Pregnant Paltrow Marries!

It's official: Gwyneth Paltrow has managed do what old flame Ben Affleck couldn't. Get married under the radar.

The clerk-recorder-assessor's office in Santa Barbara confirmed Wednesday it had a record of a matrimonial done deal between the pregnant Paltrow, 31, and Coldplay boyfriend and father-to-be Chris Martin, 26.

If officials couldn't reveal specifics (When? Where? Was Madonna invited?), media wags are happy to dish the details.

Per reports, the hush-hush ceremony went down last Friday in Santa Barbara, the same locale that Affleck and fiancée Jennifer Lopez targeted for their summer nuptials before canceling the event on account of, they said, too much publicity.

According to People and other published reports, Paltrow not only evaded the press, but family (including actress mom Blythe Danner), friends, and even the M One. The Oscar-winning actress with a penchant for British accents purportedly exchanged vows with the British-born rock star in an ultra-private, 10-minute ceremony held at a "secluded bungalow on the grounds of a...hotel," in the words of the Chicago Sun-Times.

The couple are now in Honeymoon Central at the posh hotel, Las Ventanas al Paraiso (translation: "window to paradise"), in the Mexican resort town of Cabo San Lucas, the New York Post said. However, a source tells E! Online that the newlyweds are at a different area resort called Esperanza.

On Wednesday, Paltrow's publicist, Steven Huvane, did not confirm, nor deny, the marriage reports, which have been escalating since a Santa Barbara County official blabbed last week that the actress and rock star had forked over $70 for a marriage license.

The marriage is the first for both. Paltrow previously was linked with the likes of Affleck and Brad Pitt, her onetime fiancé.

It was just one week ago that Paltrow and Martin revealed they were with child, and expecting a delivery next summer. The nuptials reputedly occurred two days after their baby-on-board announcement.

No less than Affleck has wished Paltrow well on her new life. "She had a really tough year," he tells the new People. "And it's so wonderful to see somebody get some happiness."

Paltrow and Martin hooked up last fall--they met at a Coldplay gig in London's Wembley Stadium--shortly after Paltrow's father, director/producer Bruce Paltrow, died of throat cancer.

"This is all very weird because she's a big Hollywood star, and I'm just the bloke from Coldplay," Martin was quoted as telling London's Sun in November 2002, shortly after the two began dating, but before the rocker felt he could officially call Paltrow his girlfriend.

Last week on NBC's Tonight Show, Paltrow demonstrated similar caution. She told host Jay Leno that she didn't like to talk too much about the pregnancy--"the Jewish part of me is superstitious."

"I touch wood, and I pinch my stomach--it's a good-luck thing," she told Leno. "Now there's a lot more to pinch."

If paparazzi pics are any indication, all appears to be well so far with the upcoming Paltrow-Martin collaboration. A shot of the two leaving her baby doctor's office in Manhattan last week depicts the couple as smiling, relaxed and in full-on cuddling mode.

Paltrow recently told the BBC that she'd spent the last year, in the wake of her father's death, prioritizing.

"I thought, from now on I want to do things that are worth my time," she said. "Get something out of your life and make your life worth something."

Paltrow, who claimed the 1998 Best Actress Oscar for Shakespeare in Love, most recently appeared as bummed-out poet Sylvia Plath in the biopic, Sylvia. Martin's Coldplay received two Grammy nominations last week, including a Record of the Year nod for "Clocks."