Sir Paul McCartney commanded the stage at Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s star-studded summer wedding — at the bride’s special request.
“Sometimes you didn’t get the email, I’m sure you know that, but sometimes I ring them up and say, ‘Yeah,’ I’ve done that a couple times,” McCartney, 83, quipped on the Friday, October 2, taping of Jimmy Kimmel Live! of frequent performance requests. “[Taylor] asked me to do it.”
According to McCartney, Swift, 36, specifically wanted him to perform The Beatles’ 1964 hit “I Wanna Hold Your Hand.”
“It was [her request], and ‘cause she was onstage, I said, ‘You should sing along,’” he recalled. “‘And you should sing it to your man, Travis!’”
McCartney was among the famous faces present when Swift and Kelce, 36, said “I do” at New York City’s Madison Square Garden in July.
“[Our] wedding was the best night of my life,” Kelce gushed during an August press conference. “I appreciate everybody who came out and celebrated and had fun with us. That’s about all I really got from that night. It was a crazy night. It was full of a lot of celebration.”
For Kelce, he felt particularly starstruck to say his vows inside the famed arena.
“MSG, man, I always told myself I’d go for a playoff game when the [New York] Knicks were rocking, and my wife went when I was stuck in minicamp,” Kelce said, referring to the pop star’s attendance at Game 4 of the 2026 NBA Finals. “I didn’t get the opportunity to go then, so it’s kind of cool to get to live out my childhood dream of being in that venue, the mecca of all sports venues, [by] being able to get married in there.”
He continued at the time, “I can’t thank the owners of MSG [enough] for allowing us to get the opportunity to do that, knowing that we wanted a private event and everything. The A/C was cooking, baby. That was the best part.”
Swift, who donned a bespoke Christian Dior bridal gown for the occasion, has since been a proud wife as Kelce kicked off the 2026 NFL season. The “Patient Zero” singer has not missed any of Kelce’s Kansas City Chiefs home games this fall, even enthusiastically cheering, “That’s my husband,” when he scored a touchdown.
“Listen, man. Proud wife, baby,” Kelce reacted during a September 23 episode of his “New Heights” podcast. “Gotta make my girl proud.”
Swift, however, skipped Kelce’s September 27 away game while attending the 2026 MTV Video Music Awards and the couple supported one another from afar. Kelce even dropped a handful of “likes” on coverage of his wife’s Tamara Ralph corset gown.
