Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s engagement could have kicked off a serious earthquake in the actual world this week, but it surely hasn’t put severe seismic exercise into the lives of the spouses-to-be: They have been noticed out Thursday night time in a luxurious field catching — look ahead to it — a school soccer sport, the place Swift took her new engagement ring out for a check drive.
It was the primary sport of the 2025-26 NCAA season for the hometown College of Cincinnati Bearcats, the Kelce brothers’ alma mater, who misplaced to the College of Nebraska–Lincoln’s Cornhuskers by a subject purpose at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas Metropolis, Mo. The bros (Jason was there too) have been rooting for the Bearcats, clearly, with Travis rocking a street-art emblazoned Cincinnati cap and his older sibling sported a extra conventional faculty typeface on his chapeau.
Swift rocked a denim miniskirt, in response to Individuals, with a white sweater, white boots, inexperienced nails and, oh sure, that large engagement ring. The Previous Mine Minimize diamond ring was designed by Travis Kelce and New York Metropolis-based jewellery designer Kindred Lubeck, in response to myriad media studies.
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Whereas consultants who talked to Individuals put the scale of the stone at between 5 and 10 carats and guesstimated its worth as wherever from $125,000 to $5 million — which is sort of the vary — people who talked to Web page Six mentioned it doubtless got here with a $1-million price ticket. Principally, no one is aware of the worth of a custom-made, vintage-style ring with a one-of-a-kind hand-etched diamond that’s presently sitting on the ring finger of a world pop star. Go determine.
“It’s my engraved pieces that put me on the digital map,” Lubeck instructed VoyageJacksonville in 2024. “I started making reels showcasing my work and people started noticing. Eventually, I started getting requests for me to make engagement rings.”
The Neptune Seaside, Fla., native has described herself as a goldsmith specializing in hand engraving who bought began working half time together with her jeweler dad in her hometown throughout the pandemic lockdown.
“Basically, I take very small, sharp instruments and cut away bits of metal, usually on the sides of rings, into a particular design,” she mentioned. “People just go crazy for it when I post it online.”
No kidding: On Friday, Lubeck seemed to be bought out of each big-ticket ring she had been providing on her web site, although a handful of sub-$20,000 designs have been nonetheless in inventory. (Swifties, the place you at? A bunch of them may be had for lower than $5,000! And so they’re not even “distressed.”)
The Grammy-winning “Love Story” pop icon and the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs tight finish introduced the start of their engagement period on Tuesday in a joint Instagram publish.
“Your English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married,” Swift captioned pictures from the backyard engagement, which truly occurred a few weeks earlier.
He added with a contented shrug, “I don’t know how much I’m supposed to say, but I don’t care!”
However Vice President JD Vance undoubtedly cares — in regards to the results this pairing might need on the NFL this season.
“I will say as a football fan — as a Cincinnati Bengals fan — I hope that the NFL does not put a thumb on the scale for the Kansas City Chiefs just because Travis Kelce is now getting married to maybe the most famous woman in the world,” the veep instructed USA Right now this week.
“You guys can’t sort of have this, ‘I’m worried they’re going to have a Super Bowl wedding’ thing this season. Can’t do it. The Kansas City Chiefs have to follow the same rules as everybody else.”
So within the case that the NFL’s “deep state” turns romantic and favors the Chiefs on this pigskin-tinted love story, Vance is urging followers to be able to act.
“I think all football fans should be willing to push back on the NFL,” he mentioned, “and say, ‘Look, you guys got to be fair.’”
Truthful sufficient.
Occasions workers author Alexandra Del Rosario contributed to this report.
