Taylor Swift wedding trash sells for $25 a piece, sells out in hours as Swifties snap up cigarette butts and an ovulation test
A New York artist collected discarded items from outside Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce's private Madison Square Garden wedding and sold them online as 'sculptures' for $25 each. All 50 pieces were gone within a day.
The wedding
Taylor Swift and NFL star Travis Kelce married on Friday, 3 July 2026, at Madison Square Garden in New York. The ceremony was closed to the public and media, with around 1,000 guests including actors Adam Sandler, Brad Pitt and musician Paul McCartney. No official photographs have been released by the couple.
The trash collection
New York artist Justin Gignac combed the streets around the arena after the party, gathering items from rubbish bags. His haul included cigarette butts, an ovulation test kit, water bottle caps, police barrier tape, paper straws, cutlery, lollipop sticks and a single left AirPod. Each object was sealed in a small plastic cube, signed on the back and listed on his website New York City Garbage as a 'sculpture'.
It attracts a lot of Swifties who just want a little piece, even indirect, of the wedding.
The sale
Gignac put 50 items up for sale on Wednesday, 8 July, at $25 apiece (about €22). The entire stock sold out in under 24 hours, netting him $1,250. The Spanish daily ABC reported that shipping added another $10 per order. Gignac said he may offer more pieces later.
I try to capture cultural moments in New York, and this seemed like a significant one. The idea is simply to preserve a little time capsule of that instant.
Fan economy
Swifties have a history of paying for unusual concert memorabilia. Confetti from one of the singer's shows previously sold on eBay for $55, and bottled rainwater from a tour stop fetched $250. The wedding-trash sale extends that pattern to a private event the public could not attend.
