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Little Scream married into the Arcade Fire family last weekend.

The Montreal singer-songwriter, whose real name is Laurel Sprengelmeyer, got hitched with Arcade Fire’s red-headed giant Richard Reed Parry. She informed me of the news when I picked up the phone for our interview Monday afternoon.

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It felt almost intrusive to be thrust into such intimate surroundings, but Sprengelmeyer broke the ice, recounting the events of the previous few days as if I were a friend who had just dropped by and she was bringing me up to speed.

“There were loads of people in from all over the world,” she said from Galena, Ill., where her parents live. “It’s just the tail end of them now — we’re out having tea and seeing people off. Now we’re going to go through dealing with boxes of wet wedding items, and the cleanup.”

OK, well, since she brought it up, how was it?

“Oh my god, I can’t even describe it. We’ve run out of superlatives. It was pure magic, gorgeous, with lots of serendipity. Neither Richard nor I are big planners — we actually dislike planning. So when it comes to planning a wedding, with 200-some people coming together …