The clock is counting down on Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce's engagement era.
This isn't a two-minute warning, but sooner or later the pair are going to swap vows during what will inevitably be the wedding of the year. As for which year...
While Taylor has stressed that, contrary to popular belief, she didn't spend much time gaming out what she wanted for her big day until she met the right guy, the 36-year-old said on The Graham Norton Show in October that she was "so excited" to figure it all out.
“I know it’s gonna be fun to plan," she explained, "because I think the only stressful weddings are the ones where you have a small amount and people are on the bubble.”
So, long guest list, check.
In September, Travis also referred to planning as "the next step in it all," noting that he had football to focus on at the moment. But with the Kansas City Chiefs not a lock to make the postseason, which kicks off in January, it's unclear whether the veteran tight end is going to find himself with free time in the first quarter of 2026.
It also remains to be seen if the groom-to-be's schedule will coincide with the NFL's for at least another year. Because if Travis chooses to keep playing, he'll have a bye week here and there but won't really be available for, say, autumn '26 nuptials.
"My friends always do it in the summer," Travis noted on his and brother Jason Kelce's New Heights podcast in January. "I've seen weddings everywhere but the fall. So, I'm not sure if the fall is a good wedding season."
Jason reminded the 36-year-old that there "are a lot more important things than football," but when the retired athlete was playing for the Philadelphia Eagles, he and Kylie Kelce tied the knot in April 2018, so they may have also said "I do" to compromise.
But so far, Travis and Taylor have been remarkably in sync, the Life of a Showgirl artist gushing about how her then-boyfriend took mental notes "like a year and a half ago" when she showed him a video about the jeweler he later enlisted to design her engagement ring.
"He was just paying attention to everything, it turns out," Taylor said of her fiancé on Heart Breakfast in October. "When I saw the ring, I was like, ‘I know who made that, I know who made that!’ And also, ‘You listen to me.’”
Speaking of listening closely, even if we end up sitting at the table reserved for the bride and groom's parasocial relationships, here is all there is to know so far about Taylor and Travis' wedding game plan:
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 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, which dropped Oct. 3.
The Bachelorette Party
While Taylor is known for having a celebrity-heavy squad, she admitted in October 2025 that she had yet to consider any bachelorette party plans.
"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 said on the U.K.'s Heart Breakfast, "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, invoking the British slang. "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.
But no less a wedding dress authority than Vera Wang predicted multiple looks and that Taylor "will be in lace of some sort.”
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, in addition to coach Andy Reid. 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.
It also isn't hard to picture someone close to the couple getting ordained and officiating the ceremony, though we aren't laying money on Flavor Flav.
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?
Taylor indicated on The Graham Norton Show in October that she didn't want the stress of having to cut names from the guest list, explaining that whittling it down meant having to "evaluate or assess your relationship" with people.
And, she added, "I'm not gonna do that."
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.