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Singer Jennifer Lopez and actor Ben Affleck tied the knot on Saturday in Las Vegas. This happened more than two decades after the newlyweds first met while filming the romantic comedy Gigli, reports CNN.
According to CNN the couple married Saturday night in a small, private ceremony in Las Vegas. Jennifer herself confirmed their Vegas wedding in her statement on Sunday, ending with her new last name: Mrs. Jennifer Lynn Affleck.
“We did it,” Jennifer began with a touching message to her fans. “Love is beautiful. Love is kind. And it turns out love is patient. Twenty years patient.” she wrote in a statement shared via her fan page.
The happy bride said the occasion was “exactly what we wanted”. “We flew to Vegas last night, stood in line for a marriage certificate with four other couples, all made the same journey to the wedding capital of the world,” Lopez said, adding that they didn’t make it to the ceremony until around midnight in a small white wedding chapel. who graciously moved the closing time for them.
“Behind us, two men held hands. In front of us, a young couple who had made the three-hour drive from Victorville for their daughter’s second birthday – we all wanted the same thing – for the world to recognize us as partners and express our love to the world through an ancient and the almost universal symbol of marriage,” Jen wrote, revealing at least a few details from their celebratory moment together.
The singer went on to write in the statement that she was wearing a dress from an old movie and Ben was wearing a jacket that he took from his closet. “We read our own vows in a small chapel and gave each other rings that we will wear for the rest of our lives,” the statement read. “In the end, it was the best possible wedding we could have imagined,” added Jennifer.
Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck have officially tied the knot, a source close to Lopez tells CNN. https://t.co/FTIVtsfUaZ
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The couple first met in December 2001 while filming the romantic comedy Gigli. Filming brought them so close that a friendship arose between them, which soon grew into true love, and the couple announced their engagement in November 2002. But they postponed the wedding in September 2003, citing the “excessive media attention” surrounding their celebration. In January 2004, they officially called off their engagement.
Jennifer and Ben have been looking for their way back to each other for 17 long years. The actor proposed to the singer again this April, while she was relaxing in the hot tub.
“I was completely taken aback and I was just looking into his eyes, smiling and crying at the same time trying so hard to understand that this is happening again after 20 years, I was literally speechless and he said, ‘Is that true?'” I said YES, of course it is YES,” Jennifer wrote in her statement.
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