Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce recreated the menu from an N.Y.C. Italian restaurant for their rehearsal dinner
The intimate event featured romantic decor and speeches, a source tells PEOPLE, with celebrity friends like Lena Dunham and Jack Antonoff attending
The couple’s MSG wedding included 1,000 guests, a forest-like setting, Italian food and a dessert table with 30 cakes
Before Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce tied the knot, they kicked off their nuptials with an intimate rehearsal celebration.
The dinner, which brought together the couple’s family and friends on Thursday, July 2 in the Infosys Theater at Madison Square Garden, featured food from N.Y.C. Italian restaurant Sartiano’s, a source tells PEOPLE exclusively.
“They did a recreation of the menu from the restaurant for Taylor and Travis,” the source says.
“The rehearsal was very intimate, it felt small and like a mini wedding,” the insider continues of the evening. “There were speeches, there was so much love in the air.”
They add, “There were tasteful flowers around and the decor was romantic, but tasteful, it was much more scaled back and intimate than the wedding the next day.”
Per Sartiano’s website, the restaurant located in The Mercer hotel in SoHo focuses on the intersection of “timeless elegance” and “downtown energy,” with a menu featuring a range of Italian pastas, steaks and mains.
The menu includes a caviar section, along with crudo and tartare offerings and salad options.
The appetizers also include a house-made focaccia, served with whipped ricotta, a burrata dish, fritto misto with calamari and rock shrimp and more.
The menu has pastas ranging from Wagyu beef ragú fusilli to Maine lobster and Calabrian chili butter bucatini, along with various cuts of steak.
The restaurant’s mains also include a Dover sole and branzino, with sides like fingerling potatoes with truffle aioli and roasted carrots with pomegranate yogurt.
Swift and Kelce, both 36, are known for stepping out to N.Y.C. hotspots for date nights, and they are fans of the SoHo Italian spot. The pair were seen arriving hand-in-hand at the restaurant for a date night on Friday, May 22.
Another source tells PEOPLE the dinner was “very touching and intimate.”
The personal event included the couple’s family and celebrity friends, including Lena Dunham, Jack Antonoff, Erin Andrews, Charissa Thompson, Greg Olsen, and Aric Jones, who were spotted arriving at the venue around 6 p.m. on July 2. The A-listers brought glam to the celebration, sporting jewel-toned and sequined dresses.
Selena Gomez shared a selfie from the car, while Abigail Anderson was also spotted en route to the dinner.
Jones is a longtime friend of Kelce’s, telling PEOPLE in an earlier interview that he met Kelce in Cleveland Heights, Ohio when Kelce was about 6 and Jones was around 4.
Anderson and Swift are also longtime best friends, having met in English class on the first day of freshman year at Hendersonville High School in Tennessee over 20 years ago. Anderson is the inspiration, in part, for Swift’s hit song “Fifteen.”
The second insider says that at the wedding, which took place on Friday, July 3, at Madison Square Garden, “the food was endless.”
“There were so many stations and options,” the source says, adding that there were “lots of doughnuts around where the games were.” The party featured numerous games, with winners getting raffle tickets for the chance to win items like designer bags, watches and a 1970 Chevrolet Chevelle, the same car that Kelce drove off in with Swift after her first Chiefs game in September 2023.
Another insider previously told PEOPLE that the reception included stations with Italian offerings like pasta in a parmesan wheel, along with sushi, steak, burgers and fries and seafood. There were also “bars everywhere,” the source said.
TMZ reported that the singer and Chiefs tight end bypassed a traditional wedding cake, instead opting for a massive dessert table topped with about 30 different cakes, each of which featured a unique 3D figure of the couple. The outlet said the dessert offerings also included other sweet treats.
A source told PEOPLE exclusively that the dessert table included items like pop tarts, cookies and pastries and was “a focal point” of the festivities.
The fun-filled celebration followed the couple officially getting married, as Swift’s rep confirmed to PEOPLE. The news was also announced on jumbotrons outside the arena that said: “JUST&T MARRIED!”
An insider told PEOPLE that the couple read their vows, which were about 20 minutes each, from gold books. The source said the arena “looked like a forest,” with ferns, trees and seats covered in white.
A-listers were seen flocking to the event, which included an estimated 1,000 guests, including Dakota Johnson, Mariska Hargitay and Peter Hermann, Gigi Hadid and Bradley Cooper, Ed Sheeran and Cherry Seaborn, the Haim sisters, The Chicks, Brad Paisley and Kimberly Williams Paisley, Hugh Grant, Zoë Kravitz and more.
A friend of the couple told PEOPLE that the newly married couple took time to “talk to everyone they could” and kept “thanking everyone for being there.”
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It could be because she wants to work it out, or because Twitter has decided she is/was cheating. Either way their relationship sounds tumultuous. And unarchiving their pics after announcing a separation while the internet is posting pics of you and your costar just adds to its volatility.
If she was really cheating, well... that's karma for him.
A few weeks ago a mutual of mine told me she was friends with a guy who was either like a journalist or DJ that Jack did a quick interview with to promote the Bleachers tour and he had told my mutual that Jack blacklisted Margaret’s name, questions about their upcoming anniversary, relationship, all of it and she thought at the time it was weird because usually Jack gushes about her in interviews. But I thought it was more because he was promoting Bleachers and not just himself or solo projects so he wanted the focus to not be on him. I hadn’t heard about the rumors about her and Drew, but I don’t really keep up with either Margaret or Jack like that.
I don't keep up with them either so the news totally caught me off guard. I mean, Lana wrote a whole song about them I really thought they were meant to be.
I wonder why she is unarchiving her posts was Jack the one who pull the trigger and confirmed the break up while she wants to keep it under wraps for now??
Maybe because things were fine for a while and then it all went to shit again?
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The may timing of the rumors starting is interesting bc apparently she changed her insta name and maybe deleted/archived stuff w jack in April
So that's it. We just found out about something that's been going on for a while. And that interview where she seemed so meh about TLOASG? I can't help but think it was related to all of this lol
People magazine just said that it was “rocky from the beginning” and they have had problems for years even though they’ve only been married shy of three years. Sounds like there were red flags from the beginning but they ignored them 😕
So this isn't really a surprise. Not even to them I imagine. I know this has nothing to do with Taylor but it's exactly what I always thought would've happened if she'd married Joe: a divorce after a short lived marriage.
There were rumors back in May that when she and Drew Starkey were filming for their new movie that people thought they were a little toooo close and filming ended a few weeks ago and they were still getting photographed together, so the rumors have been around for awhile. When people were speculating that she didn’t go to the wedding because she either was filming, or because she didn’t really like Taylor, or didn’t want to be around Lena , or that she was pregnant, I had a suspicion that it was actually true about her and Jack having problems.
Wow. Thanks for the update! I had a suspicion something was wrong when she didn't go to the wedding but I had no idea about the rumors. If she ended up getting close to her co-star then there were probably problems at home long before any of this happened. Sad.
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they have a friends wedding this weekend and then travis is going to mandatory football camp the week after, so if there's no photos before then, then i think she's holding onto them for a while or forever lol
She already knows when and how she's posting the photos. All that's left for us to do is wait. They'll be out sooner rather than later that's for sure.
“And she talked in her vows about how, in high school, he was like, the star athlete, but the kind of guy who would go and sit at the table with the less popular kids and keep them company and be nice to them when they were being bullied—the kind of person that she wished she could’ve known when she was in high school. Really touching, very personal, and very heartfelt.”
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