Ed Sheeran, Ellie Goulding, Ashanti, and the Chicks were some of the other musicians in attendance.

Avril Lavigne sang ‘Sk8er Boi’ at Taylor Swift’s wedding, other musicians freely performed throughout night

Ed Sheeran, Ellie Goulding, Ashanti, and the Chicks were some of the other musicians in attendance.

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- ESPN analyst Pat McAfee has dropped more inside details of Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s top-secret wedding ceremony.

- McAfee claimed that Avril Lavigne performed her 2002 hit “Sk8r Boi,” while other musician guests performed freely throughout the night.

- Swift and Kelce’s star-studded July 3 wedding at Madison Square Garden was attended by the likes of Ed Sheeran, Ellie Goulding, Ice Spice, and more.

He was a Super Bowl star, she was a Grammy juggernaut — can I make it any more obvious?

Avril Lavigne performed her eternal millennial classic “Sk8r Boi” at Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s wedding, according to ESPN sports analyst Pat McAfee.

McAfee has become an unlikely go-to source for all things Tayvis, ever since he was one of hundreds of famous names to attend the wedding of the century at Madison Square Garden on July 3. During Monday’s live broadcast of *The Pat McAfee Show*, the former WWE wrestler and NFL punter noted, “Paul McCartney played a song he hasn’t played since 1960” (the song was “I Want to Hold Your Hand,” and it was released in 1963, but it’s true McCartney hadn’t played it since 1964).

“Stevie Nicks played, Taylor was up with them, obviously,” McAfee continued. “Avril Lavigne — I don’t want to give away too much. But it was the greatest night of all time.”

Well, McAfee did give away a bit more during a broadcast the following day.

“I guess me saying Avril Lavigne played ‘Sk8r Boi’ was the first time that it came out,” he said. “But she was awesome. And to be clear, those musicians... one would just call out the other, and then they would come up and they would just do their s---.”

* *has reached out to a representative to Lavigne for comment.

Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce in New York City in 2024.

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McAfee described the Tayvis nuptials on Monday’s episode of the *Pat McAfee Show *this way: “Think about her brain going to her dream wedding and then Travis Kelce’s energy in the middle of it in the football world, coming together with Hollywood and Nashville.”

He wasn’t the only one to break the alleged compact of silence that Swift and Kelce attempted to hold their guests to.

George Stephanopoulos described the proceedings as “intimate as it could possibly be, considering that it was Madison Square Garden,” adding that there was a “garden inside the Garden that was so beautiful.”

Ashanti; Benson Boone; Natalie Maines.

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As for what musical guests may or may not have sang after the ceremony, Paul McCartney indeed sang “I Want to Hold Your Hand,” and Stephanopoulos, Robin Roberts, and Michael Strahan confirmed that Nicks performed as well.

A veritable cavalcade of musicians joined them, from Camila Cabello and Sombr to the Haim sisters, Ellie Goulding, Benson Boone, Ashanti, and all three members of The Chicks.

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