Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively were photographed in Lake Placid, New York, on Thursday, far from Taylor Swift’s wedding festivities in New York City. TMZ shared the photos after the couple spent the day cheering for their daughter Betty at a horse show.
The sighting matters because it landed while Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce were celebrating with friends and family in New York City, not far from the center of the chatter about who was and was not included. The location alone was enough to answer one question readers had been asking: Reynolds and Lively were not at the festivities because they were in upstate New York, about 4.5 hours away, watching Betty compete.
That distance also gives the timing its bite. Reynolds wore a plain white T-shirt, khaki pants and a tan hat. Lively was in a halter-neck top, denim shorts and a messy bun, a low-key look for a day that surfaced against renewed attention on her friendship with Swift. For years, the two women were close. Then Lively dragged Swift’s name into her legal battle with Justin Baldoni, and the Grammy winner was said to be angry and frustrated that her name had been pulled into the dispute. A later report from The Daily Mail said Swift had resumed contact with Lively after their recent falling out.
But that version of events has not gone unchallenged. A source cited by Page Six said there had not been an olive branch when it came to the friendship and that Taylor had not extended a wedding invitation to Blake. That leaves the Lake Placid photos doing more than showing where the couple spent Thursday: they also sit in the middle of a split picture of the relationship, with one report suggesting contact had resumed and another saying the breach still had not been mended.
So the immediate answer is clear. Reynolds and Lively were not in New York City for the wedding festivities, and there is no public sign here that the reported rift has been fully repaired. What remains unanswered is whether the distance was only practical, or whether it still reflected a friendship that has not yet made it back to the point of a wedding invitation.
