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International Business Times UK
International Business Times UK
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Welbert Bauyaban

Why Travis Kelce Scrapped His 'Grand' Proposal Plans for Taylor Swift At the Last Minute

Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce participating in a celebrity softball game at Eastlake's Classic Park to benefit the Lake Health Foundation and the Jarvis Landry Building Winners Foundation on June 12, 2021. (Credit: Erik Drost, CC BY 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons)

Travis Kelce nearly turned his proposal to Taylor Swift into a bigger, later, and frankly fussier affair, according to his father, Ed Kelce, who said on Wednesday that the Kansas City Chiefs tight end had planned to wait before asking the singer to marry him. Ed made the remarks while speaking to reporters at Jason Kelce's Team 62 fundraiser in Sea Isle City, New Jersey, where the family was already in a celebratory mood over the pair's engagement.

Swift and Kelce announced their engagement in August 2025, and since then the story has only grown larger, with speculation about the wedding becoming almost as noisy as the romance itself. What Ed has now added is a more personal detail, that Travis was tempted to delay the proposal so he could stage something more elaborate. In other words, the whole thing could have gone in a far flashier, slightly mad direction.

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