Jennifer Lopez revealed her marriage to Ben Affleck in a newsletter to her fans on Sunday afternoon. Lopez wore a “dress from an old movie” and Affleck wore a blazer from his closet to their wedding in Las Vegas on Saturday night. Lopez and Affleck got engaged in April 2022, after a year after rekindling their relationship.

Also read: Why did Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez split up the first time?

Within hours of TMZ reporting that the couple had obtained a marriage licence in Clark County, Nevada, Lopez sent out a special edition of her On the JLo newsletter to supporters with the simple subject line, “We did it.” The letter contained images from the wedding as well as clips of the celebrities getting ready. “We did it. Love is beautiful. Love is kind. And it turns out love is patient. Twenty years patient,” she started. “Exactly what we wanted.”

According to Lopez, the two were in line behind two couples and “barely” made it to the white wedding chapel before midnight. The chapel personnel stayed late to take photos in a pink Cadillac convertible.

Also read: How many times has Jennifer Lopez been married?

“So with the best witnesses you could ever imagine, a dress from an old movie and a jacket from Ben’s closet, we read our own vows in the little chapel and gave one another the rings we’ll wear for the rest of our lives,” Lopez noted. “They even had Bluetooth for a (short) march down the aisle. But in the end, it was the best possible wedding we could have imagined. One we dreamed of long ago and one made real (in the eyes of the state, Las Vegas, a pink convertible, and one another) at very, very long last.”

Also read: ‘Love don’t cost a thing’: A look at Jennifer Lopez’s dating history

Lopez continued, that when “love is real,” the only thing that matters in marriage is “one another and the promise we make to love, care, understand, be patient, loving and good to one another.” As they look forward to their life with five “in abundance” children, their new blended family has an “abundance” of love. Lopez and ex-husband Marc Anthony have twins Max and Emme, while Affleck and ex-wife Jennifer Garner have Violet, Seraphine, and Samuel.

Also read: Bennifer in brief: A look back at the love story of Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez

“Stick around long enough and maybe you’ll find the best moment of your life in a drive-through in Las Vegas at twelve-thirty in the morning in the tunnel of love drive-through, with your kids and the one you’ll spend forever with,” Lopez wrote in conclusion. “Love is a great thing, maybe the best of things-and worth waiting for.” 

Lopez signed the note “Mrs. Jennifer Lynn Affleck,” confirming that she had altered her last name.