What did you do this weekend? After kissing a lot of frogs – Joe Jonas, Taylor Lautner, John Mayer, Jake Gyllenhaal, Conor Kennedy, Harry Styles, Calvin Harris, Tom Hiddleston, Joe Alwyn, Matty Healy – and writing songs about them, on Friday 3 July (continuing into 4 July, aka America’s 250th birthday) Taylor Swift finally married her prince. Or rather, her tight end. For the millions of fans who have grown up devouring the heartfelt lyrics and tortuous love life of the 14 Grammy-winning billionaire, not only is Travis Kelce – the 36-year-old Kansas City Chiefs player – the man of her dreams, but the man of theirs. Well, if you like heavily bearded men who stand 6ft 5ins tall and have a penchant for wearing Versace.
For Traylor fans, this was the wedding of the century. Forget Dua and Callum, Lauren and Jeff or even Kate and Wills: the nuptials of Taylor and Travis – see, even their names alliterate! – surpassed any celebrity or royal wedding in recent times. Did you know that the wedding cost over $20m? Or that, in anticipation of a backlash, they gave $26m to local charities? And stipulated that they didn’t want any gifts? And that the Empire State Building was lit up as Tay’s “something blue”? Here are a few other things you may have missed.
The Empire State Building is illuminated in blue to mark the wedding of Taylor Swift at the weekend (Photo by Gary Hershorn/Getty)
The venue
In some ways, Madison Square Garden was a fitting choice, an iconic and symbolic New York venue fabled for staging music and sporting events alike. In other ways, it was completely insane. It’s hard to create a feeling of intimacy in a 22,000-capacity venue that stinks of hotdogs, and harder still to organise the necessary labour, staging, lighting, catering and transportation. Everything would have had to be built bespoke and to scale.
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The one easy habit which keeps your
brain young
From adopting a different running route to taking up a new hobby, here are seven ways in which new experiences can dramatically alter your brain health for the better.
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Why we need new experiences
A well-connected brain is more resilient to stress, illness and the effects of ageing.
Neurologist Dr Steve Allder says when we try unfamiliar things, our brain is forced to work in new ways.
Over time, this improves the brain’s ability to adapt to change and respond to challenges, helping us to preserve thinking skills and emotional balance.
Why we need new experiences
They strengthen memory formation
Regularly exposing yourself to new situations – even small ones – helps exercise your memory systems, which improves your ability to store and retrieve information.
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Puzzles like sudoku have now been widely shown not to protect against cognitive decline (Photo: Getty Images)
They improve overall learning ability
Just as muscles adapt to new exercises, the brain adapts to new mental demands. As we age the brain then benefits from regular stimulation and maintains sharpness.
Why we need new experiences
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Boosts dopamine
New experiences naturally stimulate dopamine, which encourages positive behaviour patterns.
Reduce cognitive decline
New experiences activate different brain regions, helping to keep more areas working.
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Problem-solving
Your brain must evaluate options, test ideas and adjust its approach.
The benefits of new experiences
Each time you adapt successfully to something new, your brain learns that change can be handled. This improves emotional flexibility, making it easier to cope with stress and unexpected events.
They also often involve other people, whether through travel or social activities. This stimulate areas of the brain
responsible for communication, empathy and understanding others’ perspectives.
Running might not seem like the most appealing hobby, but if you give it a try, you might be surprised (Photo: EMS-FORSTER-PRODUCTIONS/Getty/Digital Vision/ems-forster-productions)
Your sleep has a huge impact on your heart health
How sleep and your heart
health are linked
Adults who regularly sleep fewer than seven hours are at increased risk of high blood pressure, obesity, heart attack and diabetes.
The risk of coronary artery disease is 45 per cent higher in adults with short sleep durations at night.
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The bedtime habits that reduce risk
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Consistency
Keep daytime naps to less than 20 minutes and aim for seven to eight hours sleep per night.
Wind down
A reasonable 20-30 minute bedtime routine can include reading, light stretching, and meditation.
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Time your exercise
Vigorous exercise within three hours of bedtime can cause insomnia.
The bedroom environment
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Sleeping in a bedroom with bright overhead light has been associated with a higher risk of major cardiovascular events, including heart attack (47 per cent higher risk), stroke (28 per cent) and heart failure.
Darken the room with blackout blinds or an eye mask, avoid blue light and leave your mobile phone outside your bedroom.
The bedtime habits that reduce risk
Food and drink
Alcohol, nicotine, caffeine and large evening meals can all disrupt sleep quality.
