Following Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck’s marriage ceremony over the weekend, a classic clip of the Marry Me actress — who’s now formally Jennifer Affleck — during which she reveals plans to alter her identify to that in their first engagement, has resurfaced.
Within the 2003 footage, when Entry Hollywood‘s Pat O’Brien asks Lopez what her identify will likely be every week after her then-planned marriage ceremony, she does not hesitate.
“Jennifer Lopez,” she says, confirming that she deliberate to maintain her identify professionally. “However my identify will likely be Jennifer Affleck, clearly.”
The brand new moniker would even be on her private stationery, she stated.
Nonetheless, she joked, “J. Aff… does not have fairly the identical ring to it.”
The couple nicknamed Bennifer famously ended up suspending their marriage ceremony again then due to “extreme media consideration,” earlier than calling it off altogether in 2004. They, in fact, reunited final 12 months and introduced in April that they have been engaged for the second time.
Following their ceremony Saturday at A Little White Marriage ceremony Chapel in Las Vegas, Lopez shared an announcement within the newest version of her On the JLo e-newsletter, which she signed “Mrs. Jennifer Lynn Affleck.” Their marriage license, listed on the Clark County Clerk’s Workplace web site, confirms that her new identify is “Jennifer Affleck.”
In the identical be aware, she gave particulars concerning the nuptials, together with the truth that her youngsters — Max and Emme, the 14-year-old twins she shares with ex-husband Marc Anthony — have been there to observe as she and the Argo director and star exchanged vows.
“We barely made it to the little white marriage ceremony chapel by midnight,” she wrote. “They graciously stayed open late a couple of minutes, allow us to take footage in a pink Cadillac convertible, evidently as soon as utilized by the king himself (but when we wished Elvis himself to indicate, that price additional and he was in mattress).”
Lopez was ecstatic concerning the no-frills ceremony.
“They have been proper after they stated, ‘all you want is love,’ We’re so grateful to have that in abundance, a brand new fantastic household of 5 wonderful youngsters and a life that we have now by no means had extra cause to sit up for,” she wrote, referring to Affleck’s three youngsters — 16-year-old Violet, 13-year-old Seraphina and Samuel, 10 — with ex-wife Jennifer Garner. “Stick round lengthy sufficient and perhaps you may discover one of the best second of your life in a drive-through in Las Vegas at 12:30 within the morning within the Tunnel of Love drive-through, together with your youngsters and the one you may spend endlessly with. Love is a good factor, perhaps one of the best of things-and value ready for.”