Jennifer LopezandBen Affleck’s kids played an important role in their Georgia wedding celebration.
Their children — Lopez shares twinsEmme and Maximilian, 14, with ex-husbandMarc Anthony, and Affleck sharesViolet, 16,Seraphina, 13, andSamuel, 10, with ex-wifeJennifer Garner— gave them away as theycelebrated their nuptialslast month in Georgia. Lopez and Affleckwere married in Las Vegasin July.
In the bride’s newsletterOn The JLo, Lopez, 53, explained that she surprised Affleck, 50, with an appearance fromMarc Cohnto perform his song “True Companion,” which the newlyweds agreed was a “perfect wedding love song” when they first dated more than 20 years ago.
“As I walked down the aisle, the first song he played wasn’t ‘True Companion’ however,” she wrote. “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.
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“The twenty 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. We weren’t only marrying one another; we were 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,” Lopez added.
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Earlier that week, the couple and their kids were seen during afamily outingin Savannah.
Affleck and Lopez stepped out in matching shades of tan as Lopez visited Glow Med Spa while Affleck and the kids got coffee at Gallery Espresso, Glow Med Spa owner Courtney Victor exclusively told PEOPLE.
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The family also went shopping in downtown Savannah, which is near Affleck’s87-acre compound.
After they originally dated from 2002 to 2004, Affleck and Lopezrekindled their romancelast year andannounced their engagementin April.
The coupletied the knotat A Little White Wedding Chapel in Vegas during intimate midnight nuptials in July. A sourcetold PEOPLE: “The Las Vegas ceremony was perfect. They both loved it. It was private and low-key. That’s all they asked for.”
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They laterjetted off to Parisfor a romantic getaway, where they were photographedcanoodling around the City of Loveandcelebrating Lopez’s birthday.
The couple returned to Europe for their honeymoon following their celebration in Georgia.
A source who saw the pair dining at the Grand Hotel Tremezzo in Lake Comotold PEOPLE, “They were attentive only to each other, didn’t have eyes for anything else.”
source: people.com
