She raved about having her kids as "the best witnesses you could ever imagine" and revealed that she got married in a "dress from an old movie."
Jennifer Lopez got married to Ben Affleck and has a new last name.
In a newsletter sent out on Sunday, July 17, 2022, the singer, 52, who wed Ben Affleck, 49, over the weekend, concluded, "With love, Mrs. Jennifer Lynn Affleck." According to the marriage license obtained by PEOPLE, Lopez intends on using Affleck's last name as her own.
Benjamin Geza Affleck is listed as Party 1 and Jennifer Lopez is listed as Party 2 on a marriage license filed with the Clark County Clerk's Office. The "new name" section for Party 1 contains nothing, however, Party 2's "new name" is "Jennifer Affleck."
The Grammy Award nominee shared some candid photos from her wedding with the Academy Award winner, 49, in her On the JLo newsletter.
"We did it," she prefaced in the newsletter. "Love is beautiful. Love is kind. And it turns out love is patient. Twenty years patient. Exactly what we wanted. Last night we flew to Vegas, stood in line for a license with four other couples, all making the same journey to the wedding capital of the world."
"We barely made it to the little white wedding chapel by midnight. They graciously stayed open late a few minutes, let us take pictures in a pink Cadillac convertible, evidently once used by the king himself (but if we wanted Elvis himself to show, that cost extra and he was in bed)," Lopez added.
She raved about having her kids as "the best witnesses you could ever imagine" and revealed that she got married in a "dress from an old movie."
"We read our own vows in the little chapel and gave one another the rings we'll wear for the rest of our lives. They even had Bluetooth for a (short) march down the aisle. But in the end it was the best possible wedding we could have imagined," Lopez wrote.
"When love is real, the only thing that matters in marriage is one another and the promise we make to love, care, understand, be patient, loving and good to one another. We had that. And so much more. Best night of our lives," the bride wrote.
"They were right when they said, 'all you need is love.' We are so grateful to have that in abundance, a new wonderful family of five amazing children and a life that we have never had more reason to look forward to."
A source previously told PEOPLE the pair had a "super, super small" ceremony, adding: "They just wanted to be married so they got married," an insider shared.
The marriage certificate—which has to be filed within 10 days of the ceremony—wasn't filed as of Sunday afternoon.
Lopez and Affleck started dating in July 2002. The couple got engaged in November that year, but only a few days before their September 2003 wedding, they decided to call it off. In the end, they decided to break off their engagement in January 2004.
In 2021, the couple rekindled their romance and announced their engagement in April 2022.
"We have been in the game in the public eye long enough to know who we are as people and what really matters and what doesn't matter. We have kids and we respect each other. ... We really live our lives in a way we can be proud of and our kids can be proud of you. We're just operating from a place of love and respect for everyone in our lives and that is very important to us. We know what the truth is [and] we hold it sacred."
References:
https://people.com/movies/jennifer-lopez-and-ben-affleck-married/
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