And the only evidence that the maid of honor is you-know-who is the paparazzi who have gathered at the bottom of the hill, hoping to snag a photo with their long lenses.
To be clear: I’m not saying the people in this church aren’t aware that Scott and Andrea’s kid turned into, you know, Taylor Freakin’ Swift-it’s hilarious to watch the flower girls try to keep it together, and the nuns seem pretty jazzed, too-but that’s not the story today. No, that maid of honor, currently fussing over and straightening out the train of the bride’s gown, is Taylor-Scott and Andrea Swift’s older kid, Austin’s big sister, who grew up barely a five-minute drive away and used to go for ice cream at the Friendly’s down the street. To them, Swift is not the superstar who, a handful of days ago, stood on a stage in Los Angeles and accepted a Grammy Award for Album of the Year, the first woman to win that prize twice. Many of the wedding guests have known her for just as long. When you come back, you snap into that strange nostalgia.”Īnd the church! There are nuns here at Sacred Heart Chapel who taught Swift in kindergarten. “When you’re a little kid, you’re riding the same roads to school every single day, hundreds of times. “It’s such a surreal, emotional thing,” Swift says. During a car ride earlier in the day, she excitedly pointed out landmarks: the creek where she and Britany used to play as kids a weathered tree house in the front yard of the former Maack family home the piney woods she and her friends used to think were haunted. Returning to the place where you grew up can be a bit of a mind-bender for anyone, and Swift is no different. Swift hasn’t been to Reading in more than a decade she was fourteen when she moved with her family to Nashville, on her way to becoming a celebrated country singer-songwriter and later blossoming into one of the biggest pop acts in music history. Taylor Swift talks Googling herself, which celebrity’s closet she’d raid, and the bravest thing she’s ever done: Swift has even known the groom, Benjamin LaManna, since kindergarten-she admits to having had a little crush on Ben way back then, when he was “that kid who sat next to me in class with the bowl cut and the Lego lunch box.” Last spring, after Swift accepted Britany’s invitation to be maid of honor via Instagram-kids today!-she took Maack to Reem Acra, where Britany got fitted for her custom hand-embroidered silk-taffeta wedding gown and Taylor for the blush-pink, cap-sleeved chiffon maid-of-honor dress that she has on today (the fitting was also Instagrammed, naturally). Swift and Maack have known each other since Swift was ten days old and have stayed close-there are grainy home videos of the two romping around a crib together and, more recently, photos of them sitting side by side at the 2014 Grammys.
She is the maid of honor at the wedding of her childhood friend Britany Maack. She also has two awesome cats.Īnd yet today, in this chapel atop a hill in Reading, Pennsylvania, Swift is none of those things. At 26, Swift is world famous, wealthy, critically celebrated, a style influencer, and a cultural movement unto herself, recognizable everywhere she goes. Swift’s 2015 stare-down of Apple-she declined to put her hit album 1989 on Apple’s nascent streaming-music service when the company said it would not pay artists during its initial launch Apple changed its policy immediately and paid everyone-was a seismic example of a single artist’s toppling corporate might. Even if you have only casual knowledge of Swift’s music-there may be six or seven souls left on the planet who can’t sing all the words to “Shake It Off”-you’re aware that Swift has become not only one of the most successful recording artists ever, but also an unrivaled power broker who has prevailed in a volatile media economy and brought today’s music overlords to heel. Vetements dress and boots.īY NOW YOU KNOW that the past few years have been extraordinary ones in the life of Taylor Swift. At the Grammys this year, Swift became the first woman in history to win Album of the Year twice.
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