Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck were married in a bus chapel in Las Vegas Saturday night, culminating in a relationship that spanned two decades in two separate romances and topped countless tabloid covers.
Lopez announced her marriage Sunday in her fan bulletin, On the J Lo, titled “We Did.” Lopez initially made public his commitment in April in the same bulletin.
“Love is beautiful. Love is kind. And it turns out that love is patient. Twenty years of patient,” Jennifer Lynn Affleck wrote in a message.
Lopez wrote that the couple flew to Las Vegas on Saturday, lined up to get the license with four other couples, and married shortly after midnight at the Little White Chapel, a chapel that had a “tunnel of the love “.
Lopez said a Bluetooth speaker made his brief walk down the hallway.
“They were right when they said,‘ All you need is love. ’We are so grateful to have this in abundance, a wonderful new family of five amazing children and a life we have never had more reason to look forward to,” he wrote.
“Stay long enough and you may find the best time of your life on a walk through Las Vegas at 12:30 in the morning and in the tunnel of love, with your children and with whom you will spend forever. love is a fantastic thing, maybe the best of things, and it’s worth the wait. “
The news of their wedding first spread Sunday after the Clark County Secretary’s office in Nevada showed the couple obtained a marriage license that was processed Saturday. The presentation of the marriage license showed that Lopez was taking the name Jennifer Affleck.
Affleck representatives declined to comment.
Lopez, 52, and Affleck, 49, became famous in the early 2000s, and spawned the nickname “Bennifer,” before reactivating their romance last year. They previously starred together in Gigli in 2003 and Jersey Girl in 2004. Around that time, they got engaged, but never married, citing “excessive media attention” in a statement announcing that it would be postponed. .
“When we found ourselves seriously contemplating hiring three separate‘ decoy brides ’in three different places, we realized something was wrong,” the couple said in a joint statement in 2004, before separating.
Affleck married Jennifer Garner in 2005, with whom he shares three children. They divorced in 2018.
Lopez has been married three times before. She briefly married Ojani Noa between 1997 and 1998 and Cris Judd between 2001 and 2003. She and singer Marc Anthony married for a decade after the wedding in 2004 and share 14-year-old twins together.