Ben Affleck, Jennifer Garner’s Steamy, Secret Wedding: A Passionate Response to Bennifer Burn
When Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner tied the knot in a surprise 2005 wedding, the couple opted for a low-key event. In fact, it was so low-key that only Garner, Affleck, and their officiant, Victor Garber, were in attendance. The couple kept their wedding out of the public eye, away from the Bennifer burn that dominated the headlines after Jennifer Lopez and Affleck called off their 2004 engagement.
Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner’s wedding was secret due to his Bennifer burn
Ben Affleck costarred with Garner in 2001’s Pearl Harbor and 2003’s Daredevil. But their romance wasn’t confirmed until October 2004.
In 2005, Affleck asked Garner to marry him. She was already pregnant with their first child, Violet, when they tied the knot in Turks & Caicos in June of the same year, welcoming their first child in December.
After the media spectacle surrounding his impending nuptials to Jennifer Lopez two years prior, the Affleck/ Garner wedding was low-key. Lopez and Affleck, set to wed in September 2003, called off their high-profile wedding days due to intense media intrusion.
Lopez and Affleck subsequently released a statement that read, per ABC News, “Due to the excessive media attention surrounding our wedding, we have decided to postpone the date. When we found ourselves seriously contemplating hiring three separate ‘decoy brides’ at three different locations, we realized that something was awry.”
Therefore, when Affleck and Garner tied the knot, they wanted to keep the moment between them. Neither of their parents were invited to the ceremony. Officiant and Garner’s Alias co-star Victor Garber and his partner Rainer were the only others present.
The event was steamy due to the intense heat. Garner, three months pregnant at the time, was reportedly feeling the temperature more intensely due to her pregnancy.
Jennifer Garner ran into Ben Affleck’s arms on their wedding day
In a 2016 interview with Vanity Fair, Jennifer Garner opened up about her and Ben Affleck‘s elopement. She shared intimate details of their wedding with the outlet.
“I didn’t marry the big fat movie star; I married him,” she says. “And I would go back and remake that decision. I ran down the beach to him, and I would again.”
She continued, “You can’t have these three babies and so much of what we had. He’s the love of my life. What am I going to do about that? He’s the most brilliant person in any room, charismatic, and generous. He’s just a complicated guy.”
Garner concluded, “I always say, ‘When his sun shines on you, you feel it.’ But when the sun is shining elsewhere, it’s cold. He can cast quite a shadow.”
The couple announced their separation just weeks after their 10th wedding anniversary in 2015. Their divorce was finalized in October 2018.
Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck are forever tied together via their children
Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner continue to remain friendly. They are co-parenting children Violet, Fin, and Samuel.
The exes were seen together in August 2024 as they moved Violet into her dorm for her freshman year at Yale University. The family celebrated this milestone by enjoying time together in New Haven, Connecticut, before Violet’s official start date at the Ivy League university.
Affleck once told Parade that co-parenting after divorce took some getting used to. “The hardest and most painful thing that’s ever happened to me in my life was divorce. I didn’t understand quite what that would be, especially with kids.”
Their arrangement today gives Affleck the kids three days a week, so he says he piles his work commitments on the other four so he can be fully present. “It’s just the joy of my life to spend time with them,” he says.
Ben Affleck is currently divorcing Jennifer Lopez. Reportedly, Jennifer Garner is in a long-term relationship with John Miller.
