Almost two weeks have passed since Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck swore eternal love to each other at the altar and, finally, the singer has revealed unpublished images of their union and the three-day party.
The photos were shared on the newsletter On The JLo Along with a beautiful letter in which “the queen of the Bronx” expressed the importance of their union and the love she has for her now husband.
It had rained at sunset every day that week. Everyone was worried about the heat, the aptly named ‘love nerves’, the details, whether the guests would arrive on time, etc., not to mention the thunder and lightning that came almost on cue every day at exactly the right time. of the ceremony. It was supposed to start that Saturday. Oh, we all got a stomach virus and we recovered until the end of the week…
The truth is that I never had a doubt. All week I felt the calm and easy certainty that we were in God’s hands…
At 6:45 pm on Saturday, August 20…as the sun set behind the Spanish moss covered oaks, I finally started down the stairs that would become the hallway that would lead me into the rest of my life.
Ben and I discussed Marc Cohn’s ‘True Companion’ as the perfect love song for a wedding in this very house over twenty years ago… However, as I walked down the aisle, the first song that came on wasn’t ‘ True Companion’. It was ‘The Things We’ve Handed Down’, a song about the wonderful mystery of children, something we could only guess at the time, but it was the perfect choice as all five of our children preceded me on the walk.
The twenty years between those youthful dreams and the adult world of love and family we embraced that day brought more to this marriage than either of us could have imagined. We weren’t just getting married, we were marrying these children into a new family…
Ben and I laughed the night before we were remarried at our age. We’d both been married before and we’re not exactly kids anymore, but somehow now it seemed like the only age that made sense.
Being able to love someone to want to be better for him and make him happy, because giving happiness and love becomes more joyful than receiving it, is true sublime adult love.
Rilke believed that love must be learned and the learning time is long. One has to become whole for the sake of another person so that two solitudes ‘border, protect and greet each other’. Merging and surrendering requires wisdom, self-awareness, and is nearly impossible in the heat of youthful impatience.
The truth is that everyone’s story is different and we all have our paths to follow. No two people are alike. But for us, this was the perfect moment. Nothing ever seemed more right to me and I knew we were finally ‘settling down’ in a way that you can only do when you understand loss and joy and are proven enough to never take the important things for granted or let the silly things be insignificant… That night really was heaven…
The next day, we all get together for a delicious lakeside brunch. For those who are interested in those things, I have some details of what we did decoration-wise on each of the three days. I designed it and could easily talk about it for days!
Years ago we had no idea that the road ahead would mean navigating so many labyrinths and holding so many surprises, blessings, and delights. Everything culminated in this moment, one of the most perfect of our lives. We couldn’t have been happier. I wish you all the same kind of happiness… the kind of hard-earned happiness made even sweeter by the journey that came before.
We love you guys… forever.
Source: Okchicas
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