On Thursday, Lopez shared personal information and images from their Georgia marriage on Sept. 20, in which Affleck quoted one of his movies during his reception speech.
This is heaven. Right here. We are in it now. What are my favorite lines that Ben wrote from a movie he directed called Live By Night, Lopez revealed?
He also said it on the night of our wedding reception in his speech, and I thought, how perfect. Affleck directed, produced, and starred in the 2016 film based on Dennis Lehane’s 2012 novel about a notorious gangster.
The singer-actress also noted that we all caught a stomach bug and were recuperating late in the week. It had rained at sunset daily that week at the exact time the ceremony was supposed to start that Saturday, making it a doozie of a wedding weekend.
But she never had one doubt and ended up enjoying a beautiful, rain-free ceremony at sunset. She described the wedding ‘vibes’ as down-home, rustic country-chic.
Lopez surprised Affleck during the ceremony with Marc Cohn singing live, as they previously discussed in this house more than twenty years ago, that his song True Companion was the perfect wedding love song. While Affleck later told her the performance moved him, she had other things on her mind.
Ben told me that the song’s chords and seeing Marc Cohn both shocked him and allowed him to feel how both roads we had walked found their way, inevitably, inexorably, and perfectly together, she wrote.
And when he saw me at the top of the stairs that moment, it both created absolute sense while seeming still very hard to believe, like the good dream, where all you want is never to awaken.
But when she got close enough to see his face, it made the same wonderful sense to me. They healed some old wounds that day and finally lifted the weight of the past off our shoulders. Full circle and not at all the way we planned it.
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The truth is everyone’s story is different, and we all have our paths to travel. No two people are the same. But for us, this was perfect timing.
Nothing ever felt more right to me, and I knew we were finally ‘settling down in a way you can only do when you understand loss and joy and you are battle-tested enough to never take the important things for granted or let the silly insignificant nuisances of the day get in the way of embracing every precious moment.
It all culminated at this moment, one of the most perfect of our lives. We could not have been happier. He wishes you the same kind of happiness, the hard-earned kind that is all the journey that came before it.