Jennifer Lopez Dishes connected Ben Affleck's Creative Influence & New Music

Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck would hardly beryllium the archetypal celebrities to reply the siren opus of the all-night Las Vegas wedding chapel. 

But the pair's July 16, 2022 Sin City nuptials were nary spur-of-the-moment determination conceived adjacent to the Caesar's Palace blackjack table. 

"Twenty years ago, we were expected to get married, and it benignant of each fell isolated backmost then," Lopez explained on Jimmy Kimmel Live! successful January, referencing their archetypal aboriginal aughts engagement. "And this time, I perfectly had a small PTSD. I was like, 'Is this happening? Is this truly happening?' And we were truthful happy, and of course, it was happening, but I conscionable felt the wedding was truthful stressful."

Putting unneurotic an all-white matter for 100 guests at Affleck's Georgia property had already begun to consciousness similar a lot adjacent earlier they started discussions connected however to artifact paparazzi from getting a peek. So erstwhile their teams suggested an elopement, Lopez recalled, "Ben conscionable says, 'F--k it, let's conscionable spell to Vegas and get joined tonight.'"

So what happens successful Vegas...

"We did it," Lopez wrote the adjacent time successful her On The JLo newsletter, calling it the "best nighttime of our lives" 

It's really rather fitting that the wedding ceremony didn't spell exactly as erstwhile envisioned for the popular star, 53, who archetypal fell caput implicit decorator heels for the Oscar winner, 50, backmost successful 2002.

Their eventual 2004 split "was the biggest heartbreak of my life," she admitted to Apple Music One's Zane Lowe. "It sent maine connected a spiral for the adjacent 18 years wherever I conscionable couldn't get it right."

And conscionable similar the pair's decades-spanning romance, their wedding had a 2nd act. 

With the aboriginal elopement lifting a spot of the pressure, Lopez was capable to propulsion guardant with the Colin Cowie-planned backyard-wedding-on-steroids at the 83-acre plantation-style dispersed Affleck purchased erstwhile they were dating the archetypal clip astir successful 2003. 

And though determination were a fewer much stumbles en way to everlastingly ("All of america caught a tummy bug and were recuperating 'til precocious successful the week," Lopez shared successful her newsletter), that Aug. 20 the Bronx-born multi-hyphenate yet met her Ralph Lauren Couture-clad groom at the extremity of a delphinium-covered aisle. 

Violet, 17, Seraphina, 13, and Samuel, 10 (Affleck's kids with erstwhile woman Jennifer Garner) and 15-year-old Max and Emme (her twins with 3rd hubby Marc Anthony) preceded Lopez down the aisle to "The Things We've Handed Down". A opus astir "the fantastic enigma of children," she detailed successful her newsletter, noting it "was the cleanable choice." 

As for her, "I would person had galore of the aforesaid thoughts astir apt had I not been focusing truthful hard connected not tripping implicit my dress," she said of the turtleneck file with a voluminous ruffled skirt, her archetypal of three customized Ralph Lauren Collection designs, "but erstwhile I got adjacent capable to spot his face, it made the aforesaid fantastic consciousness to me."

"Some aged wounds were healed that time and the value of the past yet lifted disconnected our shoulders," she continued. "Full-circle—and not astatine each the mode we planned it. Better."

With the likes of Matt Damon and director Kevin Smith looking on, the 2000s It pair (one of the aboriginal benefactors of the celeb mates portmanteau) exchanged self-penned vows and rings to complement the engagement sparkler Affleck had inscribed with "Not. Going. Anywhere". They were the aforesaid words helium utilized to motion disconnected his emails "when we started talking again," Lopez explained to Lowe. "Like, 'Don't worry, I'm not going anywhere.'"

"The prima broke escaped and formed its rays similar small diamonds dancing crossed the stream down the makeshift altar successful our backyard," she described. Then, with the pair officially named Mr. and Mrs. Affleck, they posed for household photos connected the dock arsenic their guests moved to the next set-up of their casual at-home affair. 

Inside the barn, nether a canopy of greenery, florals and sparkling chandeliers, attendees dined astatine banquet tables topped with candles and meticulously-crafted tablescapes past listened to the groom gush astir the partner he's called "the astir gorgeous pistillate successful the world."

Cribbing from his 2016 movie Live By Night, Affleck quoted 1 of his bride's favourite lines, saying, "This is heaven. Right Here. We're successful it now."

As Lopez, by past having changed into a silk tulle and Swarovski crystal-embellished chandelier pearl gown, recalled of the toast, "I thought...how perfect."

Such was the watchword of the evening that, naturally, had each impermanent connected the level earlier stunning them with a finale of fireworks.  

"Years ago, we had nary thought the roadworthy up would mean navigating truthful galore labyrinths and clasp truthful galore surprises, blessings, and delights," Lopez surmised in her September newsletter. "It each culminated successful this moment, 1 of the astir cleanable of our lives. We couldn't person been happier. I privation each of you the aforesaid benignant of happiness...the hard-earned benignant that's each the sweeter for the travel that came earlier it."

Ain't it comic however immoderate feelings you conscionable can't deny? Savor each infinitesimal of the pair's 2nd accidental solemnisation successful the assemblage below.