Lopez and Affleck, affectionately nicknamed Bennifer, married in a small ceremony on weekend, culminating a relationship that has stretched over two decades and two engagements
“Love is beautiful. Love is kind. And it turns out love is patient. Twenty years patient,” she wrote in a message, signed Jennifer Lynn Affleck.on Saturday, stood in line for their licence with four other couples and were wed just after midnight at the Little White Chapel, a chapel boasting a drive-through “tunnel of love”.“They were right when they said, ‘all you need is love’.
“Stick around long enough and maybe you’ll find the best moment of your life in a drive through in Las Vegas at 12.30 in the morning and at 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.”
News of their nuptials first spread on Sunday after the Clark county clerk’s office in Nevada showed that the pair obtained a marriage licence that was processed on Saturday. The marriage licence filing showed that Lopez was taking the name Jennifer Affleck.Lopez, 52, and Affleck, 49, famously dated in the early 2000s, spawning the nickname “Bennifer”, before rekindling their romance last year. They earlier starred together in 2003’s Gigli and 2004’s Jersey Girl.