When it came to finding just the right words to express to his new wife how much he loves her, Ben Affleck didn’t have to look too far, pulling a line straight out of one of his movies.
Jennifer Lopez shared a number of romantic details from their three-day Georgia nuptials in the latest edition of her newsletter, On The Jlo, which she titled, “This is heaven. Right Here. We’re in it now.” In the post, she revealed the significance of those words, writing, “That is one of my favorite lines that Ben wrote from a movie he directed called Live By Night. He also said it the night of our wedding reception in his speech, and I thought…how perfect.” Affleck wrote, directed and starred in the 2016 action film set in prohibition-era Boston about a group of bootleggers, including Zoe Saldana, Sienna Miller, and Elle Fanning, who face off against the mob.
Lopez also shared that they were initially concerned about the weather on their wedding day as “It had rained at sunset every day that week.” She wrote, “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.”
But the pop star insists that she “never had one doubt” that their big day would go off without a hitch. She continued, “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…”
After getting legally married in July at Las Vegas’s A Little White Wedding Chapel, last month Affleck and Lopez hosted a lavish three-day ceremony with more than 100 guests in attendance at the 87-acre compound owned by the actor located on Hampton Island Preserve in Georgia. Affleck wore a white tuxedo jacket with black bow tie, while Lopez cycled through three gowns designed by Ralph Lauren for the event officiated by podcaster Jay Shetty, where guests were also encouraged to dress in all white. A source explained to People that the newlyweds chose the home for their ceremony because it hold special meaning for them both as Affleck purchased it when they were engaged the first time around and they “have a special connection there.”