jJennifer Lopez celebrates one year of marriage with Ben Affleck: while they were preparing and refining the details of their official wedding, the two stars in fact eloped by surprise to Las Vegas to get married in secret in the city of lights. And now, a year later, the two have treated themselves to a dinner together in Beverly Hills. But a social post by the 53-year-old singer and actress to celebrate her wedding anniversary has sparked controversy among fans.
Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck: the wedding a year ago
On July 18, the day of the anniversary of the “secret” wedding, in fact, Jennifer Lopez published a post on Instagram in which she recalls that it passed «one year since our midnight trip to vegas». But the two photographs included in her post only portray her without her husband. A detail? Among the thousands of comments of wishes and congratulations for the wedding anniversary, there was no shortage of mischievous jokes.
Criticism on social media
«Clearly you are not happy at all», wrote for example a follower, evidently referring to the absence of Ben Affleck in the images. And someone else, drawing on the rumors that the couple is in crisis, comments underlining that the single photo is a sign of «an impending divorce».
A love song for Ben Affleck
Actually, in his newsletter sent to followers through the site onthejlo.comJennifer Lopez even shared a song composed for the anniversary and dedicated to her husbandnamed after Midnight Trip to Vegas (and included in the new album This Is Me… Now). The song chronicles the stress and struggles of planning a Hollywood wedding, and explains that the solution was to secretly go to Las Vegas and get married without the world knowing.
And to dispel any doubt, the song begins with a declaration of love to Ben Affleck: «I’ve always dreamed of finding someone like you». And therefore, explaining that «we are drowning in arrangements of orchids, dresses and pastries», he asks himself: «Is this what we were dreaming about?». So he says: «Then you whispered in my ear, you said let’s get out of here. We can disappear tonight, how about a midnight trip to vegas? Just you and me baby, throw the kids in the back of the pink Cadillac. Our hearts are racing, let’s do something crazy.”
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