Blake Lively Taylor Swift wedding fallout landed on Friday when Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds were left off Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s guest list. The exclusion followed a breakup in the friendship and put the wedding decision in plain view.
A source told Page Six that Swift wanted to be around people she trusts and who bring her peace. The same source said, “Taylor’s in a different place now and she just wants to be around people she trusts and who bring her peace.”
Lake Placid on Thursday evening
On Thursday evening, Lively and Reynolds were in Lake Placid, New York, supporting their daughter Betty at a horse show. Betty placed second in the competition, a small but telling contrast to the celebrity guest list heading into Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s wedding.
That guest list included Gigi Hadid, Bradley Cooper, Dakota Johnson, Tree Paine, and Abigail Anderson. Machine Gun Kelly, Kelsea Ballerini, Erin Andrews, Eric Stonestreet, Lindsay Schweitzer, and Benson Boone were also spotted heading to the event, a roster that made the omission of Lively and Reynolds impossible to miss.
2025 breakup around Justin Baldoni
The friendship between Taylor Swift and Blake Lively imploded in 2025 after Swift was dragged into Lively’s legal battle with Justin Baldoni. In January 2025, Baldoni filed a $400 million lawsuit against Lively, Reynolds, and their publicist, and that case was dismissed in June 2025.
A source said Swift thought she and Lively would get past the situation at one point, but the accumulation of events changed her mind. The source said, “It wasn’t one big thing, it was everything adding up. By the time Taylor was making decisions about the wedding and who she wanted there, she realized she just didn’t want that kind of energy around something so important and it really was a turning point for her.”
July 3 at Madison Square Garden
Swift and Travis Kelce tied the knot at Madison Square Garden in New York City on July 3, and the guest list now reads like a clean line between the inner circle and everyone else. The wedding shutout leaves no sign of a repaired bridge between Swift and Lively, and the people around the bride now appear to be the ones she trusts most.
