No one does hidden meanings better than Taylor Swift, but when it comes to marriage references in her lyrics, she couldn’t be more clear.

From her 2006 self-titled debut to her 2024 album, The Tortured Poets Department, Swift’s music is peppered with nods to wedding bells, rings and more. The title track from her third album, Speak Now, even follows a wedding crasher on her quest to stop her crush from “marrying the wrong girl.”

Swift spoke candidly about her hopes for finding a lasting love in a 2012 Cosmopolitan cover story. “I need that unexplainable spark. … It’s only happened a few times in my life, but I feel like if I was gonna be with someone forever, it would be because I saw them and I thought, ‘Oh no,'” she said at the time.

She seemingly experienced that gut feeling with Joe

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