Mariah Carey Connection

Less than two weeks after the wedding proposal, singer Mariah Carey, 39, and actor Nick Cannon, 27, are talking about their whirlwind affair.
“It was a love-at-first-sight thing. Since we’ve been together, we’ve been inseparable,” Cannon tells the next issue of People, on stands Friday.

On April 30, just five days after he popped the question on the rooftop of her New York apartment building, the two were walking down the aisle on a white carpet at sunset at the beach on her estate in the Bahamas. He wore Balenciaga. She wore an off-white dress by Nile Cmylo. “And (Christian) Louboutins — I can wear high heels with Nick because he’s tall. Flats are not in my repertoire,” she says.

The two, who met at the 2005 Teen Choice Awards, began dating in late March. At the time, they had begun shooting the video for her single Bye Bye. He was cast as the romantic lead. “From the first time we sat down to discuss the video at the Beverly Hills Hotel, we connected. … I was able to be myself with her,” he says. “We are both eternally 12 years old.”

Some friends knew the couple were getting serious, she says. “One thing (few people) knew was we got tattoos a few weeks earlier. So anyone who saw my (”Mrs. Cannon”) tattoo wasn’t surprised,” she says.

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“To me rings are special and exciting, but tattoos mean more than anything. They’re forever and ever,” says Cannon, who has “Mariah” tattooed on his back.

And what about children? “It’s part of the whole purpose of getting married,” Carey says. “I’d just want our children to have the best childhood and upbringing they possibly could.”

Source: USA Today