We’re getting a royal wedding: Taylor Swift is engaged

We’re getting a royal wedding, Pennsylvania.

Berks County’s most famous local — Taylor Alison Swift — is engaged to Jason Kelce’s brother.

Swift announced the engagement Tuesday afternoon with an Instagram post that quickly sent her fandom into shambles.

The post features Swift and her boyfriend of two years, Travis Kelce of the Kansas City Chiefs, perched lovingly in a flower garden.

“Your English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married,” Swift captioned the post, which garnered more than a million likes in less than 10 minutes. It was soundtracked by the pop star’s song “So High School,” which was said to be inspired by her relationship.

It’s a rare glimpse into Swift’s personal life amid a media campaign for her forthcoming 12th album, The Life of a Showgirl. Swift announced that album on the Kelce brothers’ podcast, New Heights, earlier this month.

New Heights chimed in on the engagement announcement, dubbing it “new news” and extending congratulations on social media.

Fans had been hoping the couple would get engaged since January 2024, when Philadelphia-based jeweler Steven Singer offered to gift Travis Kelce a 7½-carat emerald-cut diamond ring should he have wanted to get down on one knee in the near future.

Singer told The Inquirer that he was immediately bombarded with calls and texts Tuesday afternoon asking one question: Did he design the ring?

The answer is no.

TMZ reported that Swift’s engagement ring was designed by Kindred Lubeck, a New York City-based designer whose hand-engraved rings can run up to $33,000.

“There’s one guy in the United States who’s very, very happy right now, and that’s Travis Kelce, and there’s one guy who is very, very sad, and that’s Steven Singer,” he said.

Singer estimates that Swift’s engagement ring would retail for between $1.5 million and $2 million.

Ever the opportunist, Singer offered to make the couple’s wedding bands and donate the value to a charity of their choosing.

It’s no secret the Swiftie fan base is a passionate bunch. In turn, the engagement news in the middle of a work/school day sent productivity to a screeching halt for many. It also sparked a wave of reaction posts and memes.

Anna Needle thought the notification was simply the announcement of a new vinyl variant for The Life of a Showgirl. Then she read the caption: That’s so funny, she’s so right, the 24-year-old Conshohocken resident thought.

Then the reactions started pouring in — from friends and family — acting as if Needle, herself, was soon to be wed. There are a lot of Swifties at her remote job training to be an insurance underwriter, so she started blasting off Microsoft Teams messages.

“My one coworker and I are freaking out,” Needle said. “So, definitely limited productivity after seeing the post.”

Missy Perez, the resident Swiftie in the Philadelphia Phillies marketing department, was in a small meeting when she got an urgent text.

“I legitimately felt myself tear up and was like, ‘Oh, my God, I need to get a life. Why am I parasocially tearing up over somebody I don’t know?’” she said. “But I’m just so happy for her.”

The power couple’s engagement has long been rumored, but Needle said she was shocked to see Swift announce it. During her 2017 reputation era and her relationship with actor Joe Alwyn, Swift kept her personal life out of the limelight. She has changed her tune with Kelce, showing off their life together full-throttle in Instagram posts and game-day cameos.

Fans were quick on social media to point to Swift’s song “The Prophecy” from The Tortured Poets Department — an album released on the heels of her public splits from Alwyn and the 1975’s Matty Healy. In the vulnerable ballad, Swift begs to change her destiny, bartering money or her stardom for “someone who wants my company.”

In her podcasting debut, Swift said Kelce’s pursuit of her “is sort of what I’ve been writing songs about wanting to happen to me since I was a teenager.”

“It’s just a really beautiful thing, as a lifelong fan, watching Taylor Swift sing about love and ideal love and everything that she wants,” Needle said, “and then it finally works out for her. I just think it’s beautiful.”

The mega-news also hit the White House. At a cabinet meeting, President Donald Trump called Kelce “a great player” and Swift “a terrific person” — a change in tune from his past comments on the singer. “I wish them a lot of luck.”

It’s been a big year for Swift, who wrapped up her colossal “Eras Tour,” bought back her masters, announced her forthcoming album, and is now engaged.

Fans are also convinced Swift will headline Super Bowl 60 in February. Only time — and maybe another viral Instagram post — will tell.

Staff writers Beatrice Forman and Maggie Prosser contributed to this article.