Ben Affleck & Jennifer Lopez’s Relationship Timeline

Affleck and Lopez finalized their wedding plans, with their ceremony in Santa Barbara on September 14, 2003. However, they released a statement confirming the postponement of the event.

“Due to the excessive media attention surrounding our wedding, we have decided to postpone the date,” said the couple. “When we found ourselves seriously contemplating hiring three separate ‘decoy brides’ at three different locations, we realized that something was awry. We felt what should have been a joyful and sacred day could be spoiled for us, our families and our friends.”

In 2021, the He’s Just Not That Into You star opened up about how rude media coverage of Lopez was when they were still dating.

“People were so f—- mean about her — sexist, racist. Ugly, vicious s— was written about her in ways that if you wrote it now you would literally be fired for saying those things you said,” he said on The Hollywood Reporter’s “Awards Chatter” podcast. “Now it’s like, she’s lionized and respected for the work she did, where she came from, what she accomplished — as well she f—– should be!”