Rumors are swirling about a potential wedding between Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce at Madison Square Garden, with estimates suggesting the event could cost a staggering $20 million, according to a top-tier event planner.
Sonal Shah, a prominent luxury wedding planner based in Manhattan, has suggested that securing The World’s Most Famous Arena for their speculated July 3 wedding date might set them back around $2.5 million just for the venue rental.
“For a high-profile wedding at Madison Square Garden on a Saturday night, the rental costs could range from $1 million to $2.5 million before any of the actual wedding preparations begin,” Shah explained to The Post.
However, she noted that for a celebrity wedding of this magnitude, these venue fees would likely represent only a small portion of the total expenditure.
With two decades of expertise and recognition from Brides magazine as one of America’s top wedding planners, Shah emphasized that the couple would need to assemble a comprehensive team, including extensive security, which would significantly add to the costs.
“Booking a prime weekend evening at such an iconic location involves more than just the rental fee,” Shah remarked. “It includes costs for exclusivity, staffing, security, logistical operations, and compensating for the potential revenue lost from a concert or sporting event that might otherwise take place.”
“Once you add production, security, catering, entertainment and décor, a Madison Square Garden wedding could very realistically become a $10 million to $20 million-plus event.”
Page Six reported Friday that multiple sources revealed the duo would be tying the knot at MSG — with one explaining they chose the venue because “privacy was of number one importance to them both.”
The Garden, which happens to have no events planned from June 29 through July 6, has various entrances, which would afford the bride and groom and their star-studded guests to slip in and out undetected.
In lieu of paper wedding invitations, Swift personally called her wedding guests, TMZ reported. They reportedly includd Karlie Kloss, Zoë Kravitz, Ed Sheeran, the Haim sisters, Suki Waterhouse, Gigi Hadid and Selena Gomez.
Swift has been known to celebrate the Fourth of July by throwing massive celebrity-filled shindigs at her Rhode Island mansion.
Therefore, it’s only fitting that she hosts the largest party of her lifetime — her wedding to Kelce — on the weekend of America’s 250th anniversary.
