Extra: In Her Tacky Wedding Era
Pop princess Taylor Swift’s net worth is $2 billion. Unless the whole thing is a massive decoy, she is using part of that enormous fortune to host a wedding reception for her marriage to Travis Kelce at Madison Square Garden (MSG) today.
The modern-day Colosseum sits between West 31st and 33rd Streets and 7th and 8th Avenues in Manhattan. Entire streets surrounding the venue are closed off. There are sharpshooters on top of MSG at present.
The VIP guests, from Sabrina Carpenter to Steven Spielberg, will party from 4 pm to 4 am, starting this afternoon.
Call me crazy, but I can’t imagine a more vulgar venue or a more meretricious matrimonial display.
We live in tacky times. The current president, whose love of all things gold surpasses Bond villain Goldfinger's, has bedecked the once-staid Oval Office with gilded tchotchkes. Now, Swift says, "Hold my beer."
This won’t be the first time MSG was a wedding venue. In 1982, the Unification Church Founder Reverend Sun Myung Moon married 2,075 couples and set the Guinness World Record at the time for the largest wedding held at a single location.
Today, the richest pop star on the planet is setting a Guinness World Record for the tackiest bride.
MSG was last in the news as the site of the Knicks’ championship victory. Even I got excited about it. Those were simpler times by comparison.
Admittedly, I am no Swiftie. I do not like any of her songs. We were once almost neighbors, but even then I kept my distance from her oeuvre.
While others were oohing and aahing over the Eras tour, I was scratching my head, wondering what people saw in such an anemic, white-bread songstress. But I admired her wide-ranging philanthropic efforts and perhaps even the scope of her ambition.
Even Jeff Bezos and his booby-licious bride, Lauren Sánchez, had Venice. As a New York Times editorial pondered, why would Swift not choose Paris, Portofino, or the Lake District?
Money, they say, can’t buy taste. Nor can it buy a tasteful wedding.
This won’t be the first time MSG was a wedding venue. In 1982, the Unification Church Founder Reverend Sun Myung Moon married 2,075 couples and set the Guinness World Record at the time for the largest wedding held at a single location.
Today, the richest pop star on the planet is setting a Guinness World Record for the tackiest bride.
MSG was last in the news as the site of the Knicks’ championship victory. Even I got excited about it. Those were simpler times by comparison.
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While others were oohing and aahing over the Eras tour, I was scratching my head, wondering what people saw in such an anemic, white-bread songstress. But I admired her wide-ranging philanthropic efforts and perhaps even the scope of her ambition.
Even Jeff Bezos and his booby-licious bride, Lauren Sánchez, had Venice. As a New York Times editorial pondered, why would Swift not choose Paris, Portofino, or the Lake District?
Money, they say, can’t buy taste. Nor can it buy a tasteful wedding.
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I agree with you. This makes no sense to me either. It feels less like a wedding celebration and more like a giant PR event.
ReplyDeleteThe best view of this "event" is the loading dock...haha
ReplyDeleteAgree. It’s weird when you think about it. We Americans spend money to visit Versailles, and the castles and cathedrals of Europe, built off the backs of those who toiled to build them. We ooh and ahh but when it is our very own home-grown filthy rich flaunting, it gets a bit uncomfortable for some.
ReplyDeleteI have thoughts. 😀 At first, I thought having it at MSG was kind of dumb, but then I started thinking about the logistics—especially security. It’s controlled entry and exit, security at every door, underground tunnels for vehicles, facial recognition inside, and, probably most importantly, no paparazzi access.
ReplyDeleteThe more I thought about it, the more I realized it probably isn’t about the spectacle of being at MSG as much as it’s about safety and privacy. Even if they were on a private island somewhere, they’d still have security concerns and paparazzi flying drones overhead. So I can definitely see both sides of the argument. The more I thought it through, the more it made sense. Can you guess who this is? Hahaha
It’s definitely flashy having the tents and caterers etc all outside, along with police presence and road closures, but that was bound to happen at any venue she would have used. I also think crowd control is easier in a city than it is at a random country club or suburban venue.
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