recent YORK (AFP) ??” Marrying Britney Spears was a "cool" idea that quickly became a very great mistake.

recent YORK (AFP) ??” Marrying Britney Spears was a "cool" idea that quickly became a very great mistake, the singer's 48-hour husband Jason Alexander said in an interview.

Spears and Alexander, the two 22, filed for an annulment just hours after tying the knot Saturday in Las Vegas.

Alexander, a childhood friend of Spears, said the brace had gone to the Nevada uninhabited gambling resort on the whip of the moment to celebrate the novel Year and had found themselves in a tavern room in the early hours of Saturday morning.

"We were looking revealed the windows and looking at the lights and the city. We were like, 'This is a real moderately beautiful beautiful night,'" Alexander, 22, told NBC television.

"It was dispassionate and we were looking at each other and we were like, 'Let's do something wild and crazy and let's make progress get married just for the hell of it.