Oops! Britney to do marriage again
(Agencies)
Updated: 2004-06-28 17:13

She may be on crutches, but Britney Spears hasn't lost her budding talent for walking down the aisle.

She may be on crutches, but Britney Spears hasn't lost her budding talent for walking down the aisle.

Just six months after a quickie Las Vegas wedding and annulment, the sidelined pop tart is at it again, confirming her engagement to dancer Kevin Federline.

No date was announced for the Spears-Federline nuptials. And, no, none for the dissolution, either. Star magazine claims the big to-do will go down Nov. 20 in front of 200 guests, five groomsmen and five bridesmaids in Los Angeles or Spears' native Louisiana.

The marriage will be Spears' sorta-second. Her first ring exchange, with hometown pal Jason Alexander, then 22, while official, was a nonstarter. The union was deep-sixed just 55 hours after it began.

The marriage also will be the first for Federline, 26, who, while a stranger to matrimony, is no stranger to other hallowed institutions, such as fatherhood. Federline has a two-year-old daughter with former Moesha star Shar Jackson. The ex-couple is expecting their second child in July.

The gracious Jackson has been quoted as declaring Federline and Spears are "made for each other."

"You both smoke, you both drink and you both cheated on significant others after three years," Jackson told Us Weekly in April, apparently referencing herself and Spears' former beau, Justin Timberlake.

Jackson issued just one ultimatum to the twosome: "There are two little kids--she [Spears] better be prepared to babysit."

Reports that Federline popped the question to Spears surfaced last week. At the time, Spears' rep told the New York Post she didn't know if the buzz was so, but that the singer was "pretty lucky" to have Federline in her life.

Spears' camp sounded the all-clear on the pending nuptials Friday.

Spears and Federline became an item in April. Per USA Today, the two first met in 2000 when they were on the same tour--she was the headlining act; he was dancing in the opening act. In the small-world department, Federline hoofed it up as one of Timberlake's dancers at the 2002 MTV Video Music Awards.

Currently, Spears is rehabbing a knee injured June 8 during a music-video shoot in New York City. Following arthroscopic surgery on the bum limb, Spears canceled the summer leg of her Onyx Hotel tour.

At the age of 22, the altar-bound Spears is running ahead of Jennifer Lopez, now on marriage number three at age 34, and behind Elizabeth Taylor, the most famously prolific celebrity bride.

Lopez didn't embark on her second marriage until the age of 31; Taylor did the first return trip down the aisle about a week shy of her 20th birthday.

For Spears to keep pace with Taylor, she'll have to wed and divorce Federline before she's 25, and then tear through six more husbands before retiring to her mansion with her pet Maltese.

In January, when a second Spears marriage was a hazy hypothetical, Cynthia R. Grosso, of the Charleston School of Protocol and Etiquette in South Carolina, told E! Online that the singer would not have to scale down any future ceremony because of her joke Vegas wedding.

"I think she's fine," Grosso said. "In other words, she can do whatever she wants. She doesn't have to follow the rules of a second marriage,"

Why start now?

Close

Today's Top News     Top Life News
Iraq sovereignty handover completed         Rules to target 'irresponsible' officials         Iraqi group threatens to behead US Marine         Proof sought to sue Japan over WWII weapon         Wu vows opener economic system         Lightning hits trees, kills 17 in Zhejiang	Oops! Britney to do marriage again       Internet a new venue for youth to flex muscles       Marriage, theme in gay pride parade       'Fahrenheit 9/11' a No. 1 hit across America       Video yoga a health hazard       Nasal vaccine nixes SARS virus multiplying