The moment has finally happened. Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce are engaged! On Aug 26, the couple dropped a joint Instagram post announcing, “Your English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married 🧨,” and the students — aka Swifties, couldn’t be more excited (or speculative, in classic Swiftie nature). Particularly, fans are wondering about Travis and Taylor’s engagement location — where did it take place, exactly? The photos showcase the newly-engaged couple surrounded by a beautiful, but notably unrecognizable, garden filled with pink and white flowers as well as gorgeous greenery.
The landscape was straight out of a Taylor song, and it has Swifties wondering where exactly the two got engaged — and when. Donna Kelce, Travis’s mom, posted an Instagram carousel just last week with pics from Longwood Botanical Gardens in Chester County, Pennsylvania, which every Swiftie knows is Swift’s home state. And in Donna’s caption, she mentioned visiting the gardens “with family.” Could this have been where Swift became a now-official part of the Kelce family?
Fans didn’t have to wait long to find out. In an interview on Aug. 26, Kelce’s dad, Ed Kelce, shared all the deets Swifties would want to know about the engagement. Ed told News 5 the proposal took place “maybe two weeks, not quite two weeks ago.” He said, “He was going to put it off till this week. I think she was getting maybe a little antsy, but he was going to put her off till this week, to, you know, make some grand thing, to make it a big special event. And I told him repeatedly, you know, you could do it on the side of the road, do it any place that makes it a special event … when you get down on one knee and ask her to marry you.” The moment took place at a garden at Kelce’s home in Lee’s Summit, Missouri.
Some Swifties noticed the similarities in the garden to the one in Swift’s infamous Lover photo shoot, with similar greenery and pink and white roses. While it may not be the same location, its left Swifties wondering whether Kelce was inspired.
Kelce told News 5, “He got her out there, they were about to go out to dinner, and he said, ‘Let’s go out and have a glass of wine’ … they got out there, and that’s when he asked her, and it was beautiful.” The couple did the most normal couple thing after their engagement — they FaceTimed all their family and friends. “They started FaceTiming me and their mother and her folks to make sure everybody knew,” Ed Kelce said. “So, to see them together is great.”
As for when the royal nuptials will take place, that remains to be seen. Most importantly, the pair will share the details that they want to share on their own time. Now it’s time to sit not-so-patiently and wait for the new album — and, of course, the wedding.