Inside Jennifer Lopez And Ben Affleck's Reception. Bonus - Wedding Pics
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"Ben and I laughed the night before about getting married again at our age," wrote JLo
Jennifer Lopez married Ben Affleck last month and she shared details from the dreamy wedding on her newsletter, along with some stunning pictures from the wedding, the reception, the rehearsal dinner and the day after the wedding. She began the newsletter with these words: "This is heaven. Right Here. We're in it now," which happen to be Jennifer Lopez's favourite line from Live By Night, directed and written by Ben Affleck. Vividly describing the wedding weekend, Jennifer Lopez wrote: "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. Oh, and all of us caught a stomach bug and were recuperating 'til late in the week, that, and along with a few other unexpected setbacks, had all the makings of a doozie of a wedding weekend."
For the wedding, Ben and JLo picked Marc Cohn's True Companion "as the perfect wedding love song in this very house more than twenty years ago." She added, "The truth is, I never had one doubt. All week I felt the calm and easy certainty that we were in God's hands."
What happened next, "At six forty-five, Saturday, August twentieth, the sun broke free and cast its rays like little diamonds dancing across the river behind the makeshift altar in our backyard. The sky was clear blue, and distant clouds of pure white held fast in the sky. As the sun set behind the live oaks draped in Spanish moss, a warm breeze swept over the lawn where our closest family and friends sat and, at long-last, I started my walk down the stairs that would become the aisle that would lead me toward the rest of my life. Ahhhhh...it was actually happening..."
At the rehearsal dinner, "Ben and I laughed the night before about getting married again at our age," wrote the 53-year-old singer. She added, "We had both been married before and we aren't exactly kids any more but somehow now seemed like the only age that made sense."