Taylor Swift’s wedding officiant is Adam Sandler! All about his relationship to her and Travis Kelce
Hollywood icon Adam Sandler has been unveiled as the officiant of Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s wedding at Madison Square Garden.
Signs outside the stadium blared: ‘JUST&T MARRIED!’ at 7:30pm Friday, after 1,000 guests including Bradley Cooper, Gigi Hadid, Karlie Kloss, Steven Spielberg and Ed Sheeran flooded into the venue to watch the singer marry the NFL player.
Swift’s publicist Tree Paine confirmed to the Daily Mail that the vows had been exchanged, sharing that the bride’s brother Austin Swift served as Man of Honor while the groom’s brother Jason Kelce acted as Best Man.
Sandler was described as a ‘friend’ of the newlyweds, who forewent bridesmaids and groomsmen and were both dressed in Christian Dior Haute Couture.
The Click star has known Swift since at least 2023, when he took his daughters Sadie, 20, and Sunny, 17, to the premiere of her Eras Tour concert movie and was able to meet with the pop superstar in person.
Two years later, Kelce had a shirtless cameo in Sandler’s movie Happy Gilmore 2 and the funnyman described the athlete as ‘a great actor and a great human.’
Hollywood icon Adam Sandler has been unveiled as the officiant of Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s wedding at Madison Square Garden
Signs outside the stadium blared: ‘JUST&T MARRIED!’ at 7:30pm Friday, after 1,000 guests including flooded into the venue to watch the singer marry the NFL player
When Sandler and his daughters attended the Eras Tour movie premiere in 2023, they got a hug from Swift herself, in footage obtained by Deadline.
Late last year – when Swift and Kelce were already engaged – Sandler confessed he had been ‘jumpy’ at the idea of meeting her ‘because of what she means to my kids.’
He explained that he was afraid he might ‘blow’ the experience for Sunny and Sadie by ‘talking too loud’ or failing to ‘act as cool as I can.’
Sandler shared that ‘there’s not a word’ of her songs ‘that my kids don’t know,’ adding: ‘I know ’em too, by the way, but they know them inside and out.’
Comparing her to the Beatles, he raved about her music, saying that ‘there’s not a single song you skip’ on her albums, on Conan O’Brien’s podcast Team Coco.
By the time he gave that interview, he had already worked with Kelce on Happy Gilmore 2, the Netflix sequel to his classic 1996 golf comedy Happy Gilmore.
Kelce briefly appears as a high-strung maître d’ who terrorizes and then fires of the main characters, a busboy called Oscar played by Bad Bunny.
Near the end of the movie, Oscar is asked to picture his ‘happy place’ and summons up an image of Kelce’s character tied up and wearing nothing but an apron, with honey smeared all over him and a hungry bear approaching.
While promoting the picture, Sandler revealed his daughters had ‘met Taylor a bunch of times over the years’ and gushed over Swift for having ‘always’ been ‘so damn nice to my family,’ in an interview with Entertainment Tonight.
‘And Travis is such a gentle, nice guy and funny as hell, and he’s like the guys I grew up with,’ added the The Wedding Singer star. ‘When I was with Travis it reminded me of my buddies in high school, and just being able to laugh and say the things you wanna say. And he certainly is a stud. He’s a great actor and a great human.’
Kelce glowingly expressed his own admiration for Sandler in 2024 when rumors first began circulating that he had landed a role in Happy Gilmore 2.
”I didn’t even know there was a job opening for Happy Gilmore 2, but if there is, I’ll be a f***ing extra,’ Kelce said on New Heights, the podcast he hosts with his brother.
‘Anything to just get around Happy Gilmore or an Adam Sandler film or set. Count me in. Obviously been a huge fan of the Sandman,’ he added.
In the hours leading up to Swift and Kelce’s wedding, Sandler reportedly braved the soaring New York temperatures to take in a spot of exercise at a basketball court, then went on a coffee run for his family while they got ready, according to People.
Sandler shares both of his daughters with his wife Jackie Titone, an actress he married in 2003 after meeting her on the set of his film Big Daddy in 1999.
Although they have kept a veil of privacy over their personal life, she has featured in over 20 of his films including Happy Gilmore 2, in which she played a ballet teacher.
