Britney Spears tied the knot with Kevin Federline on September 18, 2004. Federline had worked as a backing dancer for a number of top pop acts, and the pair announced their engagement in July of 2004. Britney and Kevin had initially planned an October 16 wedding, but decided to hold a very small private ceremony weeks earlier after media attention got out of hand. "I just thought it would be too much if we had done it when we were supposed to," Spears told People after the event. "It became this huge thing and I was like, 'What are we waiting for? We know this is the real thing, why not just do it now?' That's why I wanted to sneak and do it our little way."Britney filed for divorce on November 7, 2006, citing irreconcilable differences.