to be “huge.”
“I’m so excited about it,” Taylor said during her Oct. 3 appearance on The Graham Norton Show. “I know it’s gonna be fun to plan because I think the only stressful weddings are the ones where you have a small amount and people are on the bubble.”
Instead of having “to evaluate or assess” her relationships with people to see whether they’ll make the cut, Taylor just plans to invite everyone.
As she summed up, “It’s gonna be fun.”
For more info on Taylor and Travis’ impending nuptials, keep reading.
When is Taylor Swift going to marry Travis Kelce?
It's impossible to picture Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce getting married on a day that isn't laden with meaning for both—or at least for the bride.
"I love numerology. I love math stuff, I love dates," the renowned triskaidekaphile gushed on the Aug. 13 episode of New Heights, her unprecedented two-hour appearance on her fiancé's podcast dropping 13 days before they announced their engagement (but, according to Travis' dad, three days after they informed close friends and family of their new relationship status). "That stuff I find really fun."
Whether Travis, who's turning 36 Oct. 5, remains in the NFL after the 2025 season—the final year under his current contract—will also factor into choosing a wedding date. If he doesn’t retire, then theirs will be off-season nuptials, anytime between the Super Bowl in February and when training camp starts in July.
If Travis does hang up his helmet after his 13th season (whoa, OK, that's just weird), then he's free to tie the knot during Taylor's beloved month of October. Or any other time, though the scheduling picture will become clearer once fans know when—or if—Taylor announces a tour for The Life of a Showgirl. Her 12th studio album drops Oct. 3, and she usually shares tour plans within a month of a new album (as opposed to a "Taylor's version") release.
The Bachelorette Party
While Taylor is known for her infamous squad of friends, she admitted in October 2025 that she has yet to consider hosting a Bachelorette party.
"You would think that I had been that type of person who would have obsessed over the idea of a wedding my whole life," she admitted on Heart radio, "but I actually never thought about what I would ever do or what I would want—until I met the person."
"So, I haven't actually even thought about doing a hen do," she noted of the British version of a Bachelorette party. "This is the first time I have thought about that."
Plus, she added of her gal pals, "They're so fun but they're so busy."
The Dress
When Taylor picks out a white dress, it's going to be one to remember.
Minus the price tags on her designer ensembles and deceptively simple-looking jewelry, the singer's style is relatable-chic, so we're picturing classic-with-a-twist from the likes of Oscar de la Renta, Elie Saab, Louis Vuitton, Zuhair Murad or J. Mendel, all longtime favorite labels.
Then, after she takes her vows in an elegant gown, the 5-foot-10 bride will surely change into a party dress more conducive to dancing all night.
And we eagerly await to see her nods to something old, something new, something borrowed and something blue.
The Groom's Attire
Travis does fashion, too, so he is going to have fun with his wedding suit, whatever form it may take.
The fact that he wore shorts to propose (it was a sticky August in Kansas, people) prompted some online dares for him to also wear an elevated pair of short pants down the aisle. But that would be quite the subversive move and he likely doesn’t want to steal attention from the girl standing in a nice dress next to him.
Although, if showing off his knees was important to him…
Assuring that she did not have a tuxedo picked out for her future husband already, Taylor told Cosmopolitan in 2012, "I don't want him to wonder if it even matters if he's there."
The Guests
Family is everything to Taylor and Travis, so the VIPs automatically include their respective parents and brothers. Presumable best man Jason Kelce also shares at least two flower girl-age daughters, Wyatt and Elliotte, with wife Kylie Kelce—though depending on when the big day is, little sister Bennett could grow into the role as well. (Alas, baby Finnley will probably have to sleep this one out.)
We'll see which of Travis' Kansas City Chiefs teammates make the cut, but he was a groomsman at QB Patrick Mahomes' 2022 wedding to Brittany Mahomes, so at the very least one boy from the football team should be there. He also has a loyal coterie of pals he's been cultivating since his Cleveland Heights days, so that golf-and-beer-centric bachelor party is gonna be lit.
As for the bride, childhood bestie Abigail Anderson has remained a mainstay in Taylor's life. And, while her famed squad has evolved over the years, Selena Gomez is still in the inner sourdough-gifting circle, as are Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds, despite rumors they've fallen out amid the actress' legal battle.
Not to mention, speaking of potential flower girls, Taylor is godmother to Blake and Ryan's daughters.
The Music
Addressing the band vs. DJ question, Travis said on the Sept. 17 episode of New Heights, "I think we're live music kind of people, you know?"
Ugh, we knew it, we're so on the same page.
And whether or not she takes the night off from performing, the bride has quite a few friends who know their way around a microphone. (We're especially looking at you, Haim.)
But Taylor joked it "would be hard to keep" Ed Sheeran from performing at her wedding.
"It's like, 'Ed, if there's a stage, you know that you'll be on it,'" she said during her Hits Radio interview in October 2025. "He knows what people want and he wants to give people what they want."
The Rings
Taylor may love Travis so much she'd marry him with paper rings, but that won't be the case.
Once again, if he keeps playing, he may have one of those sporty flexible wedding bands in rotation, but otherwise the scene has been set with the Old Mine Brilliant Cut diamond—by Kindred Lubeck of Artifex Fine Jewelry—that Travis picked out for his fiancée.
The engagement ring features an elongated center diamond flanked on each side by smaller diamonds, all set in custom-engraved yellow gold—and a perfect match for the $27,300 Cartier watch Taylor was wearing when he proposed.
Head Count
Just how massive will this white veil occasion be?
Avowed Swiftie Nikki Glaser predicted a "big" wedding, telling E! News at the 2025 MTV Video Music Awards, "It has to be. It's all been leading to this."
At the same time, the comedian reasoned, since Taylor "gets to be a bride every day," attention-wise, the wedding will likely be as private as humanly possible.
“She just wants to celebrate with all her family and friends, and she's got a lot of them," Nikki noted. "I look forward to the helicopter photos that will ruin her day somehow by hovering above."
Once the newlyweds have driven off into the sunset, however, there's no universe in which Taylor doesn’t start sharing scenes from her big day with her devoted fans.