PremiumEmily YahrWashington Post·5 Jul, 2026 08:47 PM9 mins to readOnlookers climb onto scaffolding outside Madison Square Garden, the venue of Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce's wedding, in the hopes of scoring a better view. Photo / Sara Konradi, The Washington PostNews of the closest thing America has to a royal wedding was both everywhere and unknowable.

On the corner of West 31st Street and Seventh Avenue, right outside Madison Square Garden, the heat was scorching as the temperature inched to 100 degrees Fahrenheit (37.8C). But this was the afternoon of