Ben Afflecktook his time with his wedding vows.
After tying the knot inan intimate Las Vegas settingin July, Affleck and wifeJennifer Lopezcelebrated with a larger ceremony last month at his house in Georgia with friends and family in attendance. PalKevin Smith, whopreviously told PEOPLE the day was “picture perfect,” shared details onThe ViewTuesday about Affleck’s lengthy vows.
“He’s one of my favorite writers on the planet. He wrote his vows — they [both] wrote their vows, but he wrote a big speech that he read to her at the wedding, which was breathtaking,” said Smith. “And it was long. That’s one of my favorite things about Ben; he’s his own biggest fan, so he wrote like a 12-page speech. I was like, ‘Keep talking, keep talking.’ "
“It was wonderful. Very inspiring,“theClerks IIIdirectoradded. “I was happy for them. They deserve it.”
Smith, 52, said he was “bawling” the entire time, and joked “even a cold-hearted robot would walk away from that ceremony like, ‘Oh my god, true love can happen!’ " The director added, “It was a real fairy-tale ending. And she has impeccable taste, the whole place looked amazing. She looked fantastic. They all looked fantastic.”
Kevin Smith; Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez.GETTY (2)
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Smith recently told PEOPLE thatAffleck “never looked betterthan he’s looked his entire life,” joking that the actor was like a “God cut from marble” and describing him as “healthy [and] happy” at the ceremony. He added that Affleck was “radiating f—ing joy as he looked down the aisle and saw the woman of his dreams coming toward him, and she radiated it right back.”
In herOn the JLo newsletterabout the Georgia wedding, Lopez, 53, shared more details about what Affleck, 50, said on the special day.
“‘This is heaven. Right Here. We’re in it now.’ That is one of my favorite lines that Ben wrote from a movie he directed calledLive By Night. He also said it the night of our wedding reception in his speech, and I thought … how perfect,” she wrote.
source: people.com
