Ladies and gentlemen, will you please stand? Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce are engaged to be married, the couple announced Tuesday in a joint Instagram post.
“Your English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married,” read a caption on the photos of Kelce, tight end for the Kansas City Chiefs, kneeling on one knee before the Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter in a garden full of flowers.
Swift is sporting a massive diamond in the carousel of images, and it’s no paper ring. Scott Friedman, master gemologist appraiser at the International Gemological Institute, told HuffPost that the engagement ring “appears to be an elongated cushion modified brilliant cut, weighing approximately 10-15 carats, set in a custom-made antique-inspired 18k yellow gold ring.”
Kelce worked with Artifex Fine Jewelry to design the ring, Vogue reported.
The ring likely costs anywhere from $125,000 to $175,000, estimated Jared Jewelers’ vice president of merchandising, Ann Grimmett.
Benjamin Khordipour of Estate Diamond Jewelry put his estimate much higher, at $550,000, according to Brides.com.
Swift and Kelce, both 35, have been publicly dating since 2023 after the football player expressed romantic interest in her during an episode of the “New Heights” podcast he hosts with his brother, former NFL player Jason Kelce.
“I owe a lot to this podcast. This podcast got me a boyfriend ever since Travis decided to use it as his personal dating app about two years ago,” she said while appearing on the show earlier this month to announce her 12th studio album, “The Life of a Showgirl.”
Their meet-cute “is sort of what I’ve been writing songs about wanting to happen to me since I was a teenager,” Swift joked.
“I’m the luckiest man in the world,” Kelce said on the episode, referring to his relationship with Swift.
Swift described Kelce and their relationship in a series of metaphors that wouldn’t be out of place in one of her songs.
“He’s like a human exclamation point, like when you take a picture on your phone and you click the enhance color button,” she said on the episode.
“This kind of felt more like I was in an ’80s John Hughes movie, and he was standing outside my window with a boom box like, ‘I wanna date you, do you wanna go on a date with me? I made you a friendship bracelet,’” she said of Kelce’s thwarted attempt to meet her at one of her Eras Tour shows, where he’d hoped to give her a friendship bracelet with his phone number on it.
Swift shared the engagement post to her Instagram story with her song “So High School” attached. The deep cut from her 2024 album, “The Tortured Poets Department,” has been widely speculated to be about Kelce.