One year after the two officially became husband and wife, Jennifer Lopez is commemorating her secret Las Vegas wedding with Ben Affleck with a song.
In her fan newsletter, On the JLo, the multi-hyphenate shared lyrics for a song titled “Midnight Trip to Vegas.” The song detailed the stress that comes with planning a big Hollywood wedding (“It’s crowded with families and agents / Room reservations / Which destination / Paps’ helicopters / Event of the ages”). Lopez and Affleck’s solution? Taking their blended family on a midnight road trip to Las Vegas, where they could get married without the rest of the world knowing (“Didn’t tell a soul ’bout how it’s goin’ down tonight”).
The lyrics reflect the couple’s real Vegas wedding, which took place in July 2022. For the occasion, Lopez’s kids, twins Emme and Max Muñiz, joined the couple for their nuptials.
The “Let’s Get Loud” singer previously revealed that her and Affleck’s first experience wedding planning 20 years ago inspired their decision to get hitched in Vegas. “This time, I absolutely had a little PTSD. I was like, Is this happening? Is this really happening? And we were so happy, and of course, it was happening, but I just felt the wedding was so stressful,” she said on Jimmy Kimmel Live! “Ben just says, ‘F**k it, let’s just go to Vegas and get married tonight.’”
Lopez teased the song in her latest Instagram post, in which she shared a few selfies of herself in the bejeweled Valentino minidress she wore during her anniversary date with Affleck on Sunday.
“One year since our Midnight Trip To Vegas … 🤍♠️❤️ Go to On The JLo for a special surprise… #ThisIsMeNow,” she wrote in the caption.
Read the full lyrics to the song below:
I always dreamed that I’d find somebody like you
We’re drowning
In orchid arrangements
Dresses and pastries
What if it’s raining, yeah?
Is this what we’ve been dreaming of?
It’s crowded with families and agents
Room reservations
Which destination
Paps helicopters
Event of the ages
Caught in the matrix
Then you whispered in my ear
Said let’s get out of here
We can disappear tonight
What about a
Midnight trip to Vegas
Just me and you baby
Throw the kids in the back
Of the pink Cadillac
And us in the bathroom changing
Midnight trip to Vegas
Both our hearts are racin’
I’ll pick you up late
We don’t have to wait
Yeah let’s do something crazy
Woohoo woohoo woohoo ooo
Woohoo woohoo woohoo ooo
We could be driving right now
20 miles into the desert by now
Your hand on my thigh
Laughin’ ’til we cry
Didn’t tell a soul ’bout how it’s goin’ down tonight
Top down singing Freddie Mercury
Waiting in the line at the DMV
“Just married” on the window
So glad that we could keep it simple
Then I whispered in your ear
I’m so glad we’re here
Dancing with our fears tonight
On a Midnight trip to Vegas
Just me and you baby
Throw the kids in the back
Of the pink Cadillac
And us in the bathroom changin’
Midnight trip to Vegas
Both our hearts are racin’
I’ll pick you up late
We don’t have to wait
Yeah let’s do something crazy
Woohoo woohoo woohoo ooo
Woohoo woohoo woohoo ooo
I always dreamed that I’d find somebody like you
What about a
Midnight trip to Vegas
Just me and you baby
Throw the kids in the back
Of the pink Cadillac
And us in the bathroom changing
Midnight trip to Vegas
Both our hearts are racin’
I’ll pick you up late
We don’t have to wait
Yeah let’s do something crazy
Woohoo woohoo woohoo ooo
Woohoo woohoo woohoo ooo
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