Taylor Swift paid more than 160,000 dollars (£120,000) to cover the cost of public resources spent by the city of New York on her wedding, mayor Zohran Mamdani said.
Last Friday, the pop star and NFL player Travis Kelce, both 36, tied the knot at Madison Square Garden in a ceremony that was officiated over by Adam Sandler.
A billboard outside the venue read “JUST&T MARRIED” after the ceremony took place.
The couple were reported to have invited around 1,000 guests, with celebrities including Gigi Hadid and Bradley Cooper, Graham Norton, Ed Sheeran, Hugh Grant and Ethan Hawke all in attendance.
Speaking at a press conference on Thursday, Mr Mamdani told reporters that Swift has covered at least £120,000 of the city’s expenses for the event, such as security.
“Taylor Swift … has paid already the cost of the permit that was lodged, which was over 160,000 dollars for that event and for the response to that event,” Mr Mamdani said.
“That was a permit that was finalised, I think, in just the days before the event itself.”
More details have emerged since the wedding day, including that Kelce’s brother Jason’s young daughters were flower girls, while Swift walked down the aisle as a string quartet played one of her own songs.
As the celebrations wrapped up, a string of stars were photographed leaving the venue in black cars, including Reese Witherspoon, Brad Pitt, Steven Spielberg, Gracie Abrams, Millie Bobby Brown, Tom Brady, Tom Hanks, Sacha Baron Cohen, and Phoebe Dynevor.
Other guests included Nelly and Ashanti, Jennifer Lopez, Jessica Alba, and Benson Boone.
On Saturday, clean-up got underway at the arena, with crews seen beginning to dismantle the wedding set-up, unloading items including monogrammed set pieces and bars to chairs, booths, cushions and decorative trees.
Workers were also seen pulling down the massive tent outside the venue.
In August last year, Swift and Kelce announced their engagement in a joint Instagram post, which read: “Your English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married.”
Their romance began in 2023 after Kelce publicly announced on his podcast that he was interested in Swift, which she later said was a “wild, romantic gesture”.
In October 2025, Swift made her first TV appearance on Graham Norton’s BBC talk show since her engagement, where she jokingly told the host she was planning on inviting “anyone I’ve ever talked to” to her wedding.
Ahead of the wedding, the pair donated 26 million dollars (£19.4 million) to 20 charities, including nine food banks, an animal cruelty organisation, seven educational programmes, and three children’s hospitals.
