“With love, Mrs. Jennifer Lynn Affleck.”
This is the signature affixed by Jennifer Lopez at the bottom of her
On the JLo newsletter,
sent to her fans on Sunday, July 17.
A virtual missive in which the singer announced that she had married Ben Affleck the day before - and that she had obviously adopted his surname.
"We did it," read the header of the email.
“Love is beautiful, has also written the artist.
Love is good.
And it turns out that love is patient.
In our case, he waited 20 years.”
Jennifer Lopez has indicated that the duo flew to Las Vegas, before going to the Little White Chapel, waiting a drive behind four other couples, crossing a "tunnel of love" and marry after midnight, on what was "the best night of their lives".
“Love is worth the wait”
The 50-year-old revealed that the Bennifers were able to "take pictures in a pink Cadillac convertible" once used by Elvis himself.
"(But if we wanted Elvis to show up in person, there was an extra charge and he was in bed)," the star clarified.
"They were right to say, 'All you need is love,'" she continued.
We are very grateful to have such a large family, made up of five amazing children, and a future life that we have never looked forward to so much.”
She added, "Wait long enough and you might find yourself in the best time of your life, driving through Las Vegas, through the tunnel of love, with your kids and whoever you'll spend the rest of your life with. existence.
Love is a great thing, perhaps the greatest of all, and worth the wait."
In video, Jennifer Lopez dances alongside Ben Affleck to the tunes of “Jenny from the Block”
two wedding dresses
A newsletter in which Jennifer Lopez also shared photos of the ceremony.
We see the couple taking a selfie together, Ben Affleck kissing the cheek of his bride or the interpreter of
Jenny From the Block
posing in a wedding dress.
The latter indicated that she had worn an outfit "worthy of an old film" and had had the "best witnesses she could dream of", namely her children.
Among the two dresses worn by the singer, was an immaculate outfit with bare shoulders and long sleeves, signed Zuhair Murad and embellished with a veil.
The artist then opted for a little white sleeveless dress, which she kept preciously for her wedding day, as she indicated in a video immortalized in her dressing room.
Ben Affleck wore an all-white suit.
“And this is where I changed for the wedding,” he joked in a video, after getting dressed in a public restroom with graffiti-covered mirrors.
Second chance
Jennifer Lopez then shared on her Instagram account a snapshot of her in bed, her finger adorned with her wedding ring.
Over the weekend,
People
magazine revealed that the duo got a marriage certificate and tied the knot in a "little ceremony."
Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck first met at the end of 2001 on the set of
Gigli
(in French,
Amours troubles
), before getting engaged the following year.
But they had broken off this engagement at the beginning of 2004, due to “excessive media attention”.
Everyone will then try to rebuild their lives.
Ben Affleck will marry Jennifer Garner, with whom he will have three children.
The duo will separate in 2015. In May 2021, Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck get back together, before getting engaged in April 2022, this time for good.