New York, NY – Since the news of their wedding emerged all over the industry, media outlets have been dying to get the scoop on the whole story for the past week. Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon waited for the right time to confirm any actual marriage with the media. When they finally went public, they gave People magazine an official photo from their wedding in the Bahamas and in turn the highly publicized magazine gave them the front cover. Recently, MC went onto The Ellen DeGeneres Show to discuss her wedding and her relationship with Nick Cannon.

To conceal their wedding plans from their friends and the media, they subliminally told their guests that the rendezvous in the Bahamas was just a video shoot. This is how they invited their selected few guests to the quaint beach ceremony. She told Ellen what role her friends played in the wedding and their choice for the spot of the wedding.

“We wanted to be at the beach, we didn’t want other people taking pictures, because we both experienced the hoopla of trying to make something into, like, a publicity stunt, which is what everybody thinks and will think anyway. We don’t really care about that mentality. Instead of trying to be like, ‘You’re invited, but shhh, don’t tell anybody,’ we’re just going to have another [wedding ceremony] next year. [Nick’s] plan is to have one every year.”

There were even reports of them getting tattoos to commemorate the wedding, as it was Nick’s idea. MC’s tattoo is a small butterfly on her lower back with the initials etched MC on bottom which stood for ‘Mrs. Cannon,’ while Nick has large tattoo across his back etched as Mariah. Interestingly enough, Ellen was quick to point out that ‘MC’ could stand for her initials if the marriage should fail. MC told Ellen, “That’s so mean.”

MC went on to discuss how the tattoo situation came about and how she felt at the time of receiving her first one:

“I never had a tattoo before, and it’s his first tattoo also, that’s why it was a big deal. I fell asleep during my tattoo. People were like, ‘What?’ I was gangsta for that, a little bit.”

She continued to explain to Ellen her deepest feeling about Nick Cannon and how she incorporated her youth and her parents’ divorce as what she doesn’t want to happen:

“My parents divorced when I was 3 and I didn’t have many examples of what was the ‘norm, but I found the right person.”

At press time, her newlywed husband can be seen in her new video ‘Bye, Bye’ in which he has his own cameo pressing deeper into their now public relationship.