With the festivities underway for Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s wedding weekend bonanza, the celebrity arrivals for Thursday’s rehearsal dinner at Madison Square Garden were nearly a covert operation.
The 14-time Grammy winner was said to be among the first to arrive around 4:30 p.m. but she was recognized only by the gray SUV that she was traveling in. Attendees such as Gigi Hadid, Selena Gomez, Bradley Cooper, Lena Dunham and Jack Antonoff and sister Rachel, were photographed en route to the event. Gomez glammed up her strapless black dress with Fernando Jorge’s “Flicker” 18k yellow gold earrings that are set with nearly 2-carat pear-cut diamonds, and a coordinating ring.
Pedestrians lingered in the 100-degree heat of the fading evening sun along Penn Plaza’s West 33rd Street corridor, enjoying gelato and burning time before their trains departed Penn Station Thursday evening. But that only lasted so long, before dozens of New York Police Department officials ushered people out of the area and set up more steel barricades. That included what had been all-day stakeout by camera crews and members of the media. Some remained in the area, just further back from the Madison Square Garden entrance to wait for the celebrities’ departures.