One theory is that alcohol and drugs can hijack the brain’s pathways (Photo: Guillermo Spelucin/Getty Images)
Know your numbers
If your blood pressure at bedtime is consistently high, consider discussing medication with your GP.
Beware of snoring
Sleep-disordered breathing is linked with cardiovascular conditions, so it could be time for a GP evaluation.
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HEALTH
Reflecting on the early signs of dementia
Three families reflect on the early signs of the illness, which affected their parents.
They include the things they missed or dismissed, what they’d do differently and what they’d want other people in the same position to know.
Robert and his mother Joyce
She fell for a scam
Robert’s mother Joyce spent her last six years in a care home
One of the first incidents that rang alarm bells for Robert was his mum falling victim to a suspected scam from someone selling mattresses door-to-door.
She also started to struggle with cooking and making her special dishes she’d been making for decades without a problem.
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Did he tell his mother?
We [had] just sort of played along with everything. But on one particularly bad day, I blurted it out over the phone, ‘Because you’ve got dementia, mum!’ She threatened to kill herself, which was very scary. Maybe it’s something I should have explained properly to her from the get-go.
JOYCE WAS DIAGNOSED WITH ALZHEIMER’S IN HER EARLY SEVENTIES
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Rosie became a carer
in her early thirties
I think we missed some of the really early subtle signs.
Rosie’s mother was diagnosed with Young Onset Alzheimer’s Disease at 58 but some symptoms, like brain fog, were put down to the menopause.
She had become more forgetful, and was repeating herself, but as she had always “been scatty” it was dismissed.
She became fixated
It was on strange things like going to the same buffet.
Chloe was just 14 when her mum, Sarah, was diagnosed with young onset frontotemporal dementia, a rare form of the disease.
Another time Sarah, who was diagnosed in her forties, forgot how to boil an egg.
On Saturdays, when she’d usually go shopping, she’d go out and come straight back home, almost like she was forgetting
what she was going out for.
Unused or unwanted subscriptions cost consumers £1.6bn.
Writer Sadhbh O’Sullivan looked into her own forgotten subscriptions when she became a first-time buyer, and realised how much she was wasting on things she wasn’t using.
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The hidden spends that go unnoticed
I’d long considered myself to be quite a reasonable spender.
But the hidden costs across her bank accounts, like free trials that hadn’t been cancelled and memberships for abandoned services, proved otherwise.
It was full of small amounts, £2.99 here, £4.50 there. These small amounts added up.
The ghost subscriptions
Sadhbh isn’t alone.
19%
According to a Nationwide survey almost one in five Brits don’t use every platform they pay for.
The bank suggests they could save as much as £400 a year by ditching them.
4.7 million
National Trading Standards’ 2025 research found 4.7 million people were paying for subscriptions they didn’t know they’d signed up for.
In 2024, a government report found unused and unwanted subscriptions cost consumers up to £1.6bn a year.
How to deal with the subscriptions
Hunt them down
Banking apps usually list your ‘subscriptions’ separately from direct debits and standing orders so you can easily spot what you’re shelling out on.
Pensioners have some flexibility over the timing and payment of their state pension
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Edge will give customers cashback on debit card and direct debit spending
Check everything
You can be debited through credit cards, E-payment services, your mobile phone bill, Apple Pay or Google Pay.
How to deal with subscriptions
Dating apps have failed the black community, says Amber (Photo: Morsa Images/Getty)
Be honest
Don’t vow to use a subscription you’re not going to, even if you
have good intentions.
Look over 13 months
Many businesses have changed from monthly to annual payments so look further back.
Changes are due to kick in on everything from inheritance tax to filling in self-assessment forms (Photo: Getty).
Customers struggling with debts are highly likely to be in vulnerable circumstances, regulators warn
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Future proof
Make sure to track any subscriptions you have kept so you can cancel them, if need be, in future.
Don’t be afraid of phone calls
If companies don’t let you cancel online, don’t fear the customer service line.
With TV and broadband, call the new customer number as it’s often answered more quickly.
If you’re happy with the service, but not the price, speak to a real person that may offer a better deal.
Look for a phone number and press the ‘thinking of leaving us’ option. It’s usually a fast track to a team with authority to offer bigger discounts.
Donations to charity have increased dramatically
But staff say many people treat their shops like a tip.
Here they share the most useful donations they get, and the
ones that drive them mad.
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People won’t buy the current donations
The quality of donations over the last year has diminished.
Claire Stockman, head of retail for St
Luke’s Hospice [pictured], says many donations include used items from fast fashion like Boohoo and Primark, which they cannot sell for more than £2, if at all.
What the workers see
60%
of what comes into St Luke’s Hospice is unsellable, Stockman says.
