Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck Married! Here Are the Best, Funniest Reactions to Surprise Nuptials

According to a Clark County marriage license, Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck, a superstar celebrity couple, were married on Saturday.

Early in the 2000s, the pair started dating and was engaged. After splitting up and spending 17 years apart, they renewed their romance last year.

Jennifer Lopez, Ben Affleck Obtain Wedding Licence

Court records revealed that the pair was granted a marriage license in Clark County, Nevada, on July 16. The license was given to Jennifer Lopez, also known as Jennifer Affleck, and Benjamin Geza Affleck.

Later in the year, they started dating, and by November 2002, "Bennifer," as they were known in the entertainment industry, was engaged. But Lopez said the pair had broken up in 2004, NBC News reported.

During their nearly 20-year separation, the couple continued to date and marry other celebrities. In 2004, Lopez wed the musician Marc Anthony. In 2005, Affleck wed Jennifer Garner, an actress.

Affleck dated actor Ana de Armas while Lopez became engaged to former New York Yankee Alex Rodriguez in 2019. Both couples eventually divorced. In 2021, both of their relationships came to an end. On April 8, Lopez revealed that she and Affleck had renewed their engagement, as per Daily Mail.

On Sunday, family members of Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck were astonished to find that the pair had wed the day before in a tiny ceremony in Nevada. Meanwhile, fans had a very unique way of celebrating the couple's marriage.

Some even made it funny, and others gave predictions of how long their marriage will last.

Jennifer Lopez Hoped to Adopt Ben Affleck's Last Name 20 Years Ago

It seems that Jennifer Lopez, who adopted Ben's last name Affleck in accordance with records from the Clark County Recorder's Office, had been planning to alter her name for around two decades after marrying her longtime partner.

In a recently discovered episode of Access Hollywood from roughly 20 years ago, Pat O'Brien persuaded the actress and singer, now 52, to admit that she intended to use the name Jennifer Affleck as her married name. In the video, Jennifer Lopez shows off her cooking skills while giving O'Brien a tour of her house.

The Hustlers actress reveals that she would maintain her maiden name as her stage name but take Ben's last name as her official identity while sporting a casual royal blue tracksuit and gold hoops earrings.

Though the replacement isn't nearly as catchy, the two had fun in the video finding out what her nickname would be if it weren't J.Lo. The video appears to have been shot after Ben proposed to Jennifer for the first time in November 2002.

The pair was slated to get married in September 2003, but they changed their plans just four days before the wedding. By January 2004, they had broken off their engagement. The couple's Las Vegas wedding was announced earlier on Sunday, three months after they became engaged once more.

According to the Clark County Recorder's Office, the pop singer will change her name online to "Jennifer Affleck." However, the marriage certificate has not yet been submitted. The Clark County Clerk's Office states that marriage officiants have ten calendar days to deliver the certificate to their location for filing.

The license was obtained on Saturday and is under their legal names, Benjamin Geza Affleck and Jennifer Lynn Lopez, according to TMZ's report on Sunday morning. "They did, indeed, get hitched, and the license is a signal they are now man and wife," according to a source close to the on-off pair, who previously dated between 2002 and 2004.

According to People, Jennifer Lopez's mother and children attended the "super small" wedding. The announcement of the wedding comes less than a month before the actor, who was born in Berkeley and reared in Cambridge, will age 50 and exactly one week before the pop diva, a native of the Bronx, will celebrate her 53rd birthday.

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