An event permit has been requested. Streets are set to be blocked off. Invitations have even been issued, per one source. But even the legions of staff who work at and around Madison Square Garden — the massive sports arena in the heart of Manhattan where Taylor Swift is rumored to be celebrating her wedding next weekend — aren’t so sure.
“She’s a glamorous girl,” said one NYPD officer positioned outside the Garden. “She wouldn’t get married here.”
Indeed, the Garden is a far cry from the venues that have seen celebrity nuptials in the past — think Jeff Bezos taking over Venice to wed Lauren Sánchez or even Dua Lipa in Sicily. The arena is a behemoth hunk of metal in the most tourist-packed part of the city, whose floors have absorbed the sweat and tears of hundreds of athletes and music fans.
CNN spoke to a dozen New York Police Department officers stationed around the arena, all of whom were still doubtful that Swift and Travis Kelce will really have some sort of wedding event at the Garden next weekend. That’s despite CNN and other outlets reporting on a mountain of clues pointing to a July 3 Tayvis wedding event.
Three security guards at MSG and two Amtrak police officers said the same thing: that if she is celebrating her wedding there, they haven’t heard about it or been told to prepare.
