Second time’s the attraction! Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck celebrated their marriage — once more — with assist from family and friends.
Forward of their Saturday, August 20 vows, Affleck, 50, and Lopez, 53, deliberate an enormous affair on the Good Will Searching star’s Riceboro, Georgia, property. The weekend received off to a rocky begin with Affleck’s mother, Christopher Anne Boldt, being taken to a Savannah-area hospital by way of ambulance on Friday, August 19, per the Day by day Mail. She was discharged later that day and escorted dwelling by each her son and daughter-in-law.
Nonetheless, the medical situation was solely a short hiccup within the get together plans. Celebrities reminiscent of Matt Damon, Kevin Smith and extra have been noticed touchdown on the airport in Savannah, Georgia, forward of the occasion.
The Hustlers actress and the Oscar winner tied the knot in Las Vegas final month after getting engaged in April for the second time. The New York Metropolis native confirmed the milestone in a July 17 situation of her “On the JLo” e-newsletter.
“We did it. Love is gorgeous. Love is sort. And it seems love is affected person. Twenty years affected person,” the Selena star wrote on the time, hours after Us Weekly confirmed that she and the Argo director had made it official. “[The wedding was] precisely what we wished. Final evening we flew to Vegas, stood in line for a license with 4 different {couples}, all making the identical journey to the marriage capital of the world.”
Shortly after the low-key ceremony, an insider informed Us that the duo deliberate to have a bigger celebration afterward with an even bigger group of their family and friends. Their option to elope, the supply famous, was a very long time coming.
“Jen and Ben have talked about eloping for months now and it felt proper for them,” the insider informed Us. “[They] have each already had large weddings beforehand, so the pageantry isn’t as necessary to them because it as soon as was.”
Days after their Sin Metropolis nuptials, the pair jetted off to Paris for a honeymoon, a part of which they loved with their youngsters. Lopez shares twins Max and Emme, 14, with ex-husband Marc Anthony. Affleck, for his half, shares daughters Violet, 16, and Seraphina, 13, and son Samuel, 10, with ex-wife Jennifer Garner.
The “Get Proper” songstress and the Justice League star beforehand dated from 2002 to 2004 after connecting on the set of their film Gigli. The pair have been set to wed in September 2003, however they known as off the ceremony resulting from “extreme media consideration” and broke up 4 months later.
The twosome reconnected in 2021 following Lopez’s cut up from ex-fiancé Alex Rodriguez. The Shades of Blue alum and the Good Will Searching screenwriter made their romance Instagram official in July 2021, making their crimson carpet debut collectively two months later on the Venice Worldwide Movie Pageant.
“Ben and Jen [felt] so shut to one another in a short time,” a supply solely informed Us in Might 2021. “The previous flame is totally rekindled. They picked up the place they left off by way of affection for one another. … They each respect and belief one another.”
