Amelia Knox, a moderator for the private Facebook group The Swiftie’s Society, is hoping for a reunion between Swift and guests of The Graham Norton Show who starred in her recent Opalite music video. But very few attendees have confirmed their participation in the nuptials.
“I would just be tickled to have all of them there engaging in some silly goosery,” Knox, who has been a Swiftie since 2005, tells the BBC.
Podcasters and influencers have been dissecting the parade of celebrity friends likely to attend, from longtime friend Selena Gomez, to frequent collaborator Jack Antonoff – but none have confirmed.
Kelce’s sister-in-law and Queer Eye star Antoni Porowski, a friend to the couple, have evaded questions, too. Even BBC Radio 1 host Greg James – who Swift invited personally while promoting her latest album – won’t dish any details. Singer Benson Boone and actress Suki Waterhouse have become some of the few so far to confirm they’ll be going – but haven’t provided any details.
Some fans are curious to see whether her one-time bestie actress Blake Lively, who drew Swift into her legal saga with her It Ends With Us co-star Justin Baldoni, will attend.
It’s also not yet clear if any lucky fans will get an invite, a theory perhaps wrapped in wishful thinking that cropped up due to Swift inviting devout fans to her home in the past.
Others are curious about the bridal party, wondering if Gomez and childhood friend Abigail Anderson Berard, who has been in multiple Swift music videos, will be part.
“We don’t mind the gamification of Taylor Swift, as it were,” says Dani Winchester, an event planner and co-host of the Taylearning podcast. “It can be fun to speculate – what will the dress look like, who might be a bridesmaid, how big will the wedding be?”
The problem is when people forget that Swift is a real person, and not a “video game character”, she says.
As for invitations, some online believe they could go out last-minute, even potentially informing guests on the day of the event, showing the great lengths she might go to to maintain secrecy.
Wedding watchers remain sceptical of what little has surfaced so far but Swift fans, many of whom have developed a deep, one-sided relationship with the artist, plan to continue in vain to make guesses based on what they’ve learned about the singer.
But many told the BBC they are perfectly content to “be fed” after the happy day, when Swift decides to share their wedding with the world.
“We only enter her personal life in ways that she invites us to,” says Victoria Morton, co-founder of TSwift Dance Party Canada, though she admits she and the rest of the collective world are “tremendously excited and waiting on every little detail”.