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Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s love story continues to enthrall fans — and their engagement took things to another level.
“This is the closest we’re getting to an American royal wedding,” one social media user wrote via X on Tuesday, August 26, a sentiment that Maya Thompson, whose son Ronan’s death from leukemia at age 4 inspired Swift’s song of the same name, shared.
“The only royal wedding that will ever matter,” Thompson wrote via her X page. “@taylorswift13 — if only you could see the tears from here. No one is more worthy of this kind of love than you.”
Swift and Kelce, both 35, announced on Tuesday that they are planning to tie the knot.
“Your English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married,” a joint Instagram caption read, alongside a carousel of dreamy proposal portraits.
Kelce got down on bended knee — with permission from Swift’s parents — in his backyard earlier in August, around the couple’s two-year anniversary.
As Swift and Kelce are looking forward to their next steps as a couple, so are her devoted fans.
“It’s a love story, baby, just say YES,” one fan wrote via X, quoting Swift’s song “Love Story.”
Other fans commented lyrics like “He kneeled to the ground and pulled out a ring” from “Love Story,” “I’ll be 87, you’ll be 89” from “Mary’s Song” and even lines from “So High School” — the Tortured Poets Department song that was written about Kelce.
A handful of other Swifties could barely concentrate on the remainder of their corporate workdays because they were over-the-moon excited that the Grammy winner finally got her happy ending.
“Work can wait, debriefing @taylorswift and @killatrav’s engagement cannot 💍,” an Instagram post on The Home Edit’s account read.
In the home organization firm’s upload, one of the staffers called founder Clea Shearer on FaceTime to deliver the news.
“Are you dead? I am still recovering from surgery,” Shearer, 43, said in the clip, referring to her ongoing breast cancer battle. “My heart can’t [take it]. Not only are they engaged, but we got photos!”
She added, “They are not chaotic enough to get engaged today and post photos today, obviously. We know that Ms. Taylor Alison Swift would never, and the photos show seasonality. It had to happen in the warm weather, so I’m thinking in the last maybe month or two they got engaged.”
Travis’ own father, Ed Kelce, put an end to the rampant speculation later that night when he appeared on a pair of podcasts. During the interviews, Ed explained that Travis popped the question two weeks earlier in his Kansas City, Missouri, backyard after filling the garden with extra peonies and roses.
Following Ed’s unexpected confirmation, Swifties tried to deduce what made Tuesday at 1 p.m. ET the perfect time to share the news — and break the internet.
“Taylor didn’t pick AUGUST by accident,” one fan wrote via TikTok, noting August, which is the name of one of her songs and is the eighth month of the year. “Eight + forever. She announces her engagement on Aug. 26. What is Track 26?? ‘The Prophecy.’”
Swift’s 26th song on the extended version of TTPD is “The Prophecy,” all about her pleas to break the prophecy of never having a partner.
“By saying YES to Travis, she literally broke her own prophecy,” the fan wrote. “She flipped ‘August’ (the song about fleeting love) into August (the month of forever). I’m giddy, like, HELLO?”
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Others, meanwhile, are still kicking their heels about the couple’s journey from podcast rejection to endgame.
“Travis traded that friendship bracelet in for a ring,” a fan tweeted, with another mentioning that Swift “dating her biggest fan is actually how it should be.”
“Women should only date men that are completely and utterly obsessed with them,
the individual mentioned, as another joked that Swift is the “greatest catch” of Kelce’s career as an NFL tight end.
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