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The singer made her way to Columbus, Ohio, to surprise bride-to-be Gena Gabrielle, who she first met at a meet-and-greet in 2007, E! [reports](http://www.eonline.com/news/531583/taylor-swift-crashes-bridal-shower-surprises-fan-with-kitchenaid-mixer-cookbook-more-see-the-pics). Gabrielle invited Swift to her wedding and shower, but didn’t expect her to show up, so it was a total surprise. And if T-Swift just _being_ there wasn’t enough of a gift, she also brought presents, including this mixer: Gabrielle made sure to share plenty of additional photos of the shower on Instagram: Her fiancé probably hates Taylor Swift now, though, because he knows his wife-to-be will never be as excited to see him as she was to see T-Swift. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/62505/taylor-swift-attends-fans-bridal-shower/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/62505/taylor-swift-attends-fans-bridal-shower/"},"headline":"Total Girls' Girl Taylor Swift Showed Up to a Fan's Bridal Shower Bearing Gifts","datePublished":"2014-04-14T21:30:31.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:08:47.281Z","description":"And there wasn't any trouble when she walked in!","url":"https://time.com/62505/taylor-swift-attends-fans-bridal-shower/","keywords":["Newsfeed","celebrities","Weddings","Taylor Swift","celebrity","singers"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc5cf5ab047df08b4/69868aa6810bbbb371c910c9/483125041.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc5cf5ab047df08b4/69868aa6810bbbb371c910c9/483125041.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"49th Annual Academy Of Country Music Awards - Arrivals","caption":"49th Annual Academy Of Country Music Awards - Arrivals","creditText":"Jason Kempin / Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/62505/taylor-swift-attends-fans-bridal-shower/","name":"Total Girls' Girl Taylor Swift Showed Up to a Fan's Bridal Shower Bearing Gifts"}}]}] ```