Taylor Swift is finally giving fans a glimpse into one of the biggest moments of her life, the evening Travis Kelce got down on one knee. During her recent chat with Jimmy Fallon, the pop superstar opened up about the events leading up to the proposal and what made her realise something special was about to happen.
In fact, Taylor said it all started like any normal evening, until she got a couple of subtle signs that made her stop and think. What exactly tipped her off?
Taylor Swift’s Ring That Had Everyone Talking
While on her ‘The Life of a Showgirl‘ press tour, Taylor made a stop at ‘The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon‘. And there, she didn’t shy away from showing off her dazzling engagement ring. As expected, the crowd leaped in excitement as Fallon brought it up, and Taylor revealed how much thought Travis had put into the design.
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Proudly, she said, “He did [put a lot of work into it]. He did.” The ring features an old mine-cut diamond, custom-made by jeweller Kindred Lubeck of Artifex Fine Jewelry. Who can not fall in love with that? Even after weeks of wearing it, Taylor admitted she still can’t stop staring at it. She laughed, “I look at it constantly, it doesn’t feel in any way normal for me. I’m just like, oh man, whoa!“
As she told Fallon, what makes it special is knowing “this is the person I get to hang out with every day forever.” While she was clearly overwhelmed talking about the ring, she soon started talking about how the actual proposal unfolded, and the lengths Travis went to in order to keep it a surprise.
Hardly able to control her laughter, Taylor revealed that Travis used his New Heights podcast as a distraction. On that particular day, Taylor said, she noticed something odd. All the windows in the house were covered with blackout drapes. It wasn’t typical podcast protocol, but she brushed it off.
Still, something about Travis’s behaviour was different. Taylor recalled that he seemed unusually nervous, pacing around and mentioning that his heart was racing. The surprising thing is that she had never seen him like this before. Now, though, she can’t help but laugh about it as he was just trying to hide how anxious he was about the big moment ahead.
The Moment Everything Clicked
Once the recording wrapped, Travis suggested they take a quiet walk in the backyard and enjoy a glass of wine. Now, that was a pretty normal thing for the couple. But as Taylor stepped outside, everything started to make sense: the draped windows, his nerves, the secrecy. That’s when she realised what was happening.
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Next, what came was a beautiful surprise as Travis had transformed the backyard into a private garden for the proposal. Taylor, who was already having a hard time putting the moment in words, managed to say, “It was the best possible-case scenario.”
In the days following the big reveal, Taylor has spoken a lot about Travis in several interviews. The best one, she said, was while appearing on Sirius XM’s Morning Mash Up. “As soon as you meet him, you know he’s the best,” she said, describing him as “one of one.”
As for what’s next, the wedding isn’t her top priority just yet. Taylor laughed off questions about planning, saying she’s focused on the present. But whenever these two plan to tie the knot, we know it’s going to be equally magical like the proposal.
