Wedding bells for Bennifer! Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck are closer to walking down the aisle than you might think.
“Jennifer will tell you she’s not in a rush to get married, but her friends think otherwise,” a source exclusively reveals in the new issue of Us Weekly. “The truth is that if Ben wanted to push this forward as early as this summer, she’d be totally down with that.”
The insider added that the Marry Me star, 52, “wants the formalities out of the way so they can start their journey as man and wife sooner rather than later,” and she intends to have a big wedding.
“She definitely wants a spectacular celebration at some point and money won’t be an object!” the source continued. “They’re both committed to making this work and taking all the steps necessary to respect each other’s boundaries and learn from their mistakes the last time around.”
Lopez and Affleck, 49, first met in 2002 on the set of their film Gigli, while the “Jenny From the Block” singer was still married to Cris Judd. In June 2002, Lopez filed for divorce from Judd, 52, and began publicly dating the Good Will Hunting actor.
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Affleck proposed the following November. However, the costars turned lovers canceled their nuptials due to “excessive media attention” just days before their wedding was supposed to take place in September 2003. By January 2004, they had officially broken up.
The Maid in Manhattan actress married Marc Anthony later that same year, and Affleck began dating Jennifer Garner. They tied the knot the following June.
Although they both moved on, Affleck and Lopez continued to speak positively about each other in the press. In 2020, the Gone Girl actor told The New York Times that he thought Lopez should’ve received an Oscar nomination for her role in Hustlers.
