It looks like a Vegas wedding was always on the cards for Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck. In fact, 20 years ago, during a trip to MTV’s “TRL,” Lopez mentioned a Las Vegas wedding to Carson Daly while she was first engaged to Affleck in 2002.
“How are you going to do a wedding?” Daly asks the pop star. “How will you try – is there an island deserted enough?”
“I don’t know,” Lopez replies.
After Daly suggests the couple use a private plane and get married mid-air, Lopez makes a proposal of his own. “Vegas,” she blurts out, effectively predicting Affleck’s marriage 20 years early.
While Lopez and Affleck tied the knot and held a surprise ceremony in Vegas just this past weekend, their nuptials had been years in the making, and the couple first got engaged in 2002.
Of course, as fans know, the couple never made it down the aisle and eventually split in 2004. The two married and welcomed children — Lopez with ex-husband Marc Anthony and Affleck with ex-wife Jennifer Garner — before they eventually rekindled their romance in 2021, when Lopez shared news of their engagement in April.
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Over the weekend, Lopez documented the wedding in the latest update to her J.Lo newsletter.
“We made it. Love is beautiful. Love is kind. And it turns out love is patient. Twenty years of patience,” the Marry Me actress said in her post, which features a glimpse of her dress and some BTS photos from the ceremony included.
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Lopez continued, “When love is real, the only thing that matters in marriage is loving, caring, understanding, patient, loving and good to each other and the promise we make to each other. We had. And so much more. The best night of our lives. Thank you Little White Wedding Chapel for allowing me to use the break room to change while Ben changed in the men’s room.”
The “I’m Real” singer ended her message by reflecting on their love and the intimate ceremony attended by their children.
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“They were right when they said, ‘All you need is love.’ We are so thankful to have that in abundance, a new wonderful family with five amazing children and a life we could never look forward to more,” she wrote. “Hang in there long enough and you might find the best moment of your life driving through Las Vegas at 12:30 am in the tunnel of love with your kids and the one you’ll spend eternity with.” Love is a great thing, maybe the best of things – and it’s worth waiting for.”
Wedding bliss isn’t quite over for Lopez and Affleck. “They will definitely be hosting a larger wedding ceremony and celebration that will be attended by close relatives, friends and loved ones,” a source told ET.
“They were in wedding planning mode but really just enjoying the now,” added the source. “They both planned things together, but Jen definitely has her own vision and is leading the wedding planning train.”
According to another source, the couple have plans for a bigger ceremony to “celebrate their love in a bigger way.”
To learn more about how they plan to keep the celebration going, watch the video below.
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