ALBAWABA - Zohran Mamdani addressed questions surrounding Taylor Swift wedding permit costs.
Zohran Mamdani is setting the record straight about Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce's lavish wedding at Madison Square Garden. On Friday, July 10, the New York Mayor informed reporters that the superstar had spent six figures to secure a city permit to close streets surrounding the Midtown venue.
“Taylor Swift has paid already the cost of the permit that was lodged, which was over $160,000 for that event and for the response to that event,” Mamdani said at a consumer protection press conference. "That was a permit that was finalized, I think, just [in] the days before the event itself," he said. His remark was in response to a reporter's question: "Could you also confirm that Taylor Swift will be paying the city back any and all money for police overtime, and if so, how much and to whom?"
This update comes about a week after Swift and Kelce's big day, which saw numerous Midtown streets closed to the public on a major US holiday, prompting several New Yorkers to criticize the celebrity couple and their timing. Rep. Nicole Malliotakis, a Republican from New York, was among the detractors. "Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce should reimburse the NYPD for the 130 officers required per day to keep their multimillion-dollar, thousand-person wedding at MSG secure. Our officers are already working overtime for 4th of July festivities & NYC taxpayers should NOT be on the hook,” she wrote on X.
Well, it turns out they did. Days before their nuptials, the couple also notably donated a generous gift of $26 million across 20 charities in the U.S.
No official numbers on the total cost of the wedding have come out as details from the day of the nuptials remain few and far between. But luxury wedding and event planner Lindsay Landman told Rolling Stone that the final price tag could be somewhere within the range of $20 to $25 million.
