The last time MSG hosted a wedding, 4,000 people got married
From 1982: Mass wedding at Madison Square Garden
Over 2,000 couples got married at Madison Square Garden back in 1982. Here's how WNYW-TV's coverage looked back on July 1, 1982.
Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce won’t be the first, and probably not the last, people to get married at Madison Square Garden.
There've been two other weddings at MSG, and one of the ceremonies included approximately 4,000 people.
Mass wedding at Madison Square Garden
It was 1982 and a crowd of men and women clad in wedding attire lined up to get married at the same time in Madison Square Garden.
It wasn’t a stunt, but a genuine marriage ceremony of 4,000 members of the Unification Church.
FILE - Wedding En Masse. Semi-general view of Madison Square Garden July 1 as some 22000 couples of Reverend Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church are wed en masse. Reverend Moon, his wife and other church officials are on raised platform in background
By the numbers:
The church spent approximately $1.5 million to put on this lavish display of love.
Dig deeper:
In video captured by FOX 5 New York of the mass nuptials, one couple said they had just met six days before they decided to tie the knot.
One couple told FOX that their common background working for the church made getting married quickly a non-issue.
What they're saying:
"Reverend Moon recommended we marry," the groom said. "We have a long, common background of working for the church. So our common background is the same. So when you have something in common, there's no problem."
Past celebrity wedding at MSG
FILE - ly Stone gets an old-fashioned hug from bride, Kathy Silva, 20, mother of the rock star's 9-month-old son, Sylvester Jr., after the couple's wedding before 23,000 screaming fans at Madison Square Garden. (Photo by Vincent Riehl/NY Daily News A
In 1974, legendary funk musician Sly Stone got married to actress Kathy Silva on stage during one of his concerts.
Both Stone and Silva’s wedding ceremony, as well as the mass Unification Church ceremony, took place in the main area, according to USA Today.
The Source: Information for this article was taken from archival video recorded in 1982 by FOX 5 New York and reporting by The Washington Post and USA Today.