“Star Wars” actor Mark Hamill is opening up about why he didn’t attend Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s star-studded wedding. On July 3, the couple exchanged vows at Madison Square Garden in New York City. Although over one thousand guests were in attendance, Hamill revealed why he did not attend the lavish event.
In August 2025, Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce announced their engagement with a photo of them posing in a floral garden. Hamill used that photo when he explained why he didn’t attend their wedding, as guests were not allowed to bring their phones into the event and Swift has yet to publish any highlights from her big day.
“Congratulations to the newlyweds!” he wrote in the caption of his Instagram post. “I declined to attend the wedding for a variety of personal reasons, but mainly because I wasn’t invited.” He capped off his caption with a church emoji.
Fans React To Mark Hamill’s Wedding Invite Snub
It remains to be seen how well Mark Hamill actually knew the couple in order to score an invite, but that didn’t stop fans from sticking up for him in the comments.
“They invited a thousand people and not Mark Hamill. Mark, you’d be on my guest list before 99% of my family,” one comment read. It got over 10,000 likes in only three hours.
“I wasn’t invited either; it’s not too big of a deal anyway. If I ever get married, I’ll invite you and the rest of the Star Wars cast and crew, and we can blast some Mos Eisley Cantina music and have some Blue Milk!” another follower joked.
“I bet you could have used your Jedi mind tricks to get into the wedding ceremony,” a third user chimed in while another follower joked, “I guess the Fourth wasn’t with you on this one.”
Taylor Swift Opens Up About Her Stunning Engagement
A few weeks after the couple got engaged, the “Mirrorball” singer opened up about the surprise proposal on an October 2025 episode of “The Graham Norton Show.”
“We had actually filmed a podcast episode — he has a podcast called New Heights — so we filmed the podcast for about three or four hours … and meanwhile behind his house, he was having the whole back garden turned into this,” she explained at the time.
“And one of the things that he put in there, very strategically, was a wall of hedges that weren’t there before. And inside the hedges was my tour photographer hiding in bushes that had not previously been there,” she continued, adding, “He went all out — 10 out of 10.”
Travis Kelce’s Father Shares His Thoughts On The Proposal
Shortly after they went public with their engagement announcement, Travis Kelce’s father Ed talked about the proposal during an interview with News 5’s John Kosich on August 26, 2025.
“He got her out there, they were about to go out to dinner, and he said, ‘Let’s go out and have a glass of wine’ … they got out there, and that’s when he asked her, and it was beautiful,” he said at the time. The couple then FaceTimed their family to confirm the happy news following the proposal.
The “So High School” singer announced the engagement in a joint Instagram post, captioning it, “Your English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married.”
Donna Kelce Shares Her Thoughts On The Wedding
As The Blast previously reported, Donna Kelce, the mother of both Jason Kelce and Travis Kelce, called the wedding “magical” when asked about it while attending Macy’s 50th Fourth of July Celebration.
“I really can’t say a heck of a lot except it was magical, man, magical,” she said in an interview posted on Macy’s Instagram on Sunday, July 5.
She also opened up about her own Fourth of July memories with her sons, recalling, “I remember I used to take the boys down to Lake Erie and we would watch the fireworks in Euclid, Ohio, and we had the best time.”