Adam Sandler officiating Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s star-studded wedding felt a bit unbelievable to the lucky 1,000 in attendance.
“Adam Sandler … got here down [the aisle], everybody laughed and thought it was a joke at first,” American Century Investments CEO Jonathan Thomas said on the Thursday, July 17, episode of “The Compound” podcast. “He probably spoke for 20 or half-hour, vacillated between funny, very sincere [and] sang just a few things.”
Swift and Kelce, each 36, said “I do” on July 3 inside Recent York City’s famed Madison Square Garden arena surrounded by a number of the biggest names in sports and Hollywood.
After their enchanted garden-themed nuptials, Swift’s rep revealed in a press release that the couple’s friend Sandler, 59, presided over the ceremony.
“In your typical vows the officiator says, ‘For wealthy or for poor.’ Adam said, ‘You’re not going to must worry about that,’” Thomas recalled on Thursday, referring to Swift’s billionaire status and Kelce’s multimillion-dollar NFL salary. “His key message was [to] kiss one another day-after-day, within the morning, at night [and] after dinner.”
Along with Sandler’s heartfelt-yet-humorous speech, the now-newlyweds spoke for just as long delivering their vows.
Travis Kelce and Adam Sandler on the set of ‘Completely happy Gilmore 2.’ Scott Yamano/Netflix
“Travis went first together with his vows. He probably spoke for half-hour and I don’t wish to violate his privacy, but I used to be crying, which I used to be attempting to hold back,” Thomas recalled. “He made himself unbelievably vulnerable. I used to be sitting there crying, and I used to be attempting to hold it back until I go searching and there’s all these 300-pound men from the football business crying, as well. So, I felt really comfortable [to] let go. I mean, it was very, very powerful.”
Thomas further revealed that the Grammy winner also wrote her own vows in the course of the ceremony.
“She probably spoke for half-hour, and it was poetic. It was very well done,” he gushed. “The vows and the ceremony were very solemn, very sincere, very emotional. Then, they opened up [the venue and] you walk through this massive castle that they built.”
Thomas, for his part, was especially in awe of how Swift and Kelce transformed MSG into their dream wedding venue.
“You’ll never guess you’re in Madison Square Garden the way in which they did. It was incredible,” the businessman said on Thursday. “But you [walked] through this castle that they built and behind it, um, they’d all varieties of games [and] amazing giveaways to people.”
Swift and Kelce have yet to disclose any photos from the large day but are expected to eventually share portraits via Instagram.