Jennifer Lopez shared her wedding song and romantic details from her second wedding to Ben

“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 any of us could have imagined,” she wrote. Jennifer Lopez Affleck. “We weren’t just marrying each other; we were marrying these children into a new family.”

Throughout the letter, she repeats that the weekend was a “full circle” moment for the couple, who had planned to marry in the same Georgia home nearly two decades earlier. “Ben told me that the chords of the song and see Marc Cohn they impacted him and allowed him to feel the way both paths we had traveled found their way, inevitable, inexorable and perfectly together,” she said. “And when he saw me appear at the top of the stairs, that moment made absolute sense already. At the time it seemed impossible to believe, like the best dream, in which the only thing you want is to never wake up”.

“I would have probably had a lot of the same thoughts if I hadn’t been so focused on not tripping over my dress, but when I got close enough to see her face, it made the same wonderful sense to me. Some old wounds healed that day and the The weight of the past was finally lifted from our shoulders. Full circle, and not in the way we had planned. Better.”

Are you crying already? Nope? Great, me neither.

In addition to the ceremony recap, Lopez Affleck also shared more photos from the entire wedding weekend, from the rehearsal dinner to the reception and brunch the next morning (she’s pretty proud of the brunch decor, by the way). . Sure, we may not have gotten the details on that new song she sang to Ben, but as always, the 53-year-old came prepared to give people what they want: A Happy Benifer.

Article originally published in Glamor US, glamour.com, adapted by Paola Juárez.