San Francisco 49ers tight end George Kittle has one clear request for the upcoming wedding of NFL legend Travis Kelce and pop icon Taylor Swift. He does not want the celebration to run out of beer.
Speaking with Us Weekly alongside his wife, Claire Kittle, at the 2026 NFL Draft on April 23, Kittle pointed to a past wedding mishap as the reason. When his teammate Christian McCaffrey married Olivia Culpo in June 2024, the beer supply ran low.
He said, “That was a tough one. I had to provide most of the beer that night.” Looking ahead to Kelce and Swift’s expected summer wedding, Kittle said he does not expect the same issue to arise. “I think Travis will be pretty prepared.”
San Francisco 49ers star George Kittle is hoping Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift's wedding isn't a repeat of what happened at his teammate Christian McCaffey's ceremony. https://t.co/tQVv6aYuMg
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“I think they’ll have plenty,” George added. “It’s a great time that I’m looking forward to.” Kelce and Swift are expected to marry in July 2026 before Kelce begins his 14th NFL season with the Kansas City Chiefs.
George Kittle And Claire Kittle Reflect On Their Own Low-Key Wedding
As the discussion turned to weddings, George Kittle and his wife Claire reflected on their own smaller celebrations. “We actually got married in a jewelry store in Iowa City on a Wednesday in 2019,” Claire said.
She added, “I went to Dillard’s and bought a one-piece jumpsuit. There were family and friends who owned the jewelry store that we went to. It was literally just our family.”
The couple later held a second ceremony in 2021 with about 30 guests at their home. “We had a 30-person wedding at our house,” George said.
He added, “We didn’t have to pay for the venue. My only thing I wanted was a root beer float for a dessert. I wanted that, and I wanted a fun dance floor. So, we had a checkered dance floor. It was my groomsmen and their spouses, and then her bridesmaids and their spouses. That was our entire wedding. It was pretty easy.”
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Kittle and Claire, who met at the University of Iowa and got engaged in 2018, also described financial changes early in his NFL career. After being drafted in 2017, they moved from Iowa to California, where living costs increased significantly.
“We went from paying 500 dollars in rent in Iowa to going to Silicon Valley paying 5,000 (dollars) for a three-bedroom apartment that we split, him and I and two of his teammates, because we couldn’t afford anything else,” Claire explained.
Kittle later signed a five-year, $75 million contract in August 2020 and a four-year, $76.4 million extension in April 2025, with $40 million guaranteed, as his financial situation evolved.
