Just when you thought you'd seen it all from Britney Spears,
the pop princess, 22, has gotten married -- at a little Vegas chapel,
wearing a baseball cap, to a childhood friend, sources close to the singer
say. A hotel bellman walked her down the aisle.
But before you make any plans to send wedding gifts, a source close to
the pop star insists it was all a joke that went too far, and that Spears
is already making plans to annul the marriage.
Says someone close to Spears: "I don't know what's going through her
mind."
Spears's husband -- at least for the time being -- is named Jason Allen
Alexander, and, like the singer, is from Kentwood, La. The two tied the
knot early Saturday morning in Las Vegas at the Little White Wedding
Chapel on the Strip, sources tell PEOPLE.
The wedding plan was apparently hatched Friday night while Spears and
Alexander were partying at Ghostbar, the hip club in the Palms Casino
Hotel. The club's bouncers got word that Spears wanted a limo. One of the
hotel's lime-green limos was provided, being driven by a hotel bellman,
who shuttled the couple to the Little White Wedding Chapel, a famous
quick-hitch place where everybody from Dixie Chick Natalie Maines to Bruce
and Demi have tied the knot.
Chapel staff told the couple that they couldn't get married without a
license, so the pair was taken by the limo to the Clark County Marriage
Bureau office in the downtown Las Vegas courthouse at some point after
12:30 a.m. on Saturday. They applied for and were granted the marriage
license, then rode back to the chapel, where they were married.
Spears wore jeans and a baseball cap. Alexander had on a casual shirt.
The bellman walked Spears down the aisle. There were no friends or family
in attendance.
The whole thing was videotaped by the chapel, and Spears has been
showing the world's craziest wedding video to friends.
"I don't even know if she loves him," says a source.
The honeymoon, such as it was, took place back at a luxury suite at the
Palms immediately after the wedding. Then, Saturday night, Spears dined
with her manager, her brother, Palms owner George Maloof and a couple of
friends at a hotel steakhouse.
Little is known about Alexander. A source says that he and Spears were
childhood friends who recently hooked up -- then hitched up. They had
spent New Year's Eve together at the hotel's Rain nightclub, then retired
to the suite.
Spears released her fourth album, "In the Zone," last November. It
debuted at No. 1 on the album charts. Her concert tour begins in San Diego
on March 2.