Taylor Swift loves an Easter egg. The music star has been hiding stealth teasers hinting at new albums or songs, release dates, inspirations and more for years, delighting fans with her secret communications. So when fans got a look at what her boyfriend of nearly two years, Travis Kelce, wore as he arrived at the Amazon Upfronts in NYC on May 12, they wondered if he, too, might be sending out a coded message: He hit the red carpet wearing a gray suit and a T-shirt featuring an illustration of a cake. But not just any cake. “Is that a wedding cake on Travis Kelce’s t-shirt? Travy and Taylor need to stop playing us,” one fan commented on social media. “It looks like a wedding cake a bit. Very interesting,” wrote another. Even Harper’s Bazaar magazine shared a post fueling the frenzy, noting that by wearing the $222 tee from Marni, “Travis Kelce Dropped the Biggest Clue That He May Be Engaged to Taylor Swift.”

The 35-year-old Kansas City Chiefs tight end and podcast host certainly “got everyone buzzing with that T-shirt,” a source exclusively acknowledges to Life & Style. “But the question is, was that his intention — and are he and Taylor really planning a wedding?”

Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s Friends Say ‘They’re Not’ Engaged’

While droves of fans are speculating they are, friends close to the couple “say they’re not. They love the pace that their relationship is going at,” explains the source. “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it, right?”

Publicly, Travis has made it clear his priority this football offseason is getting in great shape. At the NYC event, he told reporters he’s dropped 25 pounds since the Chiefs’ February Super Bowl loss to the Philadelphia Eagles. He plans to help lead his team to victory this fall in what many sports commentators anticipate will likely be his 13th and final season in the NFL.

In November 2024, Travis’ brother, Jason Kelce, didn’t flinch when ESPN analyst Pat McAfee referred to Taylor, 35, as the retired Eagles center’s “future sister-in-law.” And on May 12 — after photos of Taylor joining Travis and Jason’s mom, Donna Kelce, and Jason’s wife, Kylie Kelce, for a Mother’s Day meal one day earlier at Talula’s Garden restaurant in Philadelphia emerged — Jason confirmed that Taylor and Travis had both already met his 6-week-old daughter, Finnley. “We were fortunate to have them all in,” the retired NFL star told Entertainment Tonight. “It doesn’t happen often — everyone’s really busy — but it was really special.”

Even  if wedding plans aren’t yet in the works, according to the source, friends say that as far as the Grammy winner is concerned, “Travis is ‘the one,’ and Taylor is going to marry him. It’s just a matter of when.”