Nobody is shaking this off: Pop superstar Taylor Swift and Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce announced their engagement on Instagram on Tuesday, and the likes exploded like pyrotechnics at a concert.
“Your English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married,” Swift and Kelce wrote on an Instagram post showing multiple photos of the proposal. In the first photo, Kelce is kneeling in front of Swift in a breathtaking floral garden. The second photo shows them standing and holding one another. The next is her hand with an enormous diamond engagement ring, followed by two more of the couple embracing.
Taylor Swift’s style of engagement ring was the most popular cut during the Georgian and Victorian eras.
Old mine refers to a historic diamond cut popular from the early 18th century to the late 19th century. Such diamonds are square with rounded corners and have 58 facets, making them anything but a “paper ring.”
The Post delved into everything else Swift had on, including her cognac-colored Louis Vuitton sandals, diamond-studded Cartier Santos Demoiselle watch and her “TNT” friendship bracelet by Wove, which was a Christmas gift from her new fiancé.
To no one’s shock, the $400 dress Swift is wearing is selling out fast. Just imagine the excitement when the wedding details start trickling out, and Swift begins to “pick out a white dress,” as Juliet does in Swift’s hit song Love Story.
Memeing the marriage proposal
Until we have more information about the upcoming wedding, fans will have to content themselves by creating and sharing memes because, well, it’s 2025, and that’s part of how we communicate these days.
The Instagram account belonging to the Prince and Princess of Wales even liked the post. (No surprise, really, they hung out when Swift played London.)
Even coffee giant Starbucks got into the act, making a joke about pumpkin spice lattes and posting, “Are we supposed to keep posting about PSL like nothing happened?” The company also noted in the post’s comments that “the long list of Starbucks lovers just got a +1.” (“Starbucks lovers” is a sly reference to a lyric in Swift’s 2014 song Blank Space. Swift actually sings, “got a long list of ex-lovers,” but almost anyone with working ears mishears it as something like, “all the lonely Starbucks lovers.”
