Bizarre Business After Taylor Swift's Wedding: Garbage Collected from Streets Sold Online

In a bizarre turn of events following Taylor Swift's highly discreet wedding, fans have been paying $25 for pieces of garbage collected near the event venue. The items, gathered from streets surrounding Madison Square Garden in New York, include cigarette butts, an ovulation test, bottle caps, and police tape.

New York artist Justin Gignac is behind the unusual sales, marketing the collected debris as souvenirs from the celebrity nuptials. Despite the unconventional nature of the merchandise, all items sold out within 24 hours of being listed online. Gignac reported earning over $1,250 from this initiative, with each piece sealed in a plastic cube and decorated with the wedding slogan "JUST&T MARRIED" and the ceremony date.

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It attracts a lot of Taylor Swift fans who just want a small connection to the wedding.

Swift reportedly married NFL star Travis Kelce in early July at Madison Square Garden in a lavish ceremony attended by hundreds of celebrities. Strict privacy measures meant very little information about the event reached the public, prompting some fans to seek out unique mementos.

Gignac, who also sells other collected New York City garbage, stated that the items appeal to Swift's fans seeking a "small connection" to the wedding. He described the initiative as an attempt to "immortalize important cultural moments in New York," viewing the wedding as one such moment and aiming to create a "small time capsule" of the event. He clarified that all waste was collected from outside the secured perimeter of the venue.

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I'm trying to immortalize important cultural moments in New York, and this seemed like one of them. Basically, I wanted to create a small time capsule from that moment.