Mariah & Nick's Island Wedding

With just a few friends on hand (and four boxes of Maine lobster), surprise couple Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon tie the knot at a sunset ceremony on the beach in the Bahamas

Originally posted Thursday May 08, 2008 01:00 PM EDT

Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon Photo by: Goff / INF; Mitchell Levy / Rangefinder / Globe

They hadn't even gone public with their relationship – in fact, they had only recently begun seeing each other – when Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon decided to take the plunge. "We got tattoos!" says Carey. "His is on one shoulder to the other and it says 'Mariah.'" And hers? "It's on my lower back and it says 'Mrs. Cannon,'" she says. Only after that did they ink a marriage license – and pull off the...