She adds its soiled, damaged beyond
repair or smelly.
Vinted
Harriet, a volunteer at Crisis in Dalston,
says people bring in clothes that are dirty and stained – things that they cannot sell
on Vinted.
She also sees dirty kitchenware and technology that no longer works.
It’s not all bad
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Harriet says they still get their
fair share of designer items.
She’s seen a pair of Louboutins
sell for around £400.
People will buy high-end items
even if they’re a little worn.
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The best donations
There was a box donated after someone’s family had passed and in it were all these medals. I researched them and the whole collection ended up going for £2,340…
JANE THURNELL-READ, VOLUNTEER AT
THE OXFAM GENERAL SHOP IN EXETER
What is a good donation?
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A good donation is anything new with tags on, anything that hasn’t been opened, or higher quality items.
Items that have been well looked after are more likely to sell and generate a better price for charity too.
Harriet adds that knick-knacks and wine glasses are surprise hits in her branch.
The feeling of dread that the weekend is over is all too familiar.
Here, psychologists, career consultants and sleep experts give their best advice on how
to beat the gloom that the
work week is looming…
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How to beat the Sunday scaries
Pave the way on Friday
Psychologist Maria-Teresa Daher-Cusack says to wrap up tasks and not to leave big or difficult things for Monday. And write a to-do list for the next week so you know what to expect when you return after the weekend.
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Working from home is being blamed by some councils for the rise in fraudulent ‘polygamous’ working (Photo: Moment RF/Getty)
Get outside early
Doctor Naheed Ali says getting out on a Sunday morning – not sleeping late – helps regulate the circadian rhythm that can become skewed over the weekend.
How to avoid Sunday scaries
On Sunday spend time away from technology to allow yourself a personal reset away from doom scrolling.
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Rebrand your Sunday evenings from a daunting time to relaxing. Career consultant Victoria McLean goes out for dinner or reads something unrelated to work.
She also doesn’t check her inbox on a Sunday night as it can begin the dread.
How to beat the Sunday scaries
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Sleep well
Put yourself in the best position to rest by avoiding large meals, screens and caffeine.
Structure your week
If possible don’t stack your Mondays with high-pressure tasks.
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Find the fun daily
Don’t just save joyful things for the weekend. On lunch breaks, try to do something you enjoy.
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Sometimes, you
need to listen.
If the Sunday scaries are constant, listen to them. If every Sunday fills you with dread and nothing seems to quell it it’s worth asking if it’s the job, the culture or the career itself. No one should spend half their weekend bracing for impact… ” says Victoria McLean
The UK has one of the most stable electricity grids in the world.
But no country’s energy system is 100 per cent secure and large-scale blackouts, although rare, are possible.
Here’s how to prepare, and what could happen, if we do have a blackout.
The immediate effects
If the UK’s power went down tomorrow, these are the ways it is likely to impact you first.
You’d get stuck in lifts, wherever you are in the lift shaft.
Trains would be stopped as the signals depend on electricity.
Traffic lights would stop working on the roads – leading to congestion or crashes.
Contactless payments are likely to fail.
Your Wi-Fi at home would stop working and communication becomes difficult.
Fridges and freezers will turn off – unless you have a standalone generator – and food will spoil over time.
Hospitals and water treatment works have their own backup generators so will keep going until their supply runs out.
How transport would be affected
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For EV owners that are already on the road, Professor Keith Bell, who works in electricity planning, recommends that those with an EV with reasonable charge use it as a generator, like your own store of electricity.
In the case of the power system going down, petrol isn’t a totally safe option as queues at petrol stations could be huge and places are likely to run out of fuel.
The longer term effects
The longer the power takes to return the worse things are likely to get. In 2021 Storm Arwen physically damaged power lines across the UK.
Without nuclear to take the strain, that exposure to gas is costing us dear (Photo: Catherine Falls Commercial/Getty)
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During the 1977 New York blackout, which lasted 25 hours, there was civil unrest, resulting in widespread looting and arson, although intense heatwaves are thought to have exacerbated the situation.
Things to buy now to prepare
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Battery radio
To get updates during a power cut – a car radio can be used, but in severe weather it might be safer to stay inside.
Bottled water
A minimum of 2.5-3 litres of drinking water per person per day is recommended.
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A Cuban rides his bike during a nation wide blackout in Havana on 21 March (Photo: Yamil Lage/AFP/Getty)
Wind-up torch
The Government recommends opting for torches over candles, for safety reasons.
How to prepare
A blackout is unlikely but we should make small changes.
