Ed Sheeran JUST confirmed what lots of fans speculated ... he's hitched!

The singer wed longtime girlfriend Cherry Seaborn at the couple's Suffolk home back in December with only about 40 friends and family members in attendance. In other words, it was small and on the DL! And he's made the announcement just in time to coincide with the release of his new album No. 6 Collaborations Project.

During an interview with Charlamagne the God, Sheeran was explaining the lyrics to his single "remember the Name" and highlighted the part: “Watch how the lyrics in the songs might get twisted / My wife wears red, but looks better without the lipstick.”

Then when 'Magne took note and asked if Sheeran had tied the knot, Ed replied, “It was actually before me and Cherry got married and I knew that we’d be married by the point that the song came out. I thought] Someone’s gonna hear that and be like, ‘Oh, they’re married!’ I didn’t know how that would be construed, but obviously it’s already come out.”

And everyone thought Sheeran's collab with Justin Bieber was about JB and Hailey getting married, but check this: "Bieber just got married. I’d just got married. That song is about being at an industry event with the woman you love, or the person you love, and kind of being like, ‘F— this, let’s just have fun ourselves.’"

This is so cute -- Ed and Cherry have known each other since they were 11! Of course a relationship blossomed much later and then Ed proposed January of last year.