Taylor Swift’s Westerly, RI house
Get a look at Taylor Swift’s house from several views along the coast of Rhode Island
Over the years, Taylor Swift has used her Rhode Island mansion as the site of various lavish parties for her celebrity friends, especially her famous Fourth of July bashes. Now, “Holiday House” may host the biggest celebrity wedding in years.
Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce have chosen the popstar’s oceanside estate in Watch Hill as their wedding venue, according to Realtor.com columnist Kelsi Karruli. Purchased in 2013 for $17.75 million, the 11,000-square-foot mansion has seven bedrooms and nine bathrooms, undergoing significant renovations earlier this year.
Neither Swift nor Kelce have confirmed their wedding venue yet.
What other celebrities have been married in Rhode Island?
As Gov. Dan McKee said on X just after the pair announced their engagement “Rhode Island has some of the best wedding venues in the world, just saying.”
Two of the biggest weddings to take place in Rhode Island were Jennifer Lawrence and Cooke Maroney in a 2019 ceremony in Newport, and then-Massachusetts Sen. John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Bouvier in September 1953.
More recently, Rhode Island model and influencer Olivia Culpo and NFL star Christian McCaffrey tied the knot at Ocean House, which is within sight of Swift’s Rhode Island house.
When did Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce announce their engagement?
On Tuesday, Aug. 26, Swift announced her engagement to Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce on Instagram.
“Your English teacher and gym teacher are getting married,” the superstar captioned a series of photos of the newly engaged couple in a rose garden, reportedly in the backyard of Kelce’s Kansas City home.
Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce relationship timeline
Swift began dating Kelce in 2023, after the football player attended the Eras Tour concert in Kansas City on July 8 that year. Kelce afterwards admitted on a “New Heights” podcast episode that he wanted to gift Swift a friendship bracelet with his phone number on it, but he failed to meet her at the concert.
After months of speculation, Swift made their relationship official by appearing at the Chiefs game on Sept. 24, 2023, during which she sat with his mom, Donna Kelce. The pair have been steadily dating since then, with Swift attending various Chiefs games and Kelce attending various concerts during the Eras Tour.
Will Travis Kelce move to Rhode Island?
While no move has been confirmed yet, the engagement suggests that Kelce will certainly be spending more time at his future wife’s house in the Ocean State. The football star previously visited the Watch Hill mansion to celebrate the birthday of Swift’s longtime friend Blake Lively in August of 2024.
However, earlier this month, the couple was spotted house hunting in the eastern suburbs of Cleveland, Ohio, where Kelce is from, suggesting they may be looking to move to the Midwest.