Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce are expected to celebrate their wedding with a party at New York's Madison Square Garden this weekend. This was reported by Qazaqyia.kz citing BBC News.

Speculation about the ceremony has been rife ever since the couple announced their engagement in an Instagram post last August. They have said almost nothing about it, but you can't book New York's biggest indoor concert venue for an entire weekend without causing a few whispers.

The nuptials represent more than two celebrities tying the knot. They'll become one of the most powerful married couples in America, with a combined wealth of almost $2.2bn (£1.6bn), and huge sway across the music, sport, film, podcast, publishing and television industries.

But for Swifties, this is the culmination of a two-decade fairytale.

A bumpy start

Travis was spotted attending Taylor's Eras Tour when it hit Kansas City's Arrowhead Stadium on 8 July 2023. He watched from a private box – but was seen meeting fans and trading friendship bracelets.

He later revealed on his New Heights podcast that he'd tried to meet Swift – but his advances were rejected, because she was protecting her voice. "If you're up on Taylor Swift concerts, there are friendship bracelets, and I received a bunch of them being there, but I wanted to give Taylor Swift one with my number on it," he said later that month. "I was a little butt-hurt I didn't get to hand her one."

The clip went viral and got Taylor's attention. It felt like "he was standing outside of my apartment, holding a boom box saying, 'I want to go on a date with you'," she later recalled.

Going public

After the podcast, Swift had "a lot of people whispering in my ear", encouraging her to hook up with Travis. She caved in over the summer.

The couple went public on 24 September, when Taylor spent the day cheering on Travis's American football team, the Kansas City Chiefs, alongside his mum Donna. When he scored a touchdown, cameras caught her celebrating with an enthusiastic, "Let's ****ing go!". The couple later left together.

Taylor's fans were amazed. The star had usually gone to great lengths to protect her privacy – but this was a very public launch for a new relationship.

A few days afterwards, Travis confirmed as much. "Shoutout to Taylor for pulling up!" he said on his podcast. "That was pretty ballsy."

Two months later, in Argentina, Travis caught the Eras Tour for a second time – and Taylor made a significant change to the set in his honour. For the last song of the night, she swapped the lyric "Karma is the guy on the screen coming straight home to me" for "Karma is the guy on the Chiefs coming straight home to me". When the concert wrapped, she ran into his arms for a kiss.

Temperature rising

By this point, Taylor had completely dropped her guard. In January 2024, the Kansas Chiefs beat the Baltimore Ravens to secure their place at the Super Bowl - and the star rushed onto the pitch for a lingering smooch with their star player. A month later, she jetted to the Super Bowl from a concert in Tokyo, and scored another floodlit kiss when the Chiefs won.

Her presence at the games reportedly had a significant impact on viewing figures, especially among female audiences.

Taylor's first songs about the relationship appeared in April on her double album The Tortured Poets Department. The Alchemy appeared to reference their post-Super Bowl PDA, with the lyric "Where's the trophy? / He just comes running over to me".

The couple's names were combined among some Swifties to become "Tayvis".

Tayvis hits London

Taylor and Travis went Instagram official with a photo taken backstage at a London date of the Eras Tour in June 2024. The snapshot showed the couple with Prince William and his two elder children – who'd attended the show to celebrate William's 42nd birthday.