Multiple people on Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s wedding guest list were convinced their invitations were spam at first glance.
Swift and Kelce tied the knot at Madison Square Garden in New York City on July 3, 2026. They were joined by 1,000 of their loved ones. Adam Sandler served as the ceremony’s officiant while Taylor and Travis’ brothers, Austin Swift and Jason Kelce, had the roles of Man of Honor and Best Man, respectively.
The star-studded guest list included Selena Gomez, Jessica Alba, Ciara, Kelsea Ballerini, Miranda Lambert, Maren Morris and more. Since the event, many who attended — and some who ended up not going — confessed that the invites they received were not real.
Keep scrolling to see who mistook their invites for spam:
Producer Garret ‘Jacknife’ Lee
Jacknife’s wife, Melissa Garner Lee, revealed that her husband — who has worked with Taylor on multiple tracks including “The Last Time” — accidentally deleted their wedding invitation because he thought it was spam.
“I got a text but I thought it was spam,” Jacknife told his wife after the wedding took place according to a piece she wrote for the Huffington Post published in July 2026.
Melissa recalled feeling flabbergasted following her husband’s admission. Jacknife explained that he previously told her he received a text from Taylor’s manager but the message didn’t seem authentic.
“It was probably an assistant!” she told him adding, “So let me get this straight: You mean to tell me that we were invited … and you didn’t click on the invite?”
Melissa shared that her husband then asked her why she wanted to go to Taylor and Travis’ wedding.
“Hope for love! Hope for some good in the world! I don’t know … maybe hope in America at a dark time?” she recalled. “And I obviously would have loved to hear the musical guests. I mean… Stevie Nicks was supposed to play!”
Jacknife ended up apologizing to his wife and added that the weather was “really hot” that day. In Melissa’s piece, she apologized to Taylor and Travis for not RSVPing no to their wedding because of her husband’s mistake.
Greg James
The BBC 1 radio host admitted that he received a digital invite back in March during the “middle of the night” and RSVPed yes electronically. When James and wife Bella Mackie were flying to New York City, the idea it could have been a scam crossed their minds.
“We thought we may have made a big trip here for nothing,” he admitted to listeners during a July broadcast. “I wasn’t sure until we got there. … There was a huge part of us that was … like, ‘This could not be real. This could be a scam.’”
James and Mackie’s worries were proven wrong when they attended the festivities at MSG.
Maren Morris
Morris revealed she also got a text message telling her she was invited to Taylor and Travis’ wedding.
“I got this, like, spam text a couple weeks ago. It was like, ‘You’re invited to Taylor and Travis’ wedding,’” she recalled during a May 2026 appearance on SiriusXM’s The Morning Mash Up.
“The Middle” singer recalled an unknown number trying to call her after the text and she realized it was most likely spam.
“I was like, ‘I’m blocking this,’ ‘cause there’s no way they would send an invitation through a text like this,” she recalled. “What if I trashed [the actual one]? I was like, ‘How do they have my number? This is weird.’”
Morris did end up going to the wedding.
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