Usher surprised at bad wedding coverage

Usher was surprised by the amount of negative press that he got for his recent wedding to his pregnant girlfriend, Tameka Foster.

The singer married Foster in August at his lawyer's office in Atlanta, but a week earlier he had cancelled plans to hold a glitzy showbiz wedding at music mogul Antonio 'LA' Reid’s Sagaponack New York home.

The cancellation of the initial planned wedding led to media reports claiming that the wedding had been called off because his stylist partner did not get along with Usher's mother, Jonetta Patton.

Usher told US magazine Essence: "It was like, 'Wow!' (Getting married) and having a child is something that everyone should celebrate. What's happened to us as a culture and a people?"