“Star Wars” actor Marc Hamill opens up about why he didn’t come Taylor Swift And Travis KelceThe wedding of stars. On July 3, the couple exchanged vows at Madison Square Garden in New York. Although more than a thousand guests were in attendance, Hamill revealed why he didn’t attend the lavish event.
In August 2025, Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce announced their engagement with a photo of them posing in a flower garden. Hamill used this photo to explain why he didn’t attend their wedding, as guests weren’t allowed to bring their phones to the event and Swift has yet to post highlights from her big day.
“Congratulations to the newlyweds! » he wrote in the caption of his Instagram post. “I refused to attend the wedding for various personal reasons, but mainly because I wasn’t invited.” He ended his caption with a church emoji.
Fans React to Mark Hamill’s Wedding Invitation Denial
It remains to be seen how well Mark Hamill actually knew the couple in order to receive an invite, but that didn’t stop fans from defending him in the comments.
“They invited a thousand people and not Mark Hamill. Mark, you would be on my guest list before 99% of my family,” one comment read. It received over 10,000 likes in just three hours.
“I wasn’t invited either; it’s not a big deal anyway. If I ever get married, I’ll invite you and the rest of the Star Wars cast and crew and we can blast music from Mos Eisley Cantina and drink Blue Milk!” » joked another follower.
“I bet you could have used your Jedi mind tricks to get into the wedding ceremony,” said a third user while another follower joked: “I guess the Fourth wasn’t with you on this one.”
Taylor Swift talks about her stunning engagement
Weeks after the couple’s engagement, the “Mirrorball” singer opened up about the surprise proposal on an October 2025 episode of “The Graham Norton Show.”
“We had actually filmed a podcast episode – he has a podcast called New heights – so we filmed the podcast for about three or four hours… and during that time, behind his house, he was turning the whole garden into this,” she explained at the time.
“And one of the things he placed in there, very strategically, was a wall of hedges that hadn’t been there before. And inside the hedges was my tour photographer hiding in some bushes that hadn’t been there before,” she continued, adding, “He pulled out all the stops – 10 out of 10.”
Shortly after going public with their engagement announcement, Travis Kelce’s father Ed opened up about the proposal during an interview with News 5’s John Kosich on August 26, 2025.
“He took her out, they were about to go to dinner, and he said, ‘Let’s go out and have a glass of wine’… they went out, and that’s when he asked her, and it was beautiful,” he said at the time. The couple then FaceTimed their family to confirm the happy news following the proposal.
The “So High School” singer announced their engagement in a joint Instagram post, captioned: “Your English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married.” »
As The Blast previously reported, Donna Kelcethe mother of both Jason Kelce and Travis Kelce, called the wedding “magical” when asked about it while attending Macy’s 50th 4th of July celebration.
“I really can’t say much, except it was magical, man, magical,” she said in an interview posted to Macy’s Instagram on Sunday, July 5.
She also spoke about her own Fourth of July memories with her sons, recalling, “I remember taking the boys to Lake Erie and we watched the fireworks in Euclid, Ohio, and we had a great time. »
