Having hope in your heart is all well and good, but you also need to know when to give up. At a certain point it’s time to accept cold, hard reality: we’re never going to see pictures of Taylor Swift in her wedding dress, are we?
There are many reasons this matters, and the first, admittedly, is plain old nosiness, with a side order of entitlement. We’ve spent years absorbing – some unintentionally, by osmosis – the details of Swift’s relationships, following her journey to happily ever after every step of the way, including the photos she released of the engagement moment. Obviously she is allowed to keep her wedding private, but being denied a glimpse of the dress feels – insert foot stamp here – unfair. More than that, it’s like a romcom ending before the final embrace, the protagonist still en route to the airport they have yet to run through. For somebody who is essentially a storyteller, this tale is uncharacteristically incomplete, unsatisfying. It’s not like Swift to leave us hanging.
How a bride decides to look on that momentous day is revealing, even when the dress is not – especially when she’s famous, so there are no limits, and all the showstoppers worn before must be outdone. A wedding dress choice shows people at their most vulnerable. This image is a tattoo on their history, even if they eventually regret their selection, of gown or groom. The pictures will be looked back on for ever, perhaps by descendants who aren’t entirely sure who they are. This is much bigger than just an outfit.
Seeing Swift in her wedding dress would have divulged more about the human being underneath than her most undefended lyric, exposed truths that carefully crafted interview replies have distracted from so far. Seems like the oversharing era was her maiden game.
• Polly Hudson is a freelance writer
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