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Diving into the Swift-Kelce engagement
A bejeweled Taylor Swift broke Instagram records Tuesday arsenic the popular prima and Kansas City Chiefs choky extremity Travis Kelce announced their engagement successful a associated post.
Fans person been anxious to larn everything they tin astir the engagement into the lead-up to this TBD achromatic veil occasion.
Here's what we cognize truthful acold astir your English teacher and gym teacher's engagement:
When did Swift and Kelce get engaged?
The mates announced their engagement connected Aug. 26, 13 days aft Swift's "New Heights" occurrence dropped. Fans were speedy to speculate astir erstwhile Kelce popped the question — and they didn't person to hold agelong earlier getting a timeline from Kelce's dada Ed, who told News 5 Cleveland that the mates got engaged astir 2 weeks ago.
Ed said helium was astatine the Philadelphia Eagles' nationalist signifier connected Aug. 10 erstwhile helium got a Facetime from the recently engaged couple. He told "The Jimmy & Nath Show" that Travis had planned to suggest adjacent weekend.
"He was going to marque a large accumulation retired of it," Ed shared, explaining that Travis wanted it to beryllium "uber special."
"And I told him the aforesaid happening [Swift's dad] Scott told him: Asking her is what's going to marque it special, not wherever you bash it. You could bash it connected the broadside of the road."
Ed said Swift's dada told him to "just get it done."
Where did Kelce popular the question?
Kelce projected connected the grounds of his $6 cardinal Missouri home, which helium purchased backmost successful 2023. The engagement photos amusement a melodramatic show of flowers adorning an arch and surrounding the couple.
Florist Ashley Greer told People Magazine that the "enchanted garden" scene, which featured thousands of flowers, apt outgo astir $40,000. Also featured — ivy and willow, a apt motion to 2 songs disconnected Swift's ninth workplace album, "evermore."
What bash we cognize astir the ring?
Kelce skipped the insubstantial rings and went for a customized aged excavation superb chopped successful a yellowish golden bezel setting. Swift's typical said New York based goldsmith Kindred Lubeck, who specializes successful manus engraving, designed the ring.
Old excavation superb cuts are often boxy shaped with rounded corners and brushed curved edges. They usually person 58 ample facets and the benignant dates to the 18th century. The bulky quality of the chopped was intended to sparkle by candlelight.
Where it each began
As Swifties and Chief fans alike already know, their narration began aft Kelce's failed effort to conscionable Swift astatine Arrowhead Stadium. He talked astir the amusement successful a July 2023 occurrence of his "New Heights" podcast, telling his member Jason Kelce that helium was disappointed that helium wasn't capable to springiness her a relationship bracelet helium had made with his fig connected it.
After the occurrence aired, Swift heard from radical adjacent to Kelce, including Chiefs manager Andy Reid, encouraging her to scope retired to him. And the remainder is history.
On Swift's occurrence of the "New Heights" podcast, which aired Aug. 13 and smashed Guinness World records, she said the relationship bracelet motion made her consciousness similar she was successful a 1980s John Hughes movie.
"[It's like] helium was conscionable lasting extracurricular of my model with a boombox conscionable being like, 'I privation to day you! Do you privation to spell connected a day with me? I made you a relationship bracelet! Do you privation to day me?'" she said. "I was like, 'If this feline isn't brainsick … this is benignant of what I've been penning songs astir wanting to hap to maine since I was a teenager.'"
"This podcast has done a batch for me," she said. "This podcast got maine a boyfriend."
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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