Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce got married Friday night at Madison Square Garden in New York City. Guests who attended the July 3 ceremony have since shared details about the vows, which both the bride and groom read aloud from small handwritten books.
According to a report by Billboard, GMA's Robin Roberts revealed the "little book" detail Saturday morning during a broadcast in which she was joined by fellow wedding attendees Michael Strahan and George Stephanopoulos. Stephanopoulos described the vows as "everything you would hope for — real, vulnerable, serious and silly, deeply loving" in a separate report on ABC News the night of the wedding.
The next morning on GMA, Stephanopoulos added that the event was styled as a "garden inside the Garden." He said, "It was just beautiful."
AMC CEO Adam Aron, also a guest, posted a longer account to social media before later deleting it. He described the vows as "long, entertaining, personal, charming, emotional, irreverent and endearing explorations by each as to how they met, why they want to be with each other for all eternity, the promises they made in joining their much-beloved two whole families (Kelce's and Swift's) as one, and committing to their new mutual life together."
Aron said the exchange of vows ended with "a sweep you off your feet kiss." He also described the décor in detail, writing that "large blown up pictures of Taylor and Travis at each age, year by year from one year-old to late teenager-hood, were on display." He described the venue as having been transformed so that it was "devoid of any notion that that a basketball or hockey game ever shared that space," adding that "somehow magically, someone created an outdoor garden at a lush countryside retreat."
The post-ceremony party, Aron wrote, was like a "stage set of a 'Secret Garden' that was just exquisite. With five-story-tall lit 'trees.'"
The garden theme and the handwritten books echo imagery Swift has used in her music. On her 2024 album The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology, Swift wrote about going "to secret gardens in my mind; I read about it in a book when I was a precocious child," a reference to the classic children's novel The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett.
