Get the tissues ready. Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck’s “achingly beautiful” wedding vows apparently had guests in tears. Close friend Kevin Smith, who directed the couple in the early aughts rom-com Jersey Girl, said the wedding was “emotional as hell.” “I was crying like an old woman at a wedding… like my mother at a wedding,” Kevin told Extra TV a few days after J-Lo and Ben’s wedding in August. “Honestly, like, one of the most romantic moments I’ve engaged with in my life, and it wasn’t even my romantic moment.” He added: “He’s one of my favorite writers on the planet,” Kevin also said to the outlet. “So, I got to hear Ben at his absolutely most eloquent, who was not trying to entertain.
Most of us writers are always thinking about an audience to entertain… This dude wrote vows, they both wrote vows for each other, and they were achingly beautiful.
I’m telling you; this wedding would’ve made the most hardcore cynic believe in true love. It was exquisite. It was insanely well done, very classy and stuff, but emotional as hell.
I cried throughout the whole thing.” Jason Mewes, who worked with the couple on the film Gigli (the film that brought the couple together), said he had a similar but not quite as dramatic response to the couple’s vows. “It was pretty spectacular, and it was sweet to be invited because it was a big wedding, but it was small,” Mewes told Extra TV. “I didn’t cry like Kevin did.
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