After the abrupt cancellation of last weeks wedding in the Hamptons for Usher and his pregnant girlfriend Tameka Foster, they decided to tie the knot on Friday in a quiet civil ceremony in Atlanta. Despite the rumors that Usher’s mother disapproved of the nuptials and might have been one of the reasons for calling off the wedding last weekend, she was one of the few people in attendance for the ceremony.

Congratulations to the happy couple!

Usher Raymond and his pregnant fiancée Tameka Foster cancelled their nuptials last Saturday, but don’t count the couple out yet.

The singer exclusively tells Usmagazine.com that it’s only a matter of time before they walk down the aisle. “As of right now we don’t have a date but we will let you know when we do.”

The couple, who had scheduled their July 28 wedding at the Long Island home of music executive L.A. Reid, called off the ceremony at the last minute without explanation.

Multiple newspaper and online outlets speculated that the cancellation was due to bad blood between Foster and Usher’s mother, recent reports about Foster’s criminal past, and Foster’s resistance to signing a prenuptial agreement.

However, a source close to the couple dismisses the rumors.

“People are just hating,” says the insider, who reveals the real reason they postponed the wedding was due to a pre-term labor scare.

According to the Usher source, at noon on Friday, the four-months pregnant Foster was admitted to St. Vincent’s Medical Center in New York City after suffering cramping. But upon examination, says the source, “she learned it was just uneasiness brought on by the stress of the wedding.”

At that point, the singer decided to postpone the ceremony. But no worries.

“Everbody’s fine. Tameka and the baby are fine,” Usher himself told Usmagazine.com on July 30, after the couple arrived via private plane in NYC (and Us got the exclusive photo!).

Foster chimed: “We’re good. We’re all doing great now.”

Meanwhile, another friend of the couple assures Us that there will be an “I do” do-over in the future.

“There will be a second wedding ceremony,” the pal tells Us. “This is just a postponement. They are very much in love.”

Usher, 28, and Foster, 37, became engaged in January after a year of dating. The couple announced Foster’s pregnancy at the end of June. The baby will be Usher’s first child. Foster has three children from a previous marriage.

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“Usher’s mother [and former manager, Jonetta Patton, whom he fired in May] is against the wedding. That is one of the main obstacles,” according to the source, who also said of the bride, 37, and groom, 28: “They only decided two weeks ago to have a wedding. They wanted to have it take place before the baby bump started showing.”

But as another source tells PEOPLE: “Usher changed his mind.”

Usher (full name: Usher Raymond) and Foster, a stylist, also “had a lot of differences about the details. For example, the bride wanted barbeque, [and] he wanted to have [renowned chef] Jean Georges cook,” said the source.

As a result of the differences, the wedding “was on again off again for the past few days. [Foster] was calling it off because she wasn’t getting the things that she wanted. The mother was calling it off. … Usher was calling it off.”

On Saturday, only hours before the afternoon ceremony was to take place at the Southampton, N.Y., estate of music mogul L.A. Reid, Usher’s publicist Patti Webster issued the following statement: “It was announced today that the wedding ceremony for Usher Raymond IV and Tameka Foster was canceled. No additional information will be given regarding the circumstances of the cancellation, but we hope the privacy of this matter will be respected.”

According to the New York Post, the 70 to 100 guests who needed to be informed there was to be no wedding included couples Beyoncé and Jay Z, as well as Janet Jackson and Jermaine Dupri.

The paper also said Usher’s godfather, Broadway star Ben Vereen, had been removed from the guest list because of his view toward Foster, and that Usher’s mother had not been invited to begin with.

New York’s Daily News reports that Usher’s mother was invited at the last minute, though an unnamed source tells the paper she did not want to go.

“The tents were up,” an insider tells PEOPLE. “And they paid all of the people, the vendors, so that wasn’t an issue. … Hotel rooms were an issue. Janet [Jackson] was coming, but she had eight security people. Ashanti and Nelly were coming.”

The source added that it was a possibility that the wedding may still come off. On Saturday, however, Webster would not comment on whether Usher and Foster were still engaged or even remained a couple.

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Usher has been sentenced to community service and hit with a fine after being convicted of speeding. The hitmaker was pulled over by traffic police after being caught driving at 103 miles per hour in Georgia on July 4.

Bartow County Court Probate Judge Mitchell Scoggins ordered Usher to perform 20 hours of community service and fined him $425. After the ruling, Usher, 28, spent 30 minutes signing autographs inside the courthouse

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