Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce just had the wedding of the year at Madison Square Garden. A colossal number of high-profile guests were in attendance as she tied the knot, but, with no official photos released, they’re the only ones who got to enjoy her and Kelce in their wedding finery.
But even with the party reportedly stretching to over a thousand guests, it seems there just wasn’t enough room, with some people indignant they were left out of both the rehearsal dinner and the wedding itself.
It seems many of these are Kelce’s NFL buddies, with The Daily Mail reporting that ex-NFL players turned podcasters Taylor Lewan and Will Compton said they were “snubbed”. Compton went as far as to say he was “flabbergasted” that he was overlooked, with Lewan wondering if the lack of an invitation is a “personal shot” at him from Kelce.
“Some people who are close to Harrison feel like he was snubbed.”
The Mail also reports that an unnamed Chiefs player has told them that the wedding invite drama has caused “locker room chaos”, particularly that Harrison Butker wasn’t invited.
Butker has won three Super Bowls alongside Kelce, though the vocal Trump supporter also made waves off the pitch with a homophobic and sexist college commencement speech in 2018 in which he called Pride month “a deadly sin” and indicated women should choose being a “homemaker” over pursuing a career.
The anonymous Chiefs player is directly quoted as saying:
“It’s really their wedding and I understand why they wouldn’t have invited [Butker]. But there’s some difference of opinion [between players]. Lots of texts are going around the team and some people who are close to Harrison feel like he was snubbed.”
He added:
“A few people think [Kelce and Swift] should’ve invited [Butker] explicitly but, really, why? He came at [Swift, who has prioritized an extremely successful career] first, it kind of was shade in the speech. And since when are you required to invite everyone to a wedding?”
This player is also said to have revealed that various Chiefs WhatsApp groups were abuzz with wedding chat as people clocked who’d been invited and who hadn’t, questions over whether it was expected they should bring a gift, how transport to and from the event would work, the difficulties in finding a hotel room close to Madison Square Garden, and how wives and girlfriends’ invites work.
On that front, it’s said that “Taylor is officially a football wife now” so she’ll be “invited to their wine nights and stuff, but she won’t go”. That said, if you want real “trash talk”, see that group chat: “My girlfriend won’t even let me look at her phone to see it.’
But, while there are some sour grapes, it seems everyone has the right perspective. The player is quoted as saying: “‘I don’t think anyone on the team wishes [Kelce] anything but good things. Everyone likes him. He’s a good teammate and a good friend. There’s locker room s**t but it’s nothing disrespectful.”
In other Taylor Swift/Travis Kelce wedding news, the Kelce family was said to have found the experience “overwhelming”, and that Swift’s prenup agreement reportedly stretches to $2 billion and has a clause said to “terrify” Kelce.
Published: Jul 8, 2026 08:20 am