Feel the love! Jay Shetty respected to lead Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck’s the second wedding ceremony – but he had some trouble holding it together.
“The No. 1 thing that went through my mind was, ‘Don’t cry, don’t cry, don’t cry.’ Because I’m a complete crier,’” Shetty, 35, told variety in an interview published on Wednesday, February 1. “I’m just talking to myself. So I have to pull myself together because … every part of me just wants to cry full of love.
Lopez, 53, and Affleck, 50, are getting married for the third time in the summer of 2022 – with the second wedding set in Georgia surrounded by family and friends. Over 150 guests attended the event Argo The director’s estate includes a long pal Matt Damon. The couple’s children – 14-year-old Max and Emme, whom Lopez shares with her ex-husband Marc Anthonyand Violet, 17, Samuel, 14, and Seraphina, 10which Affleck shares with ex-husband Jennifer Garner – also participate in the celebration.
Ahead of their August 2022 wedding, the lovebirds formalized their union in a small ceremony in Las Vegas.
“We did. Love is beautiful. Love is kind. And it turns out that love is patient. Twenty years of patience,” in Selena star wrote in July 2022, just hours after Us Weekly confirmed that the couple has obtained a marriage license. “[The wedding was] exactly what we wanted. Last night we flew to Vegas, stood in line for the license with four other couples, all traveling to the wedding capital of the world.
After a low-key ceremony, an insider revealed us the duo planned to have a bigger party with a larger group of friends and family, who are listening that the choice to elope has been a long time coming.
“Jen and Ben have been talking about eloping for months now and it’s perfect for them,” the insider said us in time. “[They] before the two of them had a big wedding, so the pageant was not as important as it used to be.”
Lopez and so on Good Will Hunting The star was first involved between 2002 and 2004 before they called it quits. The two rekindled their romance in May 2021 after the “Let’s Get Loud” singer split from her fiancé. Alex Rodriguez. In April, she revealed that Affleck had proposed twice.
“Saturday night while in my favorite place on earth (in a bubble bath), my beautiful love got down on one knee and proposed,” he wrote in a newsletter at the time, confirming the engagement. “He wasn’t alert and just looked in his eyes smiling and crying at the same time trying so hard to understand that after 20 years this happened again, I was really speechless and he said, ‘that’s it huh?’ I said, ‘YES is definitely YES.'”
While Shetty, for his part, became an officiant for only one of “Bennifer’s” weddings, the former monk is known to help celebrity couples tie the knot. In September 2021, he helped Lily Collins and your husband Charlie McDowell say “I do” at Dunton Hot Springs in Colorado.
“This moment will keep playing in my head,” the groom, 39, captioned an Instagram post at the time, while Lily commented, “I’m so excited to be your wife. ❤️🔥.”