The groom’s green room! Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez exchanged vows in a no-frills wedding — and they even kept their preparation casual.The Argo director, 49, and the Grammy nominee, 52, obtained a marriage license in Clark County, Nevada, on Saturday, July 16, and tied the knot in a small Sin City ceremony.
While describing the special day in her “On the JLo” newsletter, the bride gave fans a glimpse of how she and Affleck got ready to walk down the aisle.“We barely made it to the little white wedding chapel by midnight.
They graciously stayed open late a few minutes,” Lopez wrote, noting that she wore “a dress from an old movie.” For his part, Affleck donned “a jacket from [his] closet.”The “Marry Me” songstress called it the “best night of our lives,” giving the venue a shout-out for “letting me use the break room to change while Ben changed in the men’s room.”Video footage accompanied the newsletter, showing Affleck recording with his cell phone in the chapel’s bathroom. “And this, was my wedding changing area,” he narrated as he pointed the camera at the mirror.Lopez and the Gone Girl actor were previously engaged in the early aughts, but they called off their romance before they ever wed.
The twosome rekindled their relationship in April 2021 following Lopez’s split from fiancé Alex Rodriguez, and Affleck proposed nearly one year later.The pair’s Vegas wedding was very different from the nuptials they planned 20 years ago, which would have hosted hundreds of guests. “They both are so comfortable with each other and make each other so happy, so they don’t want to wait any longer,” a source exclusively told Us Weekly of the intimate ceremony. “They both thought it was a fun and casual way to tie the knot.”One
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