Only 30 'missing' guests
Katherine Coy traveled from Atlanta to be near Madison Square Garden for Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce's wedding. Credit: Newsday/Dandan Zou
With the guest list for the evening purported to be 1,000, only 30 were unaccounted for, a staffer said as the arrivals line of cars slowed down. These guests were either not coming, being late or hadn't been scanned into the event. Travis Kelce is already one of the most reliable pass-catching tight ends in NFL history, with a catch rate north of 70%, but even that number pales in comparison to the success rate of his and Swift's wedding attendance.
Traffic lanes on Seventh Avenue have since reopened and the crowd of onlookers has thinned out. The mood remains festive among those here.
Katherine Coy, 51, wanted to be near a place of joy this holiday weekend. And to this Swiftie, that place was MSG Friday.
"Life is stressful and politics are stressful," the married mother of three said. "I just thought this would be exciting and I really wanted to be a part of it."
So Coy traveled from Atlanta to New York and joined a crowd of fans Friday, donning a white veil that had flashing lights of color in it for the occasion. Coy said the crowd outside MSG was smaller than she expected. "I'm hoping later this evening there'll be some more fans," she said. "There will be some singing."
Dandan Zou covers education for Newsday. Previously, she worked for a community newspaper in Maryland and a personal finance magazine in Washington, D.C.
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