For years, Taylor Swift was the invisible string tying Kayla McCarty and Kat Messinger to each other. The two were at the same and had a mutual friend who wanted to introduce them, but the crowd was too chaotic to navigate. Then, they would've joined the same friend group and attended Lover Fest in 2020, if it hadn't been canceled due to COVID.
"Our mutual friends told us 'you guys would be perfect for each other,' and we just have never been able to connect," McCarty, 31, told Business Insider. But on June 3, 2023, the two finally made it to the second night of in Chicago. McCarty came from California and Messinger from Iowa, sharing a suite with their friends.
"We definitely could have talked to anyone in the whole suite," McCarty said. "We were gravitating toward each other all night long." Some people observing them already thought they were a couple, especially when McCarty gave Messinger a friendship bracelet when she saw her getting emotional during Swift's " .
" "That was pretty much the moment that locked in this deep understanding of each other," McCarty said. After almost a year of dating, including attending three more Eras Tour shows together, the two got engaged this past weekend. "At an Eras Tour in SoFi, I gave her a friendship bracelet to ask her to be my girlfriend," McCarty said.
"This weekend, she gave me a friendship bracelet and asked me to marry her, full circle." Days after they met, Messinger kept messaging the group chat originally used to coordinate .
