When Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce planned a Madison Square Garden wedding, they probably knew it would be a hot ticket, but they may not have realized it would be so hot.

The few fans who gathered outside the Manhattan venue on Friday afternoon as temperatures reached 97 degrees seemed vastly outnumbered by journalists eager for an interview or a celebrity glimpse. Celebrities, in turn, could be difficult to spot amid the sea of ​​police officers, who closed the streets surrounding the historic stadium.

Emma Rasco, a 19-year-old doing a summer internship in New York City, told Business Insider that she was looking forward to seeing more of her fellow Swifties. “I’m not sure where they are yet,” he said.

“Even if there’s not a lot of energy, I’m here to support my girl through thick and thin, behind closed doors or outside,” Rasco said.

The wedding celebration between perhaps America’s biggest pop star and her Super Bowl champion fiance began July 2 with a small gathering of about 100 people in a theater inside the venue. A ceremony with about 1,000 guests would be held at the facility on July 3, the New York Times reported, citing an internal police memo. The post said the festivities will end around 2 a.m.

Dozens of people milled around Seventh Avenue outside the venue around 4:30 p.m., mostly waving. One shouted obscenities at black SUVs with tinted windows crawling down the street before the 5:30 p.m. ceremony. The person shouting, who did not want to give his name, said they were protesting billionaires.

Many others in the area were wearing soccer jerseys and looked like World Cup fans. Three games were scheduled for Friday across the United States, and although none were in New York, hundreds of bars and other businesses across New York have tried to attract audiences for the games. The world soccer federation, FIFA, estimated that tourists would spend $7.5 billion in the United States, Canada and Mexico for the games.

Some people seemed to simply be trying to get to their destinations amid the crowds and police barricades. Several muttered profanities and none stopped for an interview.

Photos on social media also showed crowds at Penn Station, the rail hub across the street from the stadium. New Jersey Transit said a broken train on the busy Northeast Corridor would delay trips by up to 90 minutes, and said trains could run more slowly because of the heat, which can cause power lines to sag and rails to buckle.

One fan, Cecily Hall, said she initially thought Swift and Kelce could get married at a house Swift owns in Rhode Island. But at MSG, he said, “you have sports and music combined in one place,” making it an appropriate place for a singer and a Kansas City Chiefs tight end to get married.

The New York Post reported that Stevie Nicks and Tim McGraw are expected to attend and perform. For weeks, reports have been leaking from anonymous sources about elaborate sets from inside the arena, and some trucks being unloaded were labeled “Garden Party.”