EXCLUSIVE
Fiance tells family: We tie knot tonight! - Britney weds...(again)
Posted 19.09.2004

BRITNEY SPEARS' fiancé KEVIN FEDERLINE told his family yesterday: "We're getting married...tonight."

Our exclusive pictures of the pair on their hen and stag nights would seem to back up the boast.

And though we went to press before any ceremony, we can confirm that friends and relatives are on stand-by for a wedding.

They were tipped off by a furious Britney after she learned that details had leaked out of their planned nuptials at the plush Bacara resort in Santa Barbara on November 20.

One source told us: "Britney is hoping to catch the Press off guard and do a Jennifer Lopez by marrying in secret.

"The Emmy TV awards are being held in Los Angeles this weekend and she is hoping that, with Press attention focusing on that, she can secretly tie the knot at home then throw a party as planned at Bacara."

Britney, who married childhood sweetheart Jason Alexander for 55 hours in January, dyed her blonde hair brown for her raucous three-day hen party with girlfriends at the Fairmont Hotel in Santa Monica.

Meanwhile, Kevin was enjoying a more downmarket stag night with his friends and family at his favourite restaurant Houston's, also in Santa Monica.

Britney's mum Lynne tried to scupper her party.

A source close to the singer said: "Lynne told Britney she'd be having her hen night back home in Kentwood, Louisiana.

"But Britney won and went ahead with the do with her pals."

Britney and Kevin have already had a dummy run for the wedding in the video for her new single My Prerogative.

In the promo she and Kevin—one of her dancers—exchange vows at the altar. He slips a huge diamond ring on her finger before they kiss.

The question is... were they doing the same thing for real last night?

LOS ANGELES, California - Oops! Pop star Britney Spears did it again and got married for the second time this year -- this time to dancer Kevin Federline in a low-key ceremony Saturday at a private home in Studio City, California, a record-label executive confirmed on Sunday.

"Yes, I can tell you the happy couple got married yesterday," David Frostman of Jive Records, a British spokesman for Spears, told Reuters in London. Frostman declined to provide further details.

Spears, 22, and Federline, 26, surprised their parents with the unexpected ceremony which took place about 7:30 p.m. at the home of a tailor who had custom-made the tuxedos for the groom and other men in the wedding, according to a report on the Web site of Star magazine.

A publicist for the syndicated entertainment television show "Access Hollywood," which also carried a report of the nuptials on its Web site, said that show organizers were with Spears' mother, Lynn, and her younger sister, Jamie Lynn on Saturday until 5 p.m. as they got ready for what they believed to be an "engagement dinner."

"Jamie Lynn dyed her hair back to its original color of brown and told the show that she couldn't wait to surprise her sister with the new look at the 'dinner,' " the report on the Access Hollywood Web site stated.

Star reported that only 20 immediate family members attended the ceremony. Britney reportedly wore a strapless white dress designed by Monique L'Huillier, with a long veil and tiara, and she carried a bouquet of pink and white roses, the tabloid said. Five bridesmaids and a maid of honor all reportedly wore burgundy and carried red roses.

The couple exchanged rings and danced to Journey's "Lights," the tabloid reported. Guests reportedly dined on chicken fingers, crab cakes, ribs and Waldorf salad.

U.S.-based publicists for the couple were not immediately available to comment on Sunday.

On January 2 of this year Spears married high school sweetheart Jason Alexander in an impromptu ceremony in Las Vegas. But the ill-fated marriage only lasted three days and was annulled on January 5.

Spears and Federline announced their engagement in June. Federline has two children with his former girlfriend, actress Shar Jackson.