The Wedding of the Century: Taylor Swift & Travis Kelce's "mixed marriage"

This past week, Americans weren't just celebrating a very big birthday. The country was also focused on the world's biggest pop star and a three-time Super Bowl champion. Mo Rocca takes a look at the tale of Taylor and Travis. Call it the wedding, Taylor's version. A celebration at the most famous arena in the media capital of the world, with a roster of celebrities to rival the Met Gala. And the kind of press attention normally reserved for a superpower summit. But at its core, a love story. Starring Taylor Swift, the world's biggest pop star, and football player and three-time Super Bowl champ, Travis Kelsey. Do you think they're suited to each other? Very suited. It's scary how suited they are to each other. And they enjoy how different they are. When they got engaged, and her announcement was, your English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married. Which is really funny. Rolling Stone writer and author and self-described Swiftie Rob Sheffield has been covering Taylor Swift for close to 20 years. What is the Taylor Swift song for this personal milestone? It's Love Story. We were both young when I first saw you I closed my eyes and the flashback starts A song she wrote as a teenager about Romeo and Juliet. Where she rewrote the ending. Yes. With the wonderful arrogance of a teenage poet, she thought, yes, Romeo and Juliet, good story, but it needs a different ending. That's a song that represents her teenage romanticism that she, against all odds, has never outgrown. Over the past two decades, the 36-year-old has sold 100 million albums. Her era's concert tour grossed more than $2 billion. At this point, she's breaking her own records. But one theme has persisted from the start. Very few songwriters have written about marriage as consistently as she has without having been married before. The relationship started three years ago in a very public way. With the Kansas City Chiefs tight end declaring his intentions on the podcast, Travis co-hosts with his brother, Jason Kelsey. I didn't get to hand her one of the bracelets I made for her. You made her a bracelet? Yeah. The couple recounted those early days last year on the same podcast. I made you a friendship bracelet, do you want to date me? Just come outside and meet me. Just meet me once. Just give me a chance. I was like, if this guy isn't crazy, which is a big if, this is sort of what I've been writing songs about wanting to happen to me since I was a teenager. There probably weren't a lot of people who were fans of both Taylor Swift and Travis Kelsey. In a lot of American families, including mine, there were the conversations where one faction of the family had to explain to another who this Travis Kelsey person was or who this Taylor Swift person was. In that sense, it's a mixed marriage. Yes, and yet they've made it work because they have very similar personalities, very similar values, and because he is willing to embrace the role of Mr. Taylor Swift in public in a way that's totally new for her. This isn't the first time titans from the worlds of entertainment and sports have tied the knot. Former baseball star Joe DiMaggio wed screen star Marilyn Monroe. In 1954, Marilyn Monroe and baseball legend Joe DiMaggio by then retired from the New York Yankees, wed in San Francisco. The marriage lasted a mere nine months. Taylor's is very different to the relationship that Marilyn had with Joe DiMaggio. Michelle Morgan is the author of nine books about Marilyn Monroe. Travis seems to be very, very supportive of Taylor's career, and Joe DiMaggio, on the other hand, he wasn't particularly supportive of Marilyn's career, and he thought that she, once they got married, that she would give it all up and stay at home and become mother to his children and make his dinner, and that didn't happen. While the couple were visiting Japan, Monroe was asked to entertain American troops in South Korea. And afterwards she said to Joe, Joe, you've never heard such cheering in your life, and he said, yes, I have. And at that point, I think things started to turn for them because it wasn't really very supportive of him to do that. They had a very private wedding, and the only detail that the press could find out at the time was that when they went on their honeymoon, he specifically requested a room with the color television, leading all red-blooded boys of my dad's generation to wonder why a guy spending his honeymoon with Marilyn Monroe would want to watch television. That's not the case with Taylor and Travis. Yes! Two people more than comfortable being on TV. Thank you so, so much for having me, you guys. Rob Sheffield says this is a fairytale ending not just for the newlyweds, but also for their millions of fans. For her to finally have this kind of over-the-top celebration of a true love relationship is something that I think a lot of people are vicariously very happy about. From the very beginning, people loved this boyfriend. People loved that she had this suitor who was willing to pursue her and is now very happy to be Taylor Swift's husband in the public eye. That's what any fan would have wanted for her, would have wished for her.