Jennifer Lopez says she got married to Ben Affleck in Vegas to take 'all the pressure off of the big family wedding'
- Jennifer Lopez said that her Vegas wedding with Ben Affleck took "pressure" off planning a ceremony.
- Lopez and Affleck married in Vegas last year, a month before their formal wedding.
Jennifer Lopez said her surprise wedding with Ben Affleck in Las Vegas helped to take "all the pressure off" of planning her big family wedding.
In July last year, Lopez announced that she and Affleck married in a private ceremony with their children present at the Little White Wedding Chapel in Las Vegas, Nevada. They followed up the Vegas wedding with a formal ceremony a month later in Riceboro, Georgia.
The couple, who first dated in 2002, rekindled their romance almost 20 years later in 2021 and announced their second engagement in April 2022.
During a press conference last week for Lopez's upcoming movie "Shotgun Wedding," the actor was asked about the preparation for her own wedding. She joked that the stress of wedding planning prompted their elopement.
"I think that's why we ran off to Vegas and got married there first," Lopez said. "Took all the pressure off of the big family wedding that we were having."
Lopez said that Affleck planned the Vegas ceremony but the couple worked together when it came to the formal wedding.
"He has an amazing eye. He has incredible taste," Lopez said. "But everything we do, we try and do it together."
She added later: "Planning a wedding is a lot. Very stressful."
Lopez's costar Josh Duhamel also got married last year to his second wife, Audra Mari. However, he said during the press conference that he left all the planning to the American model.
"I was not [a Groomzilla]," Duhamel said. "The wedding was in much better hands with Audra conducting everything. And the wedding was beautiful and it was almost like a surprise wedding in a way because I had no idea what half the stuff was gonna be when I got there."
He added after laughing: "Just what everyone out there wants to hear. But I was working, she loved it and she did a great job. It was fantastic."
In the upcoming action comedy, Duhamel and Lopez play an engaged couple whose wedding is disrupted by party-crashing exes, fighting parents, and a group of pirates.
The film features a star-studded ensemble cast including Jennifer Coolidge, Cheech Marin, Lenny Kravitz, and Sonia Braga.
"Shotgun Wedding" premieres on Prime Video on January 27.