Taylor Swift Reveals How Travis Kelce Designed Her Engagement Ring

Taylor Swift was pleasantly surprised when her fiancé, Travis Kelce, popped the question with a one-of-a-kind engagement ring.

“He designed it with this amazing jeweler, Kindred Lubeck,” Swift, 35, said in a Friday, October 3, interview with the U.K.’s Heart radio station. “She does all of her gold engraving by hand.”

According to Swift, she was the one who introduced Kelce, 35, to the jeweler.

“I had shown him a video [that] I just thought was so cool,” she told hosts Emma Bunton and Jamie Theakston. “I had shown him a video a year and a half ago, and he was just paying attention to everything, it turns out!”

Kelce proposed to Swift in August with an old mine brilliant cut diamond set on a gold band with smaller stones and a thin bezel.

“When I saw the ring, I was just, like, [gasping],” she quipped on Friday. “I was like, ‘I know who made that! I know who made that! And also, you listen to me.’ He did amazing, it was, like, ‘You really know me.’”

Swift added, “I didn’t know what I would want, but he did somehow, and that’s kind of a flex.”

As Swift promoted The Life of a Showgirl on Friday, she also gave Heart listeners a glimpse of her and Kelce’s wedding planning journey.

“You would think that I had been the type of person who would have been obsessed over the idea of a wedding my whole life, but I actually never thought about what I would do or what I would want until I met the person,” she said. “So, I haven’t actually even thought about that [or] doing a [bachelorette party] or whatever.”

Swift further stressed that she and Kelce “haven’t even really started” planning their wedding while she’s in her Showgirl era. (Swift recorded the album during the European leg of her Eras Tour in 2024.)

“We’re taking baby steps,” she said on Friday. “We’re putting one foot in front of the other. I love this era [and] I love this theme of this album. It’s so fun to play with. I want to make more music videos, like, I actually have time to do stuff like that. We can’t move on [because] I’m having too much fun with this. I mean, I just got engaged. These things just happened to me.”

That being said, Swift can’t wait to marry Kelce.

“I’m really excited, too,” she gushed. “He’s the most fun person [and] he’s such a natural in life, like, he’s never been nervous about anything in his entire life. It’s pretty fun, He’s all the things — he’s fun and vibrant and has this infectious personality [and] makes me laugh so much.”

Kelce, a tight end for the Kansas City Chiefs, even served as the muse for many tracks on The Life of a Showgirl.

“There’s a line in [one of the] songs that says, ‘You just wanted a best friend who you think is hot,’” Swift said of “Wi$h Li$t,” which was the last track she wrote for Showgirl. “Well, that’s kind of it.”

The Life of a Showgirl is out now.