Jennifer Lopez said she experienced unexpected setbacks” during her wedding to Ben Affleck

Jennifer Lopez said she experienced unexpected setbacks” during her wedding to Ben Affleck

Few wedding days go completely smoothly, as Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck can attest. After tying the knot in a low-key, middle-of-the-night ceremony in Las Vegas last month, the couple had a larger celebration with family and friends in Georgia on August 20. But according to Lopez, there were a lot of "unexpected setbacks" leading up to the big day.

Sharing wedding photos in her On The JLo newsletter, the multi-hyphenate revealed that the week leading up to the wedding included daily storms at sunset, right around the time her Saturday ceremony was set to begin, a gastrointestinal issue that knocked "everyone" down for the count. intense heat and lovebugs everywhere.

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Despite what added up to the "requisites for a doozie of a wedding weekend," Lopez "never had a doubt" that the wedding would go well, she shared. It appears that the couple enjoyed the celebration and that Lopez was grateful to have the couple's five children — her twins Max and Emme, whom she shares with ex Marc Anthony, and his two daughters Violet and Seraphina and son Samuel, who he shares with ex Jennifer Garner — with them as they exchanged vows.

"The twenty years between those youthful dreams and the adult world of love and family we embraced that day have brought more to this marriage than any of us could have ever imagined," Lopez wrote, referring to the nearly two decades since she and Affleck were first engaged. "Not only did we marry each other, we married these children into a new family. They were the only people we asked to advocate for us in our wedding ceremony. To our great honor and joy, everyone did."

Lopez shared that after shaking off her usual wedding day jitters, she looked into her future husband's eyes. “Some old wounds were healed that day and the weight of the past was finally lifted from our shoulders,” she wrote. "It's coming full circle - and not at all the way we planned. Better."

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All feelings aside, it's clear that these two defy stereotypes about the problems of getting back with an ex. Sometimes, even if the initial timing isn't right, you may find your way back to someone in better circumstances, like licensed psychotherapist and relationship expert Rachel Wright, MA, LMFT. previously told previously told form.

Wright argued that in some cases - perhaps including Bennifer - rekindling an old flame means "you're not exploring an old relationship, but rather exploring a new one with someone you've tried a relationship with before," especially since you're both likely to show up as a different version of yourself.

As Lopez himself put it, "The truth is that everyone's story is different and we all have our paths to follow. No two people are the same. But for us, this was perfect timing." Hopefully the newlyweds have many more happy years ahead of them, no matter what the journey looks like.