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Kanye West, Kim Kardashian attend Delaware wedding

Ryan Cormier
The News Journal
Kanye West and Kim Kardashian in New York in 2012.

How does rapper Kanye West prepare to headline both of this weekend's Made in America music festivals?

With a Delaware wedding, of course.

West was joined by his wife Kim Kardashian and their 1-year-old daughter North West at the University and Whist Club in Wilmington Saturday afternoon, hours before the superstar musician was scheduled to headline the Jay-Z-curated Budweiser Made in America Festival in Philadelphia, sources said.

The West family attended the wedding ceremony and stayed for lunch before leaving, one of the sources said. The relationship between West and the newlywed couple was not immediately known.

West is scheduled to perform on Benjamin Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia at 10:30 Saturday night as part of the third annual Labor Day weekend music festival. He will then fly back home to Los Angeles where he will headline Made in America's spin-off festival on Sunday night in Grand Park.

By 2:30 p.m. on Saturday, white chairs lined on the private club's lawn for the wedding were empty and only a few wedding guests remained. One departing guest who saw a photographer at the corner of Broom and W. Ninth streets slowed down and said, "He already left," before driving off.

The mid-day wedding wasn't West's first foray into Delaware.

Kanye West (right) poses with his cousin Andre and an unknown woman at the University of Delaware commencement in Newark in May 2011.

In 2004, West's tour for his debut album, "The College Dropout," brought him to the Bob Carpenter Center for a performance. In 2011, he returned to campus and attended the University of Delaware's commencement ceremony in support of a cousin who was graduating.

West's public visit to Delaware Stadium on graduation day three years ago caused a frenzy on Twitter with graduates and their families shooting off messages that West was in the crowd.

This time around, West and Kardashian avoided bringing too much attention to themselves during their quick Delaware drop-in.

By the time they left, there were only a handful of tweets about their under-the-radar visit. An excited @_ivelissss wrote, "Kim and Kanye in Delaware !!!!!"

Footage from West and Kardashian's own Italian wedding from three months ago will be featured in the season finale of "Keeping Up with the Kardashians" on E! Monday night at 9.

Kanye West performs at the Budweiser Made in America Festival on Saturday in Philadelphia.