Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez Wanted a ‘Fun and Casual’ Las Vegas Wedding After Calling Off Massive 2003 Nuptials

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Doing it differently. Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck married in a Las Vegas ceremony over the weekend that was intentionally very different from the wedding they planned nearly 20 years earlier.Lopez, 52, and Affleck, 49, obtained a marriage license on Saturday, July 16, in Clark County, Nevada, per legal records, and they married that weekend, a source confirmed to Us Weekly on Sunday, July 17.“They both are so comfortable with each other and make each other so happy, so they don’t want to wait any longer,” the insider explains exclusively to Us.The “Marry Me” singer and the Argo director decided that getting married in Sin City would make the nuptials more enjoyable. “They both thought it was a fun and casual way to tie the knot,” the source adds.The wedding was very different from the massive affair the two first planned — and eventually called off — in 2003.The New Yorker and the Boston native connected in early 2002 while filming Gigli.

After Lopez filed for divorce from her second husband, Cris Judd, her romance with Affleck heated up. He proposed in November of that year with a 6-carat pink diamond engagement ring.The pair were supposed to get married in September 2003 in Santa Barbara, California, but keeping the wedding private was a massive challenge.

Us reported at the time that about 400 guests were invited by phone and informed that final details would be hand-delivered four days before the ceremony.Just days before they were set to say “I do” in September 2003, Affleck and Lopez called off the wedding.“Due to the excessive media attention surrounding our wedding, we have decided to postpone the date,” Lopez and Affleck said in a joint statement at the time. “When we found ourselves seriously contemplating