After a video from Jennifer Lopez Affleck’s second wedding to hubby Ben Affleck was leaked to the press, the actor/singer/producer/dancer told fans that she would share the details of her special day on her own terms—in her “On the JLo” newsletter. And she didn’t disappoint. Who needs a blurry cellphone video of J.Lo serenading her beloved when you can get it all straight from the source herself?
On September 1, almost two weeks after her second celebration with family and friends in Georgia, Lopez Affleck spilled the details, starting with a romantic line from Ben’s wedding speech, which he happened to recycle from Live By Night, a movie he wrote in 2016: “This is heaven. Right Here. We’re in it now.” Of course, J.Lo didn’t mind the repeat. “I thought…how perfect,” she recalls.
Like any good rom com, the wedding day was not with out its tense moments.“It had rained at sunset every day that week. Everyone was worried about the heat, the aptly named ‘love bugs,’ the details, would the guests all arrive on time, etc.—not to mention the thunder and lightning that arrived almost on cue each day at the exact time the ceremony was supposed to start that Saturday,” Lopez Affleck writes, setting the scene. She recalls that many of her party were also recovering from a stomach bug during the week leading up to the wedding, among other “unexpected setbacks”—like, maybe, a medical emergency which required an ambulance.
J.Lo was not deterred: “The truth is, I never had one doubt. All week I felt the calm and easy certainty that we were in God’s hands…”
God delivered. The weather was perfect, the singer Marc Cohn agreed to serenade the pair with his song “True Companion”—which they had first chosen as the ideal wedding song nearly 20 years ago—and all five of the couple’s children from past relationships walked down the aisle ahead of the bride.
