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In Taylor Swift’s beach town, every clue becomes a wedding rumor 27%
By Leah Willingham0%
6/20/2026, 10:08:15 PM
Topics: Taylor Swift, Travis Kelce, Rhode Island, Westerly, Watch Hill, Wedding Rumors, Local Impact, Celebrity Culture
Keywords: Taylor Swift, John Curtis, Travis Kelce, Rhode Island, New York City, New York, Massachusetts, Taylor Swift Wedding Rhode Island, Leslie Aucapina, Business, Lifestyle, Connecticut, Weddings, Professional Services, Marriage, Madison Square Garden Sports Corp, Nicole Simeral, John F Kennedy, Retail And Wholesale, Lauren Nigrelli, Nick Quaratella, Entertainment, Sports
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WESTERLY, R.I.
(AP) — When a large tent appeared next door to Taylor Swift’s Watch Hill estate this week, it didn’t take long for speculation about the superstar’s impending nuptials to ripple through the affluent New England seaside village — and the internet.
Soon, fans were swapping theories online, photographers were staking out vantage points and residents found themselves fielding questions about a wedding that never was.
Or at least, a wedding that seems yet to happen.
The rumors, so far, have proved unfounded.
But they offered a glimpse into life in Watch Hill, the Rhode Island beach community in the town of Westerly, close to the Connecticut border, where Swift has owned a home for more than a decade and where curiosity about the singer has become woven into everyday life.
She watched visitors speculate about a wedding she said she knew wasn’t Swift’s.
She’s working a different wedding every weekend in June in that spot.
Still, the questions kept coming.
“Is Taylor Swift getting married here?
Many, many, many have asked,” Simeral said.
She said there had been “a lot of chitter chatter” as people tried to connect sightings of people who know Swift in local shops to impending nuptials.
But she doubted Watch Hill would be practical for a wedding of that scale because of its limited luxury lodging.
The tent itself, Simeral said, was hardly unusual.
“Next weekend, there’ll be another tent just like this.”
For two summers, Westerly Police Department community service officer Nick Quaratella has stood at the entrance to a public path leading to the beach beside Swift’s estate, answering questions from beachgoers and keeping traffic moving.
“They come to the beach, but then they also ask if she’s here or not,” Quaratella said.
“And they’ll say, ‘No.’
And I say, ‘Yeah, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson moved in.’
And they’ll go, ‘Oh, really?’
and then they’ll walk away.”
“That’s pretty funny,” he concluded.
He said he can’t help but joke around with some fans.
Quaratella has fielded a few questions about the supposed wedding, but not as many as he expected.
“At this point, it’s part of my job,” he said.
“It makes me smile.
It makes me laugh.
I have no problem with it.
It makes the day go by.”
Living with Taylor Swift
Down near a strip of beach boutiques, lifelong resident Lauren Nigrelli said the frenzy surrounding the star has eased since Swift first moved into the neighborhood in 2013.
Back then, Nigrelli recalled, fans would drive around in circles by her shop playing Swift’s songs.
“Things have definitely calmed down since then,” she said.
She said she had heard various theories, including speculation that a wedding might be held at Ocean House.
But as she thought through the logistics, she became skeptical.
“Then I was thinking about, ‘How would everybody get here?’
she said.
“In New York, you’ve got JFK, you’ve got LaGuardia, and she’s got two penthouses in New York that she combined, so I figured they could obviously have more people there.”
Her husband wasn’t so sure.
“They could lie and say it’s happening there, but it’s happening here,” John Curtis said.
“When important people do things, they don’t want people to know.”
She said the excitement surrounding Swift helped local businesses and enjoyed visiting the inspiration for “the last great american dynasty,” a song about Holiday House from Swift’s 2020 Grammy Album of the Year-winning album, folklore.
But she said the speculation at times crosses a line.
“If she wants to share it, she wants to share it,” she said.
“At the end of the day, it’s someone’s house.”
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