JLo, Ben Affleck hitched: All you need to know about the Bennifer marriage

Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez are now married.

According to the singer’s newsletter On the JLo, the Grammy-nominated singer and actor married her fiance, Oscar winner Ben Affleck.

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The pair flew to Vegas on Saturday and “stood in line for a licence with four other couples” who had also travelled to “the wedding capital of the world.” According to the singer, they “barely made it to the little white wedding chapel by midnight,” which stayed open for a few minutes past its closing time to let them take pictures in a pink Cadillac convertible.

She goes on to call it the “best night of our lives” and expresses gratitude to “the Little White Wedding Chapel” for allowing them to change into their wedding attire in a break room and men’s room.

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Their potential wedding became public after their legal marriage licence, which was filed on Saturday, was posted in the Clark County Clerk’s Office online records database. The couple’s names were given as Benjamin Geza Affleck and Jennifer Lynn Lopez, with Lopez additionally having Jennifer Affleck as a second name.

In early April, the artist and Marry Me actress revealed her engagement to the director-writer-actor. She posted a video of herself wearing an engagement ring in her newsletter On the JLo, along with the caption “Major announcement!!!!” She had a diamond ring emoji as part of her Twitter bio at the time.

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“Saturday night while at my favorite place on earth (in a bubble bath), my beautiful love got on one knee and proposed,” she had stated in her newsletter video.

Lopez, 52, and Affleck, 49, co-starred in Gigli (2003) and Jersey Girl (2004) and were previously engaged in November 2002 after a highly publicised relationship in the early 2000s. Less than two years later, they called off their engagement.

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In the months after their reconciliation, the couple made several high-profile public appearances together. This included attending red carpet events for his December 2021 release The Tender Bar and her February 2022 film Marry Me.

Prior to their nuptials, Lopez and Yankees icon Alex Rodriguez called off their two-year engagement in March 2021. Lopez has been married three times and has two children with her ex-husband Marc Anthony, twins Maximilian and Emme.

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Affleck previously married Jennifer Garner in 2005, and the couple had three children together — Violet, Seraphina, and Samuel — before divorcing in 2018.