Taylor Swift And Travis Kelce Face Environmental Backlash Over Wedding Decoration Scandal

Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce faces backlash over lavish wedding waste© Instagram/ @killatrav

Eleven trailer trucks rolled into New York carrying an entire forest. Months later, that forest is reportedly ash. The Daily Mail says Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce's team had every custom decoration from their July 3 Madison Square Garden wedding destroyed, out of fear that someone would steal the pieces and sell them to fans. Brad Pitt and Selena Gomez were among the guests, yet the leftovers now get the attention. Online anger is growing. The one source who knows about the fire says they cannot say where it burned.

Where did the Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce wedding decorations go?

The Daily Mail reports that the pieces were trucked to Pennsylvania and incinerated. Staff were told the items would be burned. The source, though, could not name the site.

Think about what was lost. A workshop on the US west coast spent months building the set. It had a greenhouse about 10.7 meters tall, walls styled after the Roman Colosseum and fabrics printed with woodland scenes. Every piece was made to order, and the total cost reportedly ran into the millions.

More than 1,000 guests walked through that world, including Dakota Johnson and Ed Sheeran. When the last dance ended, logistics crews packed everything up and carried it out.

The paper also published design renderings on October 26 that show what never happened. A two-tiered carousel was cut because it would have cost around $7 million. A man-made lake under the altar was dropped over safety and technical demands.

Why are people angry about the Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce wedding burn?

Social media filled up fast. Many users pointed to the environmental damage of burning that much material. Others read the decision as a way to make sure no fan could ever own a piece of the day.

Nobody has shown that the props would have ended up on an auction site. The theft fear comes from a single unnamed person talking to a tabloid. Swift and Kelce have not responded to the report, and no representative has confirmed or denied the burn.

So the facts are thin. Eleven trucks went in. A source says everything was incinerated in Pennsylvania. Nobody has said which facility did the work, who signed off on it, or whether any of the pieces were saved.