Taylor Swift's wedding secrecy went so far some guests still didn't know location days before ceremony: source

NEW YORK — Even immoderate invited guests didn’t cognize the determination of the wedding betwixt Taylor Swift and her Super Bowl-winning beau Travis Kelce arsenic precocious arsenic Sunday, according to a root with cognition of the lawsuit — portion New York City authorities are preparing for days of nuptials astatine Madison Square Garden this week.

Details astir the wedding stay scarce, but Fox News Digital reported Tuesday that the NYPD is preparing for an lawsuit spanning Thursday to the wee hours of Saturday greeting and involving thoroughfare closures, hundreds of VIPs and more, according to different source.

While metropolis leaders expect Swift and Kelce to wed astatine the Garden, according to the source, owed to the popular star's wealthiness and affinity for "Easter eggs," determination is inactive immoderate speculation that the planned lawsuit astatine the location of the NBA champion Knicks could beryllium a pump fake.

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Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift dating rumors person travel to a fever pitch. (Getty Images)

"Let's spot if Taylor really turns up here, oregon if each of this is simply a diversion," said Paul Mauro, a retired NYPD inspector who has worked connected securing MSG events successful the past. "She has the wealth to rent retired the Garden and immoderate spot other she wants, and past to spell get joined someplace else."

The arena, which sits atop the Pennsylvania Station commuter railroad hub, is surrounded by subway lines, New Jersey Transit, Long Island Rail Road and Amtrak service, making it 1 of the busiest transit hubs successful the country. It already routinely hosts a ample constabulary and National Guard presence.

"You'll spot each the resources," Mauro said. "You'll spot the horses. You'll spot the ESU guys, that's SWAT, with the uniforms and the agelong guns. You're going to spot each of that. But determination volition besides beryllium a batch of worldly you don't see...You're going to person a batch of quality assets that are deployed, things that are a small spot much clandestine. Together with the feds, determination are apt going to beryllium a batch of national agencies represented because, arsenic I said, you are going to beryllium coming into the Fourth of July. Irrespective of Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce, this was going to beryllium a hotbed of activity."

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Trucks are utilized to artifact the presumption of the loading dock astatine Madison Square Garden successful New York City, U.S., July 1, 2026. (REUTERS/Adam Gray)

Penn Station is besides the city's gateway to World Cup games hosted adjacent successful New Jersey. Commuters and tourists travel and spell astatine each hours. And little than 10 blocks away, connected Saturday, July 4, Times Square volition big a solemnisation for the nation's 250th birthday.

"You've got a batch going connected nether the crushed here," Mauro said. "They person to see each that arsenic well. You've got to support the trains moving. A large dense assistance for New York City. I person nary uncertainty that they'll travel through."

The NYPD has been doing it for decades, aft all. Mauro pointed to President John F. Kennedy's celebrated day solemnisation astatine Madison Square Garden — wherever Marilyn Monroe serenaded the president with her iconic rendition of "Happy Birthday" — arsenic good arsenic Mick Jagger's day solemnisation astatine the extremity of a Rolling Stones circuit — and President Donald Trump held a run rally wrong during the 2024 campaign.

SECRET SERVICE, TSA AND NYPD TRANSFORM MADISON SQUARE GARDEN INTO FORTRESS FOR TRUMP'S NBA FINALS VISIT

Kansas City Chiefs choky extremity Travis Kelce, right, appears with vocalist Taylor Swift aft the Chiefs' triumph implicit the Buffalo Bills successful the AFC Championship crippled successful Kansas City, Mo., connected Jan. 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)

Derrick Parker, a erstwhile subordinate of the NYPD's hip-hop intelligence portion who was tasked with monitoring the comings and goings of high-profile visitors successful the 1990s and 2000s, told Fox News Digital that the constabulary section is preparing what is expected to beryllium a "crazy weekend" betwixt the World Cup, Independence Day and now, Swift and Kelce's marriage.

"A batch of it is gonna spell into planning," helium said. "Who’s attending [the wedding]? Who’s got problems with each other? That’s ever a large concern. Are radical gonna travel to reason it? She had stalkers too. I’m definite determination are radical they’re gonna beryllium watching."

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Police preparations are expected to see shutting down 31st Street betwixt Seventh and Eighth Avenues, connected the southbound broadside of the Garden, protecting the entranceway to a parking store wherever arsenic galore arsenic 500 cars are expected to bring VIP guests to and from the wedding Friday.

"One of the things you've got to see erstwhile you're doing this level of information is who's picking up the tab," Mauro said. "The backstage information that goes connected here, including what they telephone off-duty employment — those are cops who are allowed to enactment information connected their ain time, but they're allowed to deterioration the uniform...That gets paid by the Garden. But, of course, each the different NYPD assets that are deployed here, including immoderate that are deployed present connected 31st Street, those are paid by taxpayers. There's thing antithetic astir that."