What's newlywed Chantal Kreviazuk's secret for a happy marriage? Well, that's probably a secret.

The Winnipeg singer-songwriter and her fiancee, Our Lady Peace frontman Raine Maida, tied the knot in Toronto last weekend in a ceremony so private, even her mother has to keep mum about the happy event.

"It was wonderful," Carole Kreviazuk said yesterday. "But, like I said, I'm not allowed to talk about it. This is the way Chantal and Raine want it, and we have to respect their wishes."

The hush-hush aspect of the affair didn't come as a surprise to people who know the couple. Kreviazuk told The Sun back in October that details of the marriage proposal were personal -- "Let's just say it was lovely" -- and she intended to keep her and Maida's relationship private.

"I totally understand why this society is geared to be curious about artists' personal lives. For some strange reason, we all believe that this can't be it, that there has to be more, so we end up putting a little more curiousity on what other people have and what they're doing," she said.

"I think it's deranged and silly, but it is the state of the situation."

Chris Kerr, Kreviazuk's manager in Los Angeles, followed the post-nuptial party line yesterday, saying she had no knowledge of honeymoon plans except to say, "I doubt that they can be reached. All I can tell you is that I can confirm that they got married."

In Toronto, Amber Meredith, a spokeswoman at Canadian rockers Our Lady Peace and Kreviazuk's record label Sony Music Canada, said she couldn't even discuss whether the wedding was held Saturday or Sunday -- although an equally discreet guest says it was Sunday.

But Meredith confirmed Kreviazuk, 26, will perform New Year's Eve with Holly Cole at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa, where Our Lady Peace also has a New Year's gig at the Corel Centre.

"Wherever they may be, the nation's capitol will see them New Year's Eve," she said.

Kreviazuk, who's lived in Toronto since 1996, worked with Maida on her recent album Colour Moving And Still, on which the track Until We Die was written as a gift to her betrothed and she doesn't rule out performing with him in the future.

"He appears on the record, we wrote together and he has a slight production credit," she said.

"Performing together? Who knows? Maybe so. But I have no intentions at this moment. There's never been a discussion about that. Things between him and I are so natural and uncontrived and if that was to happen, I'm sure it would be very natural as well."

Kreviazuk praised Maida for helping ground her from the potentially dizzying aspects of show biz, saying he doesn't even like to see her in makeup after a photo shoot or a promotional appearance.

"(He) will say, 'What's with the goop?' and I'll say, "I did a so-and-so.' And he's like: 'So what? I don't understand.' "

Kreviazuk says their relationship will make her even more cautious about marketing her music with the sexy images currently saturating the magazine stands and MuchMusic videos.

"I have a responsibility, not only to my parents but now to my husband," she said.

"And how I present myself is very reflective of that, because I'm not available and I don't want to look available."

Nice day for a white wedding

The bride wore white.

Toronto fashion designer Joelffer Caoc, who sometimes loans songstress Chantal Kreviazuk clothes for photo shoots, says he missed the nuptials last weekend but designed a coverup to go with Kreviazuk's wedding dress.

"I just made a cape. It was a one-armed, velvet, white asymmetrical cape," says Caoc, adding he didn't see the bridal dress himself.

"She talked to me about the dress and asked my opinion. I know it was pure white and it was quite simple."

Caoc, who has a store, Misura By Joelffer Caoc, on Toronto's Spadina Street, says Kreviazuk picked up the cape Friday and is on a honeymoon but he's not saying where.

"Because she's a personal friend, I don't discuss what we talk about."

- With files from Randall King

By: Pat St. Germain