The Opulence of Taylor Swift

This whole Taylor Swift Wedding-Thing has me utterly confused.

At first, I was wondering why, at the beginning of the week, word was leaking out that Taylor Swift was getting married at Madison Square Garden. Either she was getting married there, or she wasn't. I mean, there had to be rental fees and permits and such.

Around Wednesday, I think it was the NYPD, confirmed that they were asked to work an event at Madison Square Garden, but I don't believe they acknowledged it was specifically the Swift Wedding.

This is what spun me around. If you're going to have an event with 20,000 people, logistics come into play. How in the hell are 20,000 people keeping secrets? There has to be ticket sales and parking. At minimum, Ticketmaster has to be involved.

And that's where I was wrong.

There were no tickets. It was an "intimate gathering of Taylor and Travis' closest friends." There was a large contingency of NFL players rubbing shoulders with Taylor's famous friends, but the number wasn't 20,000, it was around a thousand. Apparently you can rent Madison Square Garden for around a million dollars.

"A thousand people?" I thought to myself. "Then why did they need MSG?"

A hundred years ago, I went to my High School Prom at the Encore Event Center in Strongsville, Ohio. My graduating class numbered around 550 and I would estimate that there was, at minimum, 500 kids there. But because it was so long ago, I looked it up on the internet. Encore can seat over 2,000 people, 1,100 people in the Grand Ballroom alone.

Now I'm not an idiot, I'm not saying Taylor Swift should have gotten married in Strongsville, Ohio. But I am saying that every major metropolitan area in the United States has a large event center, church, or convention center that could house a thousand person wedding.

Swift, who grew up an hour outside of Philadelphia, and spent her formative years just outside of Nashville, could have legitimately had hundreds of venues to choose from that could have hosted a large, fairytale wedding.

I googled: High End Wedding Venues in Nashville that could accommodate a thousand people. Near the top of the search was The Fontanel in Nashville:

The Fontanel Estate and Mansion is an iconic wedding and event venue. It is the former home of country music legend Barbara Mandrell.

Wow, that Fontanel place seems really nice.... and expensive, even the website is elegant. If I was the proud parent of a musical superstar, with roots in country music, I would have thought that the Fontanel would have been the perfect place for a Wedding.

But honestly, our last couple of articles at Beacon of Speech were about soccer and Vladimir Putin, so I asked my wife what I was missing.

She replied, "you don't get it, it's her "me" moment.

What the hell is a "me" moment? She has a billion f@cking dollars, every moment is her "me" moment.

She continued, "it's not about your dream, her parents' dream, or any sort of homage to country music, it's about fulfilling her dream. You're a guy, you don't get it."

That's right I don't get it.

If you want privacy, you rent The Fontanel and keep it on the down low.

If you want share the moment with the public, like Lady Di and Prince Charles, you rent Madison Square Garden.

You don't rent Madison Square Garden, then make everyone involved sign non-disclosure agreements, including your guests and MSG staff.

My wife looked at me and was like "what's your problem. Why can't you just be happy for Taylor Swift?"

It is a contradiction

"Oh, you and your contradictions."

If any other billionaire had done this-

At Madison Square Garden-

On July 4th Weekend-

On the 250th Anniversary of America-

They would be lambasted for flaunting their Rich Privilege.

Jeff Bezos marries Lauren Sanchez and it's tacky, hijacking Venice for the whims of the rich.

Taylor Swift does it in New York City and it's a beautiful dream come true.

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