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The Booming Industry Keeping Taylor Swift's Wedding a Secret

7/2/202621 min

Celebrities and ultrawealthy people are spending millions on advanced military-style tactics to keep their weddings private, including security, fake-out venues, airtight NDAs and secret tunnels. WSJ’s Chavie Lieber takes us inside the growing wedding security industrial complex as rumors circulate around the wedding of Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce at historic Madison Square Garden. Jessica Mendoza hosts.

Further Listening:

- The Taylor Swift Ticketmaster Debacle

- Taylor Swift’s Push to Change Music Ownership

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Clips

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Drones, Detectors, Burner Hunts
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‘Plebeian’ Venue Shopping

Transcript preview

First 90 seconds

  1. Jessica Mendoza· Host0:00

    [upbeat music] This Fourth of July weekend, journalists across the country are waiting for the answer to a major cultural question.

  2. Speaker 2· Soundbite0:12

    Pulled out a ring and said, "Marry me, Juliet."

  3. Jessica Mendoza· Host0:16

    Is Taylor Swift's love story entering a new era?

  4. Speaker 30:19

    [upbeat music] Let's talk about the wedding nobody can stop talking about. Is it happening this weekend at Madison Square Garden?

  5. Chavie Lieber· Guest0:28

    I mean, it has consumed my algorithm.

  6. Jessica Mendoza· Host0:31

    That's our colleague, Havi Liber.

  7. Chavie Lieber· Guest0:34

    The Swifties, and the numerologists, and the astrologists, I mean, people have pretty much lost their minds over all the speculation about this date. So Taylor and Travis are definitely getting married this weekend.

  8. Speaker 2· Soundbite0:46

    I mean, why would you get married on a Mars-Uranus conjunction? Well- First off, I think it's totally a smokescreen.

  9. Speaker 5· Soundbite0:51

    Like, this doesn't sound very Taylor.

  10. Jessica Mendoza· Host0:53

    This Madison Square Garden wedding, A, yes, it's tacky. No shade. Even the mayor of New York City hinted something about it.

  11. Speaker 6· Soundbite1:00

    Coincides with July 4th, America 250, Taylor Swift's wedding all happening at the same time, and- And even though the US is celebrating 250 years of independence, we still have American royalty, and Havi is our resident expert on this privileged population.

  12. Chavie Lieber· Guest1:18

    Celebrities, influencers, hot people, I think those are our American royalty [laughs] today.

  13. Jessica Mendoza· Host1:24

    Hot people.

  14. Chavie Lieber· Guest1:25

    [laughs] I'm, look, I'm just being real.

  15. Jessica Mendoza· Host1:27

    I love that. For this potentially

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