Mariska Hargitay has witnessed multiple magical events at Madison Square Garden this year, and a couple of them have involved Taylor Swift. Of course, the actress and singer cheered on their Knicks during their run that ended with an NBA championship. On top of that, Hargitay got to enter The Garden again to witness Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s wedding. Now, she’s giving us a front-row seat to her “favorite” part of the high-profile ceremony.
A word that people keep using to describe Swift and Kelce’s wedding is “intimate,” and that’s something Hargitay complimented too. While it was stacked with A-listers and required very secretive invitations, the Law & Order: SVU star and long-time friend of Swift explained that it felt tight-knit and personal during her appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live:
I am still floating from that wedding. It was so spectacular and so intimate. I have to say, I am blown away because when there’s a wedding with that many guests, you think like, ‘Oh, OK, it’s going to be that,’ and it just wasn’t.
This statement from the actress who plays Olivia Benson (the character Swift named one of her cats after) goes along with other comments we’ve gotten about this event. Despite it being a wedding between a pop star and Super Bowl champ that was held at MSG, it’s been widely noted that the event was very personal and thoughtful.
The couple’s vows also helped highlight that point, and that was actually Hargitay’s favorite part of the ceremony, as she stated:
And I even say that the vows were my favorite part of the whole wedding. It was that magical.
It’s been reported that Swift and Kelce’s vows were making “300-lb men from the football business” cry. During The Compound and Friend podcast, CEO of American Century Investments, Jonathan Thomas, explained that he was “crying” throughout the vows too, and recalled that Kelce’s speech was “vulnerable,” while Swift’s was “poetic.” Both of their speeches were about 30 minutes.
Based on all that information, I totally see why the vows were Hargitay’s favorite part of the ceremony. Plus, to have the speeches complemented by Adam Sandler officiating the ceremony is the cherry on top. I mean, Conan O’Brien called the comedian’s officiating “perfection.” So, it really sounds like the whole ceremony was, as the actress said, “magical.”
Now, considering Hargitay and Swift are friends and fans of each other, I’m hopeful she’ll divulge a few more details about the wedding at some point. However, what she gave us was marvelous, and now I can’t stop smiling about the fact that right after the SVU star sat courtside in MSG with the singer to watch the Knicks’ historic run, she then got to go back and witness another unforgettable moment in the iconic New York City venue.
