Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez have (finally) tied the knot, as reported by TMZ. I know, right? I’m crying too. From yacht booty slaps to MR & MRS — it’s almost too much for me to handle. Of course, as fans of Bennifer know, these nuptials were set to happen two decades ago, but hey… timing is everything, right?
And please… tell that one friend this doesn’t mean she has the right to text her ex just because Bennifer got back together for good!
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In official court documents obtained by TMZ, Benjamin Géza Affleck and Jennifer Lynn Lopez got a marriage license in Clark County, Nevada on Saturday, July 16.
This means the pair officially tied the knot 20 YEARS after their original engagement in 2002.
As fans will recall, the pair first got engaged in 2002 with the STUNNING pink diamond I will always think about.
Sadly for Bennifer fans, the pair called it quits in 2004.
Of course, Ben would go on to marry actress Jennifer Garner and have three children, while JLo married singer Marc Anthony and had twins.
Reflecting on her relationship reboot with Ben back in February, Jennifer explained why things were so different for the pair this time around.
“We’re older now, we’re smarter, we have more experience, we’re at different places in our lives, we have kids now,” Jen explained to People at the time, “and we have to be very conscious of those things.”
“We’re so protective because it is such a beautiful time for all of us,” she told the publication, adding that she and Ben consider their union to be “sacred.”
“I feel so lucky and happy and proud to be with him,” the Marry Me actress gushed. “It’s a beautiful love story that we got a second chance.”
“It’s beautiful the way it feels very different than it was years ago,” she said. “There’s more of an appreciation and a celebration for it, which is nice.”
“When you find somebody and you really, really love them and you get a second chance at that? That is a really rare, precious, beautiful thing and we don’t take it for granted.”
Are you crying yet? Because I sure am!
In April, it was announced that the pair were engaged, AGAIN!
After setting the bar so high the first time, I think it’s safe to say Ben did not disappoint with the rare 8.5 carat stone.
“I always say the color green is my lucky color,” Jennifer said in her letter to fans announcing the engagement. “Maybe you can remember a certain green dress.”
In that same newsletter, the 51-year-old explained how Ben popped the question a second time.
“Did you ever imagine your biggest dream could come true? Saturday night while at my favorite place on earth (in the bubble bath), my beautiful love got on one knee and proposed,” Jennifer recalled.
“I was taken totally off guard and just looked in his eyes smiling and crying at the same time trying hard to get my head around the fact that after 20 years this was happening all over again.”
“I was quite literally speechless and he said, ‘is that a yes?’ I said YES of course that’s a YES,” she explained.
Jen was (understandably) super emotional and said she “was smiling so big and tears were coming down my face” as she felt “so incredibly happy and whole.”
“It was nothing fancy at all, but it was the most romantic thing I could’ve ever imagined…just a quiet Saturday night at home, two people promising to always be there for each other.”
As for the actual wedding, there are not many details yet BUT a source did tell “Entertainment Tonight” that the couple “have so much fun together and thought this would be a fun idea, too.”
“Ben is absolutely in love with Jen and feels loved by her, too. They both feel so comfortable with each other, and like, they share history and know each other so well,” they added.
Congrats, Bennifer!
h/t: TMZ
