Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce hosted a reported 1000 guests at their Madison Square Garden wedding Friday night. Madison Square Garden wedding. Isn’t it funny that we just say that now? Anyway. Celebrities from all corners of the Earth were spotted waltzing in and out of the arena: Steven Spielberg, Nelly, Paul McCartney, Fergie, Ronan Farrow, Hugh Grant, both of the Chainsmokers, on and on. And that’s to say nothing of Swift’s “squad” members, who were of course in attendance, though not officially bridesmaids (in a statement, Swift and Kelce said they had eschewed a traditional wedding party in favor of having their respective brothers as Best Man and Man of Honor). Gigi Hadid was there. Selena Gomez was there. Even Karlie Kloss was there.
But who wasn’t? Since Swift has been so demonstrative about her female friendships over the last ten years, it is unfortunately easy to see who has fallen so far out of favor that they don’t even make Swift’s Top 1000. The most notable absence: Blake Lively, who was by Swift’s side at the beginning of Swift and Kelce’s relationship (she was there for the Chiefs’ Super Bowl win in 2024) but was photographed on Thursday far away from the Garden at a children’s horse show in Lake Placid. Her husband, Ryan Reynolds, was with her, which means he also likely did not attend the wedding.
Swift, Kelce, Lively, and Reynolds were last photographed together in October 2024 at a double date at The Corner Store. That was just a couple months before Lively filed her lawsuit against Justin Baldoni, which ultimately led to some of Lively’s texts with Swift becoming public, which seems to have blown up the friendship. Sad. Swift is reportedly the godmother to all four of Lively and Reynolds’s kids, who could have made great flower girls and ring bearers.
Swift is also godmother to Jaime King’s son Leo, but there is no evidence King attended the wedding either. Swift and King seem to have fallen out sometime around 2019, though King congratulated her on her engagement to Kelce in an interview with Us Weekly last year. “I’m fucking stoked,” she said of the engagement. “Like, this is absolutely — this is the person. This is her person. Yeah, I’m so happy.” That’s nice at least!
Also missing in action was Swift’s once-dear friend Keleigh Teller, who was close enough with the pop star to be in the VIP suite at the 2024 Super Bowl and as her plus-one at the 2024 Golden Globes. A source claimed to Page Six last month that Swift and Teller also fell out as a result of the Lively-Baldoni lawsuit as Teller did not want to be associated with the drama. Another source claimed that Swift was not “empathetic” when Teller dropped out of attending an awards show with her for “personal reasons.”
“Friends told Keleigh to protect her mental health; she needs to take space, but they were still in contact here and there,” the source said.
But Swift hasn’t forgotten all of her old friends. I was surprised and delighted to see that Jessica Alba, who was among the storied cast of Swift’s 2015 “Bad Blood” video but who has not been seen with Swift at all in recent years, was at MSG last night with her boyfriend Danny Ramirez. That’s Swift’s squad for you: You can never quite predict who’s in or out.
