Could millions of Swifties, the global media and harried legions of Americans inundated by wall-to-wall coverage have been thinking about the upcoming Taylor Swift-Travis Kelce wedding all wrong?

For months, journalists, internet sleuths and fans have followed the signs, uncovered the Easter eggs and speculated over when and where the world's most famous pop star would get hitched.

Would it be at Swift's Rhode Island mansion? In Kelce's adopted Kansas City? Music City? Upstate New York?

All the educated guesses began with the assumption that the date and venue would be treated as state secrets, closely guarded on a need-to-know basis and likely only revealed after the fact.

So, when it was reported that the wedding would be held at Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, nearly everyone suspected subterfuge.

A decoy. Misdirection!

Now, it is confirmed that Swift and Kelce are transforming the iconic NYC arena into a fairy-tale setting of their own design for an event on Friday evening. Could it be that this celebration was never intended to be so secret?

'They could have a private wedding if they wanted to,' RoseMarie Terenzio, longtime personal assistant to JFK Jr who helped masterminded the Kennedy's heir's famously clandestine wedding to Carolyn Bessette 30 years ago this fall, tells the Daily Mail. 'My sense is that privacy is not their priority.'

Terenzio knows a few things about confidentiality.

In 1996, she orchestrated the secretive Kennedy-Bessette affair, held on the tiny, secluded Cumberland Island off the coast of Georgia. 'It was very DIY, with no formal wedding planner, just lots of help from Caroline's friends,' says Terenzio, author of JFK Jr: An Intimate Oral Biography.

There were no printed invitations. JFK Jr didn't have a publicist. As a precaution, Terenzio and Bessette Xeroxed the wedding programs themselves, not trusting the task to a professional printer, staying up late one night drinking Diet Cokes and smoking cigarettes to get the job done.

Terenzio does not claim to know if Swift's public relations team intentionally planted false rumors of alternate wedding venues, but she certainly did, leaving bogus Ireland honeymoon itineraries around the office of George – the lifestyle magazine founded by JFK Jr.

Any nosy reporters or leaky staffers would be sent chasing their tails. And the ruse worked. The day after the wedding, the Daily News had a reporter on a flight to Dublin.

Terenzio was so committed to stealth that she didn't even attend the wedding, knowing that her travel may tip off any journalist who may have been keeping tabs on her.

'It was small, only 40 people, and [Kennedy and Bessette] really thought about what they wanted before they made the decision. It was a discussion between the two of them and their families and what they wanted to do.'

Three decades on, Terenzio recognizes that Swift's affair – with its reported 1,000-plus guests – is a horse of a different color.

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As Terenzio sees it, the MSG festivities will be less a wedding reception, and more a full-scale Taylor and Travis extravaganza.

'What better place could there be for the pair than MSG,' she adds. 'Sports and music, that's what MSG is known for.'

And why not? With Forbes now estimating Swift's net worth at more than $2 billion, she can certainly afford it. And leaning into spectacle, rather than secrecy, allows Taylor to do what she has always done best, engage a fanatic fan base.

'She understands her fanbase better than anyone. She's very savvy and there's a connection there that she's created and maintained over so many years. They are invested in her.'

The Madison Square Garden event, 'may even be livestreamed. Maybe it's a concert, maybe it's some slideshow of the wedding that has already taken place.'

Yes, floats Terenzio, 'It's possible they're actually already married.'

Despite the barricades obstructed outside MSG, she suspects there may be 'some sort of watch party' or organized public gathering over the weekend.

Fans were the last thing JFK Jr and Bessette were looking for at their wedding in Georgia. They wanted an interruption-proof, paparazzi-proof, gossip-proof location.

'They wanted their guests to be invested in keeping their privacy, to feel like they were 'in on' keeping the wedding secret,' Terenzio says.

As a result, there was zero media coverage and no disruptions. Only three official photographs, including an iconic image of JFK Jr kissing Bessette's hand as they exited the island's tiny church house.

'Taylor could have had a private wedding; Taylor could have had any wedding she wanted,' Terenzio says.

Of course, in the end, the bride gets what she wants.