Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce are engaged to be married, the singer confirmed via an Instagram post Tuesday featuring a carousel of photos of the two canoodling in a garden, a very large diamond on Swift’s ring finger. This, friends, is no paper ring.
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“Your English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married,” Swift, who wore a striped Polo Ralph Lauren sundress in the photos, wrote in the caption. Kelce wore a cableknit sweater, also by Polo Ralph Lauren.
The couple have been dating publicly for nearly two years. Their debut, when Swift showed up in a VIP box at a Kansas City Chiefs game on September 24, 2023 to cheer Kelce on, was Jumbotron-worthy. After the football player’s team won, the pair literally rode off into the sunset in a convertible after weeks of rumors that they were dating. In the months following (with a side of seemingly ranch), the couple’s profiles only got bigger: Swift continued on her globe-spanning Eras Tour, and Kelce and the Chiefs went all the way to a Super Bowl win, with both parties literally cheering each other on along the way. Swift became a fixture at Kansas City’s Arrowhead Stadium when her tour dates permitted, and managed a wild feat of time zone management and air travel to make it to Las Vegas from Japan in time to watch the Chiefs take the W in the big game and provide victory smooches and go to karaoke after. For his part, Kelce trotted to multiple continents including South America, Australia, Asia, Europe (a bunch of times, including an on-stage cameo), and, of course, home sweet North America.
It makes sense that Kelce would keep that streak of Eras tour appearances going: It was an important part of their origin story. He saw Swift perform in his adopted hometown of Kansas City in July 2023 and tried to shoot his shot with his then-crush by delivering a beaded friendship bracelet with his phone number on it. It didn’t work, he moaned on an episode of New Heights, the podcast he co-hosts with brother Jason Kelce, saying, “She doesn’t meet anybody, or at least, she didn’t want to meet me, so I took it personal. But it was an unbelievable show.” That got Swift’s attention, evidently. As she revealed in an interview with TIME, “This all started when Travis very adorably put me on blast on his podcast, which I thought was metal as hell.”
“We actually had a significant amount of time that no one knew, which I’m grateful for, because we got to get to know each other,” she said. “By the time I went to that first game, we were a couple.”
