Affleck and Lopez finalized their wedding ceremony plans, with their ceremony in Santa Barbara on September 14, 2003. Nonetheless, they launched an announcement confirming the postponement of the occasion.
“As a result of extreme media consideration surrounding our wedding ceremony, we’ve got determined to postpone the date,” mentioned the couple. “Once we discovered ourselves critically considering hiring three separate ‘decoy brides’ at three completely different areas, we realized that one thing was awry. We felt what ought to have been a joyful and sacred day might be spoiled for us, our households and our pals.”
In 2021, the He is Simply Not That Into You star opened up about how impolite media protection of Lopez was after they have been nonetheless courting.
“Individuals have been so f—- imply about her — sexist, racist. Ugly, vicious s— was written about her in ways in which should you wrote it now you’ll actually be fired for saying these belongings you mentioned,” he mentioned on The Hollywood Reporter’s “Awards Chatter” podcast. “Now it is like, she’s lionized and revered for the work she did, the place she got here from, what she achieved — as effectively she f—– ought to be!”