ONE MONTH after tying the knot in a shotgun Las Vegas ceremony, Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck have done it all again.
The newlyweds celebrated their matrimony with a three-day weekend bash — and it was a rambunctious affair, Page Six reports.
The affair — a full weekend celebration held at Affleck’s estate in Riceboro, Georgia — kicked off with a rehearsal dinner on Friday, with the actual ceremony taking place on Saturday. The festivities concluded with a barbecue and picnic on Sunday.
The weekend was a relatively private affair, with only several photos released to the press and minimal paparazzi shots taken. However, one video did make it into the public eye. A clip in which Lopez serenades her husband with a seemingly unreleased song, with several backup dancers in tow, began circulating the internet following their wedding.
It is unclear who captured the video or how it got out, but some fans took to Instagram to speculate over whether it was a mistake or a PR stunt. J.Lo herself took to the comments to set the record straight.
“This was taken without permission. Period,” she wrote.
“Whoever did it took advantage of our private moment. I don’t know where you all are getting it from because we had NDAs and asked everyone not to share anything from our wedding. That is our choice to share.”
Although the video was not released by the couple, Lopez has shared some other tidbits about their lavish nuptials. Below, discover everything else we know about Mr. and Mrs. Affleck’s second wedding.
Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck gave guests a sweet gift following the wedding
With the megawatt star power of Lopez and Affleck combined, it comes as no surprise that their second wedding’s guest list was jam-packed with A-listers.Friends like Matt Damon and his wife Luciana Barroso; director Kevin Smith and his wife Jennifer;Actor Jason Mewes, film producer Jordan Monsanto; and talent agent Patrick Whitesell and his wife, model Pia Miller, were in attendance, perPeople.
Given that many of the stars made trips from interstate for the celebration, it was only fitting that Lopez and Affleck gave them a “special” present as a thank you.
The newlyweds gifted attendees customised chocolate boxes, sending the sweets to guests who were staying in a nearby hotel. However, some packages were delivered to the wrong rooms, with unsuspecting tourists receiving a box of chocolates branded with hummingbird motifs and the couple’s initials, “J” and “B”.
“I’m staying at a hotel in Savannah this weekend and we got Ben and Jen choccy,” an anonymous user wrote in toInstagram celebrity gossip account Deuxmoi.
“Thank you so much for making our wedding weekend celebration so special. Sweet dreams, J & B,” read the note that accompanied the delivery.
In addition to the celebrity line up, the couple’s children were also part of the festivities. Lopez shares 14-year-old twins Max and Emme Muñiz with ex-husband Marc Anthony, and Affleck shares three children with ex-wifeJennifer Garner: 16-year-old Violet Affleck, 13-year-old Seraphina Affleck, and 10-year-old Samuel Affleck.
Who designed Jennifer Lopez’s wedding dress?
J.Lo walked down the aisle in a custom couture wedding dress by Ralph Lauren.
The gown featured short sleeves, a modest neckline, and a textured circular train. She also wore a 20-foot veil that all five of the couple’s children helped to carry down the white aisle after the ceremony.
Who is the Afflecks’ wedding planner?
The couple hired Colin Cowie, a luxury event planner with a history of dealing with an A-list client roster, perPage Six. Cowie has worked with the likes of Oprah Winfrey, Kim Kardashian, Jerry Seinfeld, Michael Jordan, and Nicole Kidman. The outlet reported that his services can cost anywhere from $25,000 to $25 million.
Cowie and his team had aimed to create a “glamorous, sophisticated and tasteful backyard wedding,” according toPage Six, “a royal wedding of epic proportions.” And if the photos are anything to go by, they delivered, indeed.
Will Jennifer Lopez share more details of her second wedding to Ben Affleck?
We can only hope that Lopez will document the affair as she did the pair’s Vegas nuptials.
The singer shared intimate details from her Vegaswedding to Affleck, along with photos of herself in her two wedding dresses. She wrote the following of the ceremony itself inher On the JLo newsletter:
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. Behind us two men held hands and held each other. In front of us, a young couple who made the three hour drive from Victorville on their daughter’s second birthday—all of us wanting the same thing— for the world to recognize us as partners and to declare our love to the world through the ancient and nearly universal symbol of marriage.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).So with the best witnesses you could ever imagine, a dress from an old movie and a jacket from Ben’s closet, 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. One we dreamed of long ago and one made real (in the eyes of the state, Las Vegas, a pink convertible and one another) at very, very long last.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. Thank you to the Little White Wedding chapel for letting me use the break room to change while Ben changed in the men’s room.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. Stick around long enough and maybe you’ll find the best moment of your life in a drive through in Las Vegas at twelve thirty in the morning in the tunnel of love drive through, with your kids and the one you’ll spend forever with. Love is a great thing, maybe the best of things—and worth waiting for.
A version of this article originally appeared on Harper’s BAZAAR.
