Proud Dad Ed Kelce made his way back to his New York hotel in the early hours of Saturday morning after witnessing his youngest son Travis marry Taylor Swift at Madison Square Garden.

Father of the groom Ed, 75, also watched on as his other son Jason stood alongside Travis as his best man, while his granddaughters were flower girls who threw petals over Swift when she walked down the aisle.

But as the clock passed midnight, Ed turned in for the night with the party expected to run until around 4am in the heart of Manhattan. He looked suave in a black suit and bow tie and said the wedding was ‘great’ before security ushered him inside.

He was clutching what seemed to be another shirt and a teal blanket on his way inside as he called it a night.

It appeared the Kelce patriarch attended his son’s wedding to Taylor Swift solo, despite his new romance with Doree Hepner, a 63-year-old widow and singer more than ten years his junior. 

The Daily Mail had previously reported that Swift was worried her now father-in-law would leak details of the top-secret wedding plans in the buildup to the big day.

Ed Kelce headed back to his hotel after watching son Travis marry Taylor Swift 

The proud dad, 75, also saw his other son Jason serve as Travis’s best man at the wedding 

Ed described the day as ‘great’ before being ushered inside at the end of a big day 

‘He’s sort of like a loose cannon,’ an insider told the Daily Mail in May. ‘Nobody knows what he’s going to say, so it’s kind of a controversial situation.’

But the big day seemingly went off without a hitch as the celebrations ran through into the early hours of the morning. 

Ed wasn’t the earliest departure from the big day. The legendary NFL quarterback Tom Brady was pictured being driven out of the venue before 10pm while Travis’s Kansas City Chiefs head coach Andy Reid left shortly before midnight.

Another guest who left early, George Stephanopoulos, gave fans some precious insight into what it was like to be in the same room as the couple became man and wife.

‘The ceremony was great, moving,’ he told ABC. ‘Adam Sandler (who conducted the ceremony), funny and touching. Vows, everything you would hope for, real, vulnerable, serious, and silly. 

‘Deeply loving. Who knew that a wedding in Madison Square Garden could be so intimate?’

Some other high-profile early departures included Hugh Grant, Michael Strahan and Stephen A. Smith. 

The couple confirmed they were officially man and wife by posting a ‘JUST&T MARRIED’ message on the big screens around MSG on Friday night. 

Kelce looked suave in his black suit and bow tie in the early hours of Saturday morning 

Ed called it a night around 1am but the party was expected to stretch through the early hours

Ed, meanwhile, has never made any secret of his pride at her and his son falling in love. 

‘Every (Chiefs) game there’s people crowding outside the front of that suite trying to get a glimpse of Taylor, wanting to meet Taylor,’ Ed told the LA Times in February 2024. 

‘Taylor’s very gracious, but she can’t do everything. But if it was up to her she’d be out there with everyone who wants her.’