If possible, don’t let your petrol tank run down to almost empty. Keep it over half full so you’re never caught short.
Always have a portable power bank, and spare batteries, to charge your phone and other essentials.
As card machines could fail, keep some cash at home.
To keep yourself distracted and entertained, keep board games and a pack of cards handy to play.
Eight easy ways to stop
your child spending summer glued to their devices
Not all screen time is bad
Using screens in a way that benefits your child’s development is key and balancing educational content and entertainment with offline activities ensures a well-rounded routine.
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How to keep your kids off screens
Outdoor activities
For younger children, try scavenger hunts, garden games and nature walks. For older ones, hikes
and biking trips.
Create a schedule
Designated screen-free times helps children develop a routine that balances screen use with other activities.
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Family game nights
It’s an excellent way
to bond and develop critical thinking skills.
How to keep your kids off screens
Creative hobbies
Getting creative, through drawing, painting or model construction, enhances cognitive skills and offers an alternative to screens.
Social interaction
Arrange playdates or group activities with friends, or for older kids try an overnight camping trip in the garden.
How to keep your kids off screens
Lead by example
Showing that you value offline time encourages your children to do the same.
Have a reward
Implement a reward system where screen time is earned through positive behaviour.
Open conversations
Discuss the importance of balancing screen time with your children so they understand the reasons behind the rules.
Which it was. Whether fans will ever get to witness the ceremony in all its fever dream technicolour glory is unclear. Yet rumours persist that the reason for all the cloak-and-dagger secrecy is because Taylor had signed an exclusive deal with Vogue. I’m kidding. Leave that to other mortals: word is the couple have inked a deal with Disney+ to release an entire documentary about the event. For why just settle for a magazine?
Security might have been British Royal Family levels of excessive and expensive, but details have still inevitably leaked, thanks to a heady mix of guest indiscretion and grainy footage that may or may not have been deliberately released to pique interest.
The couple allegedly transformed MSG into “an enchanted garden of towering trees, emerald drapery and soaring archways”, according to one report, with bridges, islands and gardens-within-gardens mentioned, too. It all sounds very Wizard of Oz. After the service, guests “passed through magic doors” behind the altar to a “dreamlike room” and danced until 4am. Guests’ phones were confiscated, while several MSG employees have allegedly been fired for violating the terms of their non-disclosure agreements.
Screens outside Madison Square Garden confirm the marriage (Photo: Carlos Barria/Reuters)
The ceremony
Obviously, we’ll have to wait until the secret documentary that may or may not be directed by Steven Spielberg (yes, he was there) drops to know the full details. But we do know that the ceremony was officiated by Adam Sandler. We also know that Stevie Nicks and Paul McCartney performed, with the esteemed Beatle singing the band’s 1964 hit “I want to hold your hand”. At some point there was a karaoke session led by Sabrina Carpenter, Jennifer Lopez, Kesha and Avril Lavigne.
And there’s more. According to an indiscreet and hastily deleted post by AMC Theatres CEO Adam Aron that I fortunately screengrabbed, we know that (and I quote) “everything – floors, walls, ceiling – was draped in peach and white. Large blown-up pictures of Taylor and Travis at each age, from one to teenagehood, were on display.” It’s also been reported that the couple walked down a raised, stage-like aisle to a string arrangement of Love Story. After a speech in which Taylor recalled wondering whether love would ever happen to her, there wasn’t a dry eye in the house.
Travis Kelce and Swift pictured last month. In her speech Swift revealed she had wondered if love would ever happen to her (Photo: Bruce Glikas/WireImage)
“The vows were long, entertaining, personal, charming, emotional, irreverent and endearing explorations by each as to how they met, [and] why they want to be with each other for all eternity,” Aron continued. “Rings were exchanged. A sweep-you-off-your-feet kiss. What was clear above all else was their profound love. This is no small love.” If he ever wants to quit theatre management, bro would make a fine romantic novelist.
The guests
However lavish the venue or moving the ceremony, it’s the guests who really make a wedding. Traylor said “I do” surrounded by family, lifelong friends (including childhood bestie Abigail Anderson), her agent Tree Paine and a random assortment of celebrities, some more random than others. While Selena Gomez, Gigi Hadid, Lena Dunham, Gracie Abrams, Camila Cabello, Reese Witherspoon, Emma Stone, Jessica Alba, Dakota Johnson and Ed Sheeran were bound to be there as longtime members of her inner circle, the attendance of Hugh Grant, Jamie and Jools Oliver and Greg James was on nobody’s bingo card. (Grant and Swift developed an unlikely friendship after he attended her Eras tour with his son, and thanked her on X – and she responded to say she was a “long time Hugh Grant stan”. She has known Oliver since they appeared together on Stand Up to Cancer’s Bake It Off event in 2014.)
