Hometown Friends on Britney Spears Wedding

L A S   V E G A S, Jan. 6 -- While Britney Spears pulled off her own celebrity wedding without the expensive designer dress, the celebrity guest list or prying paparazzi trying to get the golden shot, she untied the knot in traditional celebrity fashion — as quickly and quietly as possible.

But what happens in Las Vegas doesn't stay in Las Vegas when you are Britney Spears.

The pop star's wedding resulted in a marriage that lasted just 55 hours, but the buzz surrounding her short-lived union with childhood friend Jason Alexander isn't likely to die down soon.

While Spears, who reportedly snuck out of the Palm Hotel in Las Vegas Monday morning, isn't talking, Alexander has tried to offer an explanation for the impulsive nuptials.

"We were in Las Vegas … we're sitting in the [hotel] room and we're like 'let's go do something, let's go get married," Alexander told the syndicated TV show Inside Edition

Alexander said he and Spears were perfectly sober when they decided to wed at about 5:30 a.m. Saturday at a Las Vegas wedding chapel.

Bonnie Fuller, the editorial director of Star magazine — which will publish a picture of Spears and Alexander receiving their marriage license — says the pop star's move has sent some of her fans into a state of panic.

"We went on the Britney fan Web sites and they were going wild," Fuller said on ABCNEWS' Good Morning America. "Many were disappointed in her. They wanted her to have a wonderful, lavish white wedding," Fuller said.

Hometown friends of Spears and Alexander, a junior at Southeastern Louisiana University in Hammond, La., say the short-lived marriage was just a fun joke, and nothing more.

"Good friends. That's all it is," said Jared Prescott of Kentwood. "We come from a small town, there's only one daycare and everybody knows everybody else. They were just good friends, never a couple."

Kent Smith, another one of Alexander's close friends, says the town is getting a lot of attention over the Las Vegas wedding and no one, including Alexander, is used to being in the spotlight.