After 55 hours of marital madness and publicity gone wild, Britney Spears and temporary husband Jason Allen Alexander decided to scrap "I do" for "I wish I hadn't."
She didn't get a ring or a fairy-tale wedding.
And he didn't get any of her fortune.
But the 22-year-olds did forever etch themselves in the annals of ill-advised Las Vegas marriages.
Talk about whirlwind. The two might have performed the quickest marriage-to-annulment escapade in the history of Sin City.
"That was fast," said attorney Brian J. Steinberg, who practices family law in Las Vegas.
"I'm not even sure they had time to have sex," he said.
Clark County Family Court Judge Lisa M. Brown signed the annulment order on Monday at 12:24pm at the behest of prominent Las Vegas attorney David Chesnoff.
"There is no marriage now," Chesnoff said.
"Jason agreed to this completely. They've made a wise decision," he said.
"I know they care about each other. They are friends," he added.
It took the judge about two hours to act on the "complaint for annulment" filed in Family Court shortly after 10am.
"Plaintiff Spears lacked understanding of her actions to the extent that she was incapable of agreeing to the marriage," the annulment petition said.
Spears married Alexander -- who hails from Spears' hometown of Kentwood, Louisiana -- at about 5:30am on Saturday at a Las Vegas wedding chapel.
She was not intoxicated during the ceremony, according to a friend who spoke to her several hours later.
She woke up that morning a "little stunned" that she tied the knot, according to the friend, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
Alexander said he and Spears hatched the idea to get hitched early Saturday morning.
"It was just crazy, man," he told "Access Hollywood" in an interview at his home on Monday.
"And we were just looking at each other and said, `Let's do something wild, crazy. Let's go get married, just for the hell of it,'" he said.
According to the petition, "Before entering into the marriage the plaintiff and defendant did not know each other's likes and dislikes, each other's desires to have or not have children, and each other's desires as to state of residency."
"Upon learning of each other's desires, they are so incompatible that there was a want of understanding of each other's actions in entering into this marriage," it said.
Steinberg said the longer the two waited, the more difficult it would have been to secure an annulment.
"The only reason they are getting it done so quickly is that both parties agree," he said.
"I can imagine there are reasons to getting this thing done lickety-split," he said.
"If you don't, the longer you let this thing sit the more it could turn contested," he said.
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