San Francisco 49ers star George Kittle is hoping Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift’s wedding isn’t a repeat of what happened at his teammate Christian McCaffey’s ceremony.
When McCaffrey, 29, married OIivia Culpo in June 2024, the beer supply ran low — which meant Kittle, 32, was forced to take things into his own hands.
“That was a tough one. I had to provide most of the beer that night,” George exclusively told Us Weekly in an interview with his wife, Claire Kittle, in partnership with U.S. Bank at the 2026 NFL Draft on Thursday, April 23.
When it comes to the upcoming wedding of Kelce and Swift, both 36, George said, “I think Travis will be pretty prepared.”
“I think they’ll have plenty,” George added. “It’s a great time that I’m looking forward to.”
Kelce and Swift are expected to get married this summer, before Kelce returns for his 14th NFL season with the Kansas City Chiefs.
In discussing the most highly-anticipated wedding in recent memory, George and Claire reflected back on their own, which was decidedly more understated than what Kelce and Swift likely have planned.
“We actually got married in a jewelry store in Iowa City on a Wednesday in 2019,” Claire said. “I went to Dillard’s and bought a one-piece jumpsuit. There were family and friends who owned the jewelry store that we went to. It was literally just our family.”
The couple had a more proper ceremony in 2021, but it was still a very intimate affair.
“We had a 30-person wedding at our house,” George said. “We didn’t have to pay for the venue. My only thing I wanted was a root beer float for a dessert. I wanted that and I wanted a fun dance floor. So, we had a checkered dance floor. It was my groomsmen and their spouses, and then her bridesmaids and their spouses. That was our entire wedding. It was pretty easy.”
George and Claire — who got engaged in 2018, after meeting during their time at the University of Iowa — were forced to accept new financial realities after George was drafted by the 49ers in 2017.
“We went from paying 500 dollars in rent in Iowa to going to Silicon Valley paying 5,000 [dollars] for a three-bedroom apartment that we split, him and I and two of his teammates, because we couldn’t afford anything else,” Claire explained. “The conversations started then. It was like, ‘We’re in California.’”
In August 2020, George signed a five-year, $75 million contract with the 49ers, which brought about financial conversations of a different variety.
“You make more money and then you get the opportunity to do more fun things,” George said. “Once you start doing more fun things — whether it’s nicer vacations, you wanna fly first class — it’s like, now I’m spending more money and I really have to think about whether I’m making enough money to spend this much money, and how am I setting myself up for when I’m not making this money? Can I still live the lifestyle I want to live or do I have to figure that out?”
He added, “I’m not having that conversation when I’m at Iowa and I’m getting 800 dollars a month. It’s a completely different conversation. It’s like, ‘Can I buy a beer today or not?’”
George signed a four-year, $76.4 million contract extension with the 49ers, with $40 million guaranteed, in April 2025.
Along the way, he’s been able to rely on U.S. Bank, who just signed a multi-year-partnership as the new official bank and wealth management sponsor of the NFL.
