Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez celebrated their newlyweds with a three-day wedding for friends and family at Affleck’s private mansion in Georgia.
The happy couple tied the knot almost a month ago in Las Vegas, Nevada, during a midnight ceremony on the famous strip, which was witnessed by only a handful of people, including two of their children from previous marriages.
“It’s going to be all about J.Lo,” a source told Page Six. “Ben wants all the focus to be on her for their big day.”
The celebrity roster heading south for the weekend is expected to include Matt Damon, Jimmy Kimmel, Ben’s brother Casey Affleck and Drea De Matteo.
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Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez are reportedly holding a second wedding ceremony at his Georgia mansion this weekend. The couple tied the knot in Las Vegas last month. (Jennifer Lopez/OntheJLo.com)
Reps for Affleck and Lopez did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.
The ‘Waiting for Tonight’ singer is expected to wear ‘a custom Ralph Lauren couture dress’ made in Italy, with Vogue capturing the fashion journey.
Affleck’s private estate it sits on 87 acres and the 6,000-square-foot main mansion is designed to look like an old plantation house with 24-foot columns, shutters and a wraparound porch.
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The complex has three separate structures and is located about an hour outside of Savannah in the exclusive Hampton Island Preserve.
Affleck reportedly bought the property for $7 million in 2003 when he was first engaged to Lopez.
Jennifer Lopez says her Las Vegas wedding to Ben Affleck was “exactly what we wanted”. (Jennifer Lopez/OntheJLo.com)
Insiders revealed that the “intimate celebration for family and friends” begins with a rehearsal dinner on Friday and the actual ceremony on Saturday.
A barbecue and picnic will cap off the three-day event, with the publication stating that Colin Cowie will lead the planning details for the lavish affair.
Ben and Jen were first engaged in 2002 and had plans to marry in September 2003, but postponed their wedding and finally called off their relationship in January 2004.
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They rekindled their romance in April 2021 after she broke up with ex-fiancé Alex Rodriguez and he split from Ana de Armas. He announced their engagement earlier this year and revealed he proposed while she was in the bathtub.
Jennifer Lopez shared a black-and-white photo of husband Ben Affleck kissing her neck as she announced her marriage. (Jennifer Lopez/OntheJLo.com)
Lopez announced her marriage to Affleck in a newsletter post to subscribers, where she revealed they said their vows at The Little White Wedding Chapel shortly after midnight on July 17.
Court documents show the 53-year-old “Hustlers” actress requested a “new name” in the filing, which was first received on Saturday, July 16 and filed the next day with the Clark County Clerk’s office. She will now legally be called Jennifer Affleck.
The “Marry Me” star previously changed her name when she was married to singer Marc Anthony. Nearly six months after their divorce was finalized in 2014 — and three years after they were separated — Lopez dropped his last name, Muniz.
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J.Lo and Marc have 14-year-old twins Max and Emme.
She was also previously married to dancer Cris Judd from 2001-03 and had a one-year marriage to Ojani Noa, which began in 1997 and ended in 1998.
Affleck and ex-wife Jennifer Garner; they have three children: Violet, 16, Seraphina, 13, and Samuel, 10.
Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez (due 2021) got engaged in April and had a surprise wedding in July. (Amy Sussman)
“We did it. Love is beautiful. Love is kind. And it turns out love is patient. Twenty years of patience,” Lopez wrote of the intimate nuptials, which she said were “exactly what we wanted.”
“They were right when they said ‘all you need is love.’ We are so grateful to have it in abundance, a wonderful new family with five amazing children and a life we have never had more reason to look forward to,” she wrote.
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“Wait long enough and you might find the best moment of your life on a drive through Las Vegas at 12:30 in the morning in the tunnel of love, with your children and the one you’ll spend forever with. Love is a great thing, maybe the better than the stuff – and worth the wait.”
She captioned her post: “With love, Mrs. Jennifer Lynn Affleck.”
Tracy Wright is an entertainment writer for Fox News Digital. Send story tips to [email protected]
