Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck Georgia Wedding ceremony Weekend

Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck doubled down on their marriage vows with a decidedly extra elaborate affair in Riceboro, GA (a small city simply exterior of Savannah), on Saturday, Aug. 20. The couple — who have been formally married at a Las Vegas wedding ceremony chapel on July 17 — celebrated their love with their pals and households in Georgia.

The couple’s second ceremony was a star-studded occasion. Affleck’s longtime buddy Matt Damon was in attendance alongside his spouse, Luciana Barroso. Different company included director Kevin Smith and his spouse, Jennifer; “Clerks” star Jason Mewes and his spouse, Jordan Monsanto; and mannequin Pia Miller and her husband, Patrick Whitesell. In the meantime, images point out the marriage get together included Lopez’s kids with Marc Anthony, 14-year-old twins Max and Emme, in addition to Affleck’s kids with ex Jennifer Garner: Violet (16), Seraphina (13), and Samuel (10).

Lopez walked down the aisle in a white Ralph Lauren wedding ceremony robe with an extended prepare, whereas Affleck wore a Ralph Lauren tuxedo with a white jacket. It appears white was the theme of the marriage, because the company have been additionally all decked out of their greatest white ensembles. Podcaster Jay Shetty was the officiant for the ceremony.

Forward of the festivities, a supply instructed Individuals that the weekend would include a prewedding get together, a ceremony, and “a lot of enjoyable.” Images of Affleck’s Riceboro residence shared by the pleased couple confirmed a white outside construction with floral bushes and different rustic but glamorous decor.

The marriage celebration has been a very long time coming for Affleck and Lopez, who initially dated within the early 2000s and have been set to tie the knot in 2004 earlier than breaking apart. They rekindled their romance in 2021 and acquired engaged this previous April.

In her On the JLo e-newsletter entry opening up about their Vegas nuptials — which POPSUGAR had independently confirmed through a wedding license — Lopez mentioned it was “the very best wedding ceremony we may have imagined. One we dreamed of way back and one made actual (within the eyes of the state, Las Vegas, a pink convertible and each other) at very, very lengthy final.”

“When love is actual, the one factor that issues in marriage is each other and the promise we make to like, care, perceive, be affected person, loving and good to at least one one other. We had that. And a lot extra. Greatest night time of our lives,” she wrote.

Within the Sept. 1 version of her e-newsletter, the “Marry Me” singer added that the gorgeous Georgia ceremony had its justifiable share of setbacks, together with a abdomen bug that affected the whole wedding ceremony get together and the looming risk of rain and thunder. Nonetheless, Lopez knew their wedding ceremony day can be excellent. “The reality is, I by no means had one doubt,” she wrote. “All week I felt the calm and simple certainty that we have been in God’s fingers . . .” The day of the marriage, the solar peeked by the clouds and the ceremony continued as deliberate.

When it got here time to decide on their wedding ceremony music, Affleck and Lopez have been set on Marc Cohn’s “True Companion” because the “excellent wedding ceremony love tune” — one thing they’d agreed on twenty years earlier, after they have been first engaged. Lopez even requested Cohn to shock Affleck by singing the tune throughout their nuptials. However the first tune she walked down the aisle to was really Cohn’s “The Issues We have Handed Down,” which Lopez described as “a tune in regards to the fantastic thriller of youngsters.”

“It was the right selection as our 5 kids preceded me on the stroll,” she wrote. “The twenty years between these goals of youth and the grownup world of affection and household we embraced that day, introduced extra to this marriage than both of us ever may have imagined. We weren’t solely marrying each other; we have been marrying these kids into a brand new household. They have been the one individuals we requested to face up for us in our wedding ceremony get together. To our nice honor and pleasure, each did.”

Reflecting on the preliminary begin of her relationship with Affleck, Lopez added that the time between their 2004 breakup and eventual reunion gave them time to develop and type a bond stronger than ever earlier than. “Nothing ever felt extra proper to me, and I knew we have been lastly ‘settling down’ in a method you may solely do while you perceive loss and pleasure and you’re battle examined sufficient to by no means take the essential issues without any consideration or let the foolish insignificant nuisances of the day get in the way in which of embracing each treasured second,” she wrote. “We discover ourselves in that long-desired time of life: having gratitude for all that life has proven us, even its trials and tribulations. That night time actually was heaven.”

Closing out the e-newsletter — which included extra wedding ceremony images — Lopez added, “Years in the past, we had no thought the highway forward would imply navigating so many labyrinths and maintain so many surprises, blessings, and delights. All of it culminated on this second, one of the excellent of our lives. We could not have been happier. I want all of you a similar type of happiness . . . the hard-earned variety that is all of the sweeter for the journey that got here earlier than it.”