Jennifer Lopezis detailing one of the special moments she andBen Affleckshared at their Georgia wedding thanks to singer Marc Cohn.
After privatelytying the knotin Las Vegas, Lopez, 53, and Affleck, 50, the couplecelebrated their nuptialsSaturday, Aug. 20, alongside friends and family on the grounds ofAffleck’s 87-acre compoundoutside Savannah, Georgia.
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Still, it wasn’t “True Companion” that Cohn sang during Lopez’s big moment.
“As I walked down the aisle, the first song he played wasn’t ‘True Companion’ however. It was his ‘The Things We’ve Handed Down” — a song about the wonderful mystery of children — something we could only guess at back then, but it was the perfect choice as our five children preceded me on the walk," she said.
TheSecond Actactress continued, “The 20 years between those dreams of youth and the adult world of love and family we embraced that day, brought more to this marriage than either of us ever could have imagined.”
She pointed out that along with making a commitment to one another, they were also “marrying these children into a new family.”
“They were the only people we asked to stand up for us in our wedding party. To our great honor and joy, each one did.”
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Lopez is mom to 14-year-old twinsEmmeandMax, whom she shares with ex-husbandMarc Anthony. Affleck is dad toSamuel, 10, as well asSeraphina, 13, andViolet, 16, with ex-wifeJennifer Garner.
In her newsletter, Lopez said that once Violet completed her walk down the aisle, Cohn began to sing “True Companion,” a song she and Affleck “first listened to together what seemed both like yesterday and forever ago — and life came, strangely, beautifully, mysteriously, divinely full-circle.”
As for how theArgoactor and director felt in the moment, Lopez wrote that after the ceremony “he told me that the chords of the song and seeing Marc Cohn both shocked him and allowed him to feel the way both roads we had walked found their way, inevitably, inexorably, and perfectly together.”
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“And when he saw me appear at the top of the stairs that moment it both made absolute sense while seeming still impossibly hard to believe, like the best dream, where all you want is never to awaken.”
She confessed that she would have experienced similar sentiments “had I not been focusing so hard on not tripping over my dress, but when I got close enough to see his face, it made the same wonderful sense to me.”
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“Some old wounds were healed that day and the weight of the past finally lifted off our shoulders. Full-circle — and not at all the way we planned it. Better,” wrote Lopez.
The newlyweds were first engaged in 2002, when Affleckbought the Georgia estate, and split in 2004. Theyrekindled their romancein April 2021.
source: people.com
