Surprising reason Modern Family actor Eric Stonestreet attended Taylor Swift wedding at MSG

For those living under a rock who weren’t aware, Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce got married over the weekend in arguably the biggest celebrity wedding in years.

The private and intimate affair (which took place at Madison Square Garden) had strict rules which saw four members of staff escorted out for taking pictures, with an absolutely star-studded list of names getting invite to the wedding.

Between Emma Stone, Ed Sheeran, Sabrina Carpenter, Taylor’s ex Harry Styles, and Kelce’s former rival Tom Brady, it was a celebrity-filled shindig.

As is often the case with these affairs however, we simply don’t know the lives of these celebrities behind closed doors and who is or isn’t close.

There were some surprises, with Kelce’s Happy Gilmore 2 co-star Adam Sandler officiating the ceremony, but many on social media were surprised by another name who attended.

Eric Stonestreet, who played Cam for 11 seasons, revealed on Instagram that him and his wife Lindsay Schweitzer had attended the high-profile wedding.

What did Stonestreet say about the wedding and why was he invited?

Posting to Instagram, the Modern Family star said: “I guess I can say now. We were at a wedding in New York City last night.

“Two truly special people found each other and what a joy to be able to celebrate them. And also, Lindsay is so hot.”

Jesse Tyler Ferguson, his longtime on-screen husband, commented clearly also surprised (and probably wanting some tea) saying: “If you don't return my text in the next hour.....”

Stonestreet is a longtime friend of Kelce however, having been a passionate Kansas City Chiefs (Kelce’s team throughout his entire NFL career) his whole life.

The actor told PageSix last year: “Travis is awesome. I’ve known Travis for a long time, and I was so happy for him when they started dating because I know him. She deserves a great guy and he’s a great guy.”

When asked at the time whether he’d be getting a wedding invite, he responded: “Oh my god, I don’t know about that.

“I love both of them very much. It would obviously be amazing if that happened, but I wouldn’t want to go if it wasn’t the right thing. I wouldn’t want to force my way in there.”

Of all the high profile attendees to the wedding, however there was one rather high profile name omitted from the list.

Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively were not invited to the wedding despite their public friendship with Swift

Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively were quite noticeably missing from round-ups of famous names who attended, which came as a surprise for many due to Swift and Lively’s longtime friendship.

Rumours claim that Swift, who is the godmother to Lively’s children, fell out with the actor after she was dragged into her legal battle with her It Ends With us co-star Justin Baldoni.

Swift was name-dropped by Baldoni, who claimed Lively used her name to intimidate him during a clash over control of the film, and his lawyers had threatened to name her as a witness if the case went to trial.

An insider has told the Daily Mail that, whilst their friendship was over before, the wedding snub was the final nail in the coffin, saying: “That friendship was over before but if there was hope, it's gone. They'll never be friends again.

“"It feels bad to be excluded like that… [Lively] had sort of hoped that despite everything, their history was enough that they'd be included, but that's not the way it went."