The proud friends of Travis Kelce have been celebrating a wedding like no other after he married Taylor Swift – albeit against a backdrop of tension in his friendship group.
Ross Travis, who once played for Kansas City Chiefs as a tight end – the same position as Kelce – shared multiple pictures on Saturday of Kelce’s friends from Cleveland preparing to head to Madison Square Garden for Friday’s ceremony.
Travis stood out from the crowd in a burgundy suit, while the majority of Kelce’s other friends opted for black or navy blue and looking equally as sharp.
‘A night to remember with all the people you love,’ Travis captioned one post, while another slate of pictures he shared on Instagram was titled: ‘What a night!’
Kelce also had his friend Vince Garcia, his barber when he is on the west coast, travel to the Big Apple for the wedding.
Garcia shared a mirror selfie in his suit and wrote: ‘Congrats T&T’. Chandler Parsons, the former NBA player who is now one of Kelce’s golf buddies, was also there with his wife, Haylee.
Travis Kelce’s friends pose for pictures together before his wedding to Taylor Swift at MSG
Kelce’s barber (left) flew over from LA for the big day while Sarah Blackburn-King and Kelce’s friend Reggie King looked glamorous for the MSG ceremony
Ex-NBA player Chandler Parsons, who often golfs with Kelce, stunned with his wife Haylee
She shared an array of snaps from before the couple entered Madison Square Garden, where guests were reportedly asked to hand over their phones to help protect privacy on the power couple’s big day.
Trent McDuffie, Kelce’s former Kansas City Chiefs teammate who was traded to the Los Angeles Rams earlier this year, made it to the big day with his fiancée, Gabby Esposito.
‘The best night celebrating a beautiful love story, congrats T&T,’ she wrote on Instagram.
McDuffie himself would have welcomed the chance for a reunion with most – but pointedly, not all – of his former Chiefs teammates at MSG.
One Chiefs star missing from the big day was controversial kicker Harrison Butker who was not in attendance, with an NFL source claiming to the Daily Mail that it was because he was not invited to begin with.
The popular NFL analyst Rich Eisen was there for Kelce’s big day and, without naming names, confirmed that not every Chiefs player was there.
Responding to a comment on his Instagram post claiming Kelce only invited ‘a handful’ of his Chiefs teammates, Eisen replied: ‘Beyond false. Most Chiefs were there.’
He added of the guests: ‘Both sides of the ball and coaching staff and front office and FORMER teammates of Travis Kelce.’
Kelce’s former Chiefs teammate Trent McDuffie poses alongside fiancee Gabby Esposito
Travis and Taylor confirmed they were officially married on the screens outside of MSG
Kelce and Swift welcomed around 1,000 guests to MSG to celebrate their marriage
The celebratory posts come amid some unrest behind the scenes with Kelce’s friends before the big day.
As Daily Mail reported on Thursday before the hugely anticipated rehearsal dinner that Kelce and Swift hosted at MSG, some of Kelce’s friends were a bit unhappy at the differing levels of their involvement.
But the morning after the night before, it seemed everyone was grateful to be among the 1,000 guests who were handed an invite.
When they officially became husband and wife in a ceremony officiated by Adam Sandler, the screens outside MSG announced: ‘JUST&T MARRIED’.
The happy couple, as of early Sunday evening, have not spoken out on their big day just yet.
