New York Crews Are Ordered to Rip Up a Red Carpet Outside Madison Square Garden as Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s Secret Wedding Prep Hits a Snag: ‘Tight-Lipped’ | The Nerd Stash

The carpet mix-up is only one piece of a tightly locked-down operation. Workers were reportedly asked to hand over their cell phones at the start of the day to prevent leaks, and one crew member who spoke to Page Six summed up the mood in a single line. “We aren’t told anything. Everything is so tight-lipped,” the worker said.

That secrecy runs all the way to the guest list. Sources say the roughly 1,000 expected guests, along with family and close friends, have been asked to sign nondisclosure agreements, and many reportedly still do not know the exact location. Invitees were told only to be in New York City on July 2 and July 3, with no venue address provided.

The mishap quickly became its own event online, where fans zeroed in on the color detail. Plenty read it as a nod to Swift’s Speak Now era, with one writing “Speak now stans rise” and another joking, “She said Speak Now not RED!” Others felt for the crew, as one user put it: “Omg poor workers who did all that only to find out they were given the wrong color.” Not everyone was charmed, though, with one skeptic scoffing that it all “Sounds more like a spectacle than a wedding.“