Rob Gronkowski Says Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce's 'Wonderful' Wedding Was the 'Best' He's Ever Been to 'Hands Down': 'It Was So Magnificent'

Rob Gronkowski has attended his fair share of star-studded events, but Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s wedding is officially at the top of his list.

The former NFL star opens up about his jam-packed summer during an exclusive interview with OK! while discussing his partnership with eBay Live and his new "Gronk Geeks Out" series, which follows him as he dives deeper into the world of sports card collecting and memorabilia.

Gronkowski, 36, is quick to rave about Swift and Kelce’s "wonderful" wedding, which took place on Friday, July 3. The sports star attended the Madison Square Garden ceremony with his longtime lover, Camille Kostek,

"Oh, my gosh. Yo, my July was off the charts," he tells OK!. "You are right, from the white party to the wonderful wedding, which was, like, so magnificent. It really was, by far the best wedding I've ever been to, hands down."

The celebration came just two days after Gronkowski attended Michael Rubin’s annual White Party in the Hamptons on Wednesday, July 1. The star-studded bash kicked off the July 4th weekend and brought together some of the biggest names in Hollywood.

After experiencing both events within days of each other, Gronkowski admits he's not sure anything else could top the whirlwind start to summer.

"But literally, I don't know what's going to top that," he says. "July 4th, the whole entire week — it was the best July 4th week I've ever had."

While Gronkowski's summer has been filled with celebrity events, he also reflects on the NFL career that made him a household name.

Elsewhere in the interview, the retired tight end weighs in on his former teammate Tom Brady's recent admission that he didn't fully realize Gronkowski's value until after he retired.

Gronkowski responds with his trademark humor, joking that Brady had to lose him to appreciate him.

"Yeah, that's right. You know, sometimes you just got to leave to appreciate someone," he quips. "And that's why I left him hanging twice at the end of my career. He didn't appreciate me while we were playing. So I left him hanging one year in New England, and I left him hanging one year in Tampa Bay."

But beneath the joke, Gronkowski says he understood exactly what Brady meant, explaining that being around greatness every day can make it feel normal.

"Sometimes you're just in the mix of it, you know? You don't understand the value of someone because you've been around them for so long and you just show up every single day with them," he notes.

Gronkowski points out that playing alongside Brady and former Patriots coach Bill Belichick meant being surrounded by an exceptionally high standard every day.

"I was around Tom Brady every single day. I knew his greatness. I was around Coach Belichick every single day. I knew their greatness, and it was just a bar that was presented, you know, at a level that you just had to have the standard at every single day," he recalls. "So you just got used to it. It was a normal feeling. It was a normal day. You didn't understand that, you know, the bar was set so high, it's just because it was like that every single day, so you thought that was the norm."

Looking back now, Gronkowski has an even greater appreciation for the career he built alongside Brady, Belichick and the rest of his former teammates.

"Holy c---, I appreciate it even more," he shares. "The run that we had, you know, in New England, you know, with Tom, with Coach Belichick. I see what, you know, Julian Edelman did as a player. Being with the guys around me as Randy Moss and Wes Welker. I'm more blown away now than I was even back then, because it was just so natural to us."

These days, Gronkowski is channeling that same appreciation for sports into a different kind of hobby: collecting.

His partnership with eBay Live has him exploring the world of sports cards and memorabilia through "Gronk Geeks Out," a new series that gives him the chance to reconnect with the hobby he loved as a kid.

"Growing up as a kid, eBay was a huge part of my life," Gronkowski remembers, recalling how he used the platform to buy and sell everything from paintball guns to scooters with his brother.

He also grew up collecting sports cards, revealing that he and his brothers still have "stacks on stacks, on stacks" of cards at their childhood home.

"We got thousands and thousands of cards from baseball cards to NHL cards, so football cards," he adds. "That, you know, experience growing up, you know, that's why this crave of collecting cards and sports memorabilia is so cool to me because I remember I was doing it as a kid, and now it's even booming even more."

Following The National Sports Collectors Convention, the "Gronk Geeks Out" series will continue this fall at New York Comic Con, taking place October 8-11. There, Gronkowski will explore comics, collectibles and superhero fandom alongside eBay Live seller PCB Hobby.