Taylor Swift Reveals Exactly How Travis Kelce Proposed

Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce are officially engaged. Swift and Kelce made the announcement on Instagram on Aug. 26, sharing photos from the proposal. “Your English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married,” they captioned the post, adding Swift’s song “So High School” (which is about her romance with Kelce). For the milestone, the couple was in a rose garden, surrounded by flowers. They shared five photos from the proposal, including a close-up of the stunning diamond ring and a photo of Kelce kneeling.

Now, Swift is sharing some sweet details about the milestone moment. During an Oct. 3 episode of The Graham Norton Show, she shared the behind-the-scenes details of the photos and opened up about the exactly Kelce popped the question. “He really crushed it when it came to surprising me because we had actually filmed a podcast episode … for about three or four hours, and meanwhile, behind his house, he was having the whole back garden turned into this,” she explained.

“And one of the things that he put in there very strategically was a wall of hedges that weren’t there before, and inside the hedges was my tour photographer, hiding in bushes that had not previously been there,” she added. “He went all out. 10 out of 10.”

Fans already knew a little bit about the proposal from Ed Kelce. In an Aug. 26 interview with News 5 Cleveland, Ed revealed the timeline for the proposal. "Travis actually did the proposal, oh, maybe two weeks, not quite two weeks ago," he told the outlet. Apparently, Ed knew it was going to happen “months ago.”

It sounds like Swift knew it was coming, too. “He was going to put it off ‘til this week. I think she was getting maybe a little antsy, but he was going to put her off ‘til this week to make some grand thing [happen], to make it a big special event,” Ed continued. “I told him repeatedly, ‘You could do it on the side of the road. Do it any place. That makes it a special event ... when you get down on one knee and ask her to marry you.’” According to Ed, Swift’s dad gave Travis similar advice.

Ed added that the proposal took place in Lee's Summit, Missouri. “He got her out there, they were about to go out to dinner, and he said, ‘Let's go out and have a glass of wine,’” Ed revealed. “That's when he asked her, and it was beautiful.”

After Swift said “yes,” they FaceTimed their families to give them the update. “They started FaceTiming me and their mother and her folks to make sure everybody knew. So, to see them together is great,” Ed added.

The couple started dating in 2023 after Kelce discussed his crush on Swift on his New Heights podcast. Over the past two years, they have not shared too many details about their romance. However, in an Aug. 13 episode of the Kelce brothers’ podcast, Swift did open up about how their relationship began.

“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 on the show. “I was like, if this guy isn't crazy, which is a big if, this is sort of what I've been writing songs about wanting to happen to me since I was a teenager.”

During the episode, Kelce also opened up about his first impressions of Swift after seeing her perform on the Eras Tour and then meeting her. “She blew me away. I had never experienced something so mesmerizing on stage and then so real and so beautiful in person,” he said. “I get you in a room, and it’s like I’ve known you forever. It was like the easiest conversation I ever had. It was so much fun that it just knocked my socks off.”

“I give the Eras Tour credit because if I had never went to that show ... I would have never went on [the podcast] and told everybody how butt hurt I was,” he continued. “I'd never just been so engulfed in the curiosity of who you were.”

Congrats to the happy couple!