Taylor Swift's godmother role to Blake Lively's kids has quietly ended after wedding snub

Taylor Swift's marriage to Travis Kelce at Madison Square Garden on July 3 made one thing unmistakably clear: Blake Lively, Ryan Reynolds, and their four children were not invited. That absence carried weight beyond a simple guest list dispute.

Sources now say Swift's role as godmother to Lively's daughters James, 11; Inez, 9; and Betty, 6, has effectively dissolved alongside their parents' friendship, a casualty of a falling out rooted in Lively's messy legal battle with director Justin Baldoni.

Did Taylor Swift Stop being Godmother to Blake Lively's kids?

Taylor Swift is godmother to Lively's three daughters with Ryan Reynolds. Reynolds confirmed to Deadline in 2024 that Swift holds the godmother role specifically for his daughters, not son Olin, 3.But the title, it seems, no longer comes with much weight. "When Taylor's friendship with Blake and Ryan ended, her role as an active godmother naturally faded too," one source told Rob Shuter's Naughty But Nice Substack. "There wasn't a falling out with the children. She simply isn't part of their everyday lives anymore."That's a significant shift. Swift once made her closeness with this family public in the most visible way possible.

She named a track on her 2020 Folklore album "Betty," after Lively and Reynolds' youngest daughter, and the song's lyrics also featured the names of Betty's older sisters. That kind of gesture doesn't happen between acquaintances. It happens between people who considered themselves family.A second insider said that Lively, Reynolds, and their kids not being invited to the wedding "told the whole story." "Years ago they would have been front and center.

Today, they're no longer part of Taylor's inner circle," the source added. "Taylor still has love for those kids. But relationships with children often depend on relationships with their parents. When the friendship ended, the connection naturally faded.

It's sad, but that's the reality."On the day of the wedding, Lively and Reynolds were spotted in upstate New York, keeping their distance from MSG. A source told Page Six that Lively wasn't invited because "Taylor's in a different place now and she just wants to be around people she trusts and who bring her peace."

Will Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds ever forgive Taylor Swift?

People close to Lively and Reynolds say the wound runs deep. The wedding wasn't just a social event; it was the most high-profile gathering in Hollywood this year, and their exclusion was noticed by everyone."Blake and Ryan will never forgive Taylor for this. They feel completely humiliated. Everyone noticed they weren't there, and that's the kind of public embarrassment you never forget," a source told Shuter.Another insider put the scale of it bluntly: "Steven Spielberg was there.

Paul McCartney was there. Hollywood royalty was there. Blake and Ryan weren't. That spoke volumes."The fallout between Swift and Lively traces back to Lively's civil lawsuit against Baldoni, filed in December 2024. In January 2026, private text messages between Swift and Lively were exposed in court documents. Baldoni's legal team attempted to subpoena Swift in the lawsuit, though that effort was rejected.A source told People that Taylor Swift wanted to "stay away from the drama," adding that she was "just being a friend to Blake, and it's turned into something bigger than she ever expected.

She never thought private messages would become public."That exposure appears to be where trust broke down for good. Lively never publicly congratulated Swift on her engagement to Kelce. The two have been out of each other's lives ever since. The wedding, and the conspicuously missing invitation, now looks less like a snub and more like a conclusion to something that had already quietly ended.