Who knew Taylor had such a deep and meaningful relationship with Cindy Crawford, Brad Pitt and Zoë Kravitz? Would Harry Styles – Taylor’s ex and Zoë’s current boyfriend – also have gone if he hadn’t been playing the final gig of his 12 night sellout show at Wembley? Or did he arrange said dates specifically to avoid having to attend at all?
Tom Hanks and Paul McCartney leaving the wedding (Photo: Bing Guan/Reuters)
Clearly, Tay wasn’t joking when she told Graham Norton that she was planning to invite “anyone I’ve ever talked to”. Anyone, that is, apart from Blake Lively. Despite the guest list stretching to a generous 1,000, her former bestie was NFI, after a long and complicated fall-out over Blake’s court case against actor Justin Baldoni.
The fashion
And the bride wore… Dior. Don’t be fooled by the pouffy white dress papped spilling out of a garment bag as it was wheeled across the street into MSG: that was a decoy. At the time of writing, even Vogue has scant details on the gown, simply reporting that after mulling over “sketches from myriad designers”, she and longtime stylist Joseph Cassell enlisted Jonathan Anderson to design her custom Dior dress, “completing the look with Cartier jewellery and custom Christian Louboutin shoes”. Kelce is also reported to have worn a white Dior suit.
The guests’ wardrobe choices are less clandestine. After some snatched pap shots of A-listers in cars that gave away nothing, by Saturday evening fans were treated to a bevy of guests’ Instagram selfies, which presumably had been signed off. Selena Gomez wore a beaded gold Oscar de la Renta gown. Gigi Hadid wore a corseted pink one (bonus points that it was by Tay’s favourite designer, Wiederhoeft). Jessica Alba wore black and gold sequin Prada. Elizabeth Banks wore vintage blue silk Versace. Zoë Kravitz wore lacy Saint Laurent.
But the most talked-about look (other than Ed Sheeran’s sky-blue suit) was Karlie Kloss, whose strapless gold silk Tove gown had Gaylor (Taylor’s lesbian fanbase) going into meltdown. I’d need a thesis-length word count to explain the significance of gold among that portion of the fandom that believes Tay and Karlie’s close friendship (and subsequent falling out) was not merely platonic, so let’s just say that the dress was coded. As for the dress code itself, we’re not sure. Showgirl? Sequins? High-school prom (Taylor’s Version)?
Karlie Kloss. left, and Joshua Kushner (younger brother of Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared) on their way to Swift’s wedding (Photo: TheStewartofNY/GC Image)
The food and drink
Does anyone care about the food? Did anyone eat it? Well, yes. Much like a Chiefs v Rams game, this was a wedding of two halves. Those on GLP1s were thoughtfully catered to with high-protein fare like lobster, turkey and steamed chicken, while the baseball bros (and other eaters) got to feast on Krispy Kreme donuts, french fries, onion rings, cheeseburgers, peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, blackened chicken and steak. It’s thought that some food was provided by Sartiano’s, a Calabrian restaurant that’s one of Tay’s favourites. Later that evening, a catering company passed boxes of leftover desserts to waiting fans.
Drinks-wise, guests were well lubricated. The T&T monogram was everywhere, apparently, including on the cocktail menu, which featured three custom drinks: The English Teacher (gin, elderflower, lavender syrup and lemon), The Gym Teacher (tequila, mezcal, angostura bitters and agave) and a spicy T&T Tequila. Although let’s also give a shout-out to Garage Beer, which Travis co-owns with his brother Jason. When asked how many kegs would be present, Trav reportedly replied: “Man, I can’t even count that high”. We’re sure he’s being modest.
The memes
“JUST&T MARRIED” screamed the billboards outside MSG on Friday afternoon, a spectacle made to go viral. Which it duly did, The White House’s official social media account leading the way by altering the digital billboard sign to read “Trump is your President”. As if anyone could forget. There were also numerous memes in which enterprising entrepreneurs had used Photoshop to depict their own wares being trucked into MSG. “Taylor and Travis buying my lacquered bamboo furniture is a dream come true!” joked one. And then there were the Spurned Blake memes, too numerous to mention.
While Tay and Trav were the stars of the day, no event this big and this anticipated could go by without others emerging. Step forward, Chief Beaudette of the New York Police Department, whose shouting of Taylor’s song titles into a megaphone (“I knew you were trouble”, etc) had fans opining that he deserved an invitation to the wedding.