Country singer Brad Paisley has shared new details about attending Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce's wedding, held earlier this month at Madison Square Garden in Manhattan. Despite the venue's 20,000-capacity scale, Paisley described it as "one of the least pretentious weddings" he has ever attended, offering a rare guest's-eye view of an event that had been kept tightly under wraps even from those invited.

Paisley, who was joined by his wife Kimberly Williams-Paisley, told the Associated Press that invitees played a "cat-and-mouse game" before the big day, receiving only vague hints about location and date before further details were confirmed. Swift, who opened for Paisley on his 2007 tour as a teenager, reportedly told guests in their invitations that "you mean a lot to us." Ahead of the wedding, the couple also donated $26 million across 20 charities tied to cities significant to them, including Paisley's Nashville-based nonprofit The Store, which he called a "transformative" gift.