Follow makes excellent! Jennifer Lopez‘s intensive filmography has offered the actress a chance to explore many roles — together with a number of probabilities to stroll down the aisle.

In 2001, Lopez got to wear a wedding dress whereas starring alongside Matthew McConaughey and Justin Chambers in The Wedding Planner. In honor of the movie’s 20-year anniversary, the singer mirrored on how important it was to explore onscreen romance.

“You’re very conscious that you simply’re doing one thing that may convey happiness [that will make people] dream a bit of bit about real love and discovering that. That’s everyone’s quest and search in life is to seek out your home, the place you belong, and these motion pictures positively do this,” the Hustlers actress advised McConaughey throughout a joint Instagram Dwell in January 2021. “I feel individuals obtained away from desirous to have that for some cause as a result of they wished issues to be actual…. how soiled can we make it. How hardcore can it’s?”

Lopez added: “As soon as life will get hardcore prefer it did this previous 12 months [due to the COVID-19 pandemic], it will get actually powerful, and actuality actually hits you…. you sort of crave that once more, and that is likely one of the joys of having the ability to reminisce on this film right now and hope that we’ve got some extra like that.”

The New York native later placed on a marriage gown once more for Marry Me — which explored a very different love story. Within the movie, Lopez’s character is supposed to marry her fiancé (Maluma) onstage, however moments earlier than their reside ceremony, she finds out that he was unfaithful. As an alternative, she decides to trade vows with a random man within the viewers (Owen Wilson), which kicks off an sudden connection.

“There’s loads about [Kat] that solely someone like me might perceive, proper?” Lopez advised Rolling Stone in February 2022. “I needed to preserve reminding myself: what it’s prefer to be onstage in entrance of an enviornment full of individuals and one thing embarrassing occurs. That’s occurred to you. What do you do? What does it really feel like when all of it falls aside and also you go dwelling and also you’re on the TV and so they’re making enjoyable of you as if it’s not painful? How does that really feel? what? You’ve cried in a puddle on the ground too. That’s what it looks like. Or going underwater at that time the place you’re feeling such as you’re drowning, suffocating in your personal selections that you understand are usually not the suitable ones.”

Offscreen, nonetheless, Lopez has found success in her personal life by means of the years. Lopez first tied the knot with Ojani Noa from 1997 to 1998. She was later married to Cris Judd from 2001 to 2003 and Marc Anthony from 2004 to 2014. Earlier than she obtained along with Anthony — with whom she shares twins Max and Emme — the performer was set to stroll down the aisle with Ben Affleck.

The couple were previously engaged between 2002 and 2004 earlier than they determined to name it quits. After practically twenty years, Lopez and Affleck reunited in Might 2021 following her break up from ex-fiancé Alex Rodriguez.

The True Love writer later introduced that the Argo director proposed for a second time. “Saturday night time whereas at my favourite place on earth (within the bubble tub), my lovely love obtained on one knee and proposed,” she wrote in her “On the JLo” publication in April 2022. “I used to be taken completely off guard and simply seemed in his eyes smiling and crying on the identical time.”

Three months later, Us confirmed that Lopez and Affleck tied the knot in a Las Vegas chapel. “We did it. Love is gorgeous. Love is form. And it seems love is affected person. Twenty years affected person,” she wrote in her publication in July 2022. “Ultimately it was the absolute best marriage ceremony we might have imagined. One we dreamed of way back and one made actual (within the eyes of the state, Las Vegas, a pink convertible and each other) at very, very lengthy final.”

On the time, the Shades of Blue alum teased that one of her two wedding gowns came from a past film.

“I really feel wonderful. I’m so excited. I’ve had this gown for thus a few years, and I’ve simply been saving it, saving it, saving it, and now I’m carrying it on my marriage ceremony day,” she defined in an Instagram video posted by hairstylist Chris Appleton on the time.

Scroll on for a breakdown of Lopez’s onscreen weddings: