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.