Ruben B. Hughes 
Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck got married in Las Vegas this weekend. Lopez wore two dresses for the occasion. The first was a classic floor-length white dress with a high neckline that she wore in one of her movies, according to Lopez’s website.
“I’ve had this dress for so many years, and I just saved it, saved it, saved it, and now I’m wearing it on my wedding day,” Lopez wrote, without elaborating on the movie.
For the ceremony, Lopez changed into a Zuhair Murad dress with a veil and off-the-shoulder sleeves. Murad also designed Lopez’s beaded dress from the 2022 film “Marry Me.” Affleck joined her at the premiere of this music-filled romantic comedy.
The question is, who old film is the first dress of? Lopez, who is a prolific actor in addition to being an entertainer and performer, has worn numerous wedding dresses in movies over the years.
Some of J. Lo’s Best Movies Are Also Romantic Movies on weddings, like the recent movie “Marry Me” and the classic “The Wedding Planner.” Lopez, 52, is also set to star in the upcoming ‘Shotgun Wedding’ film.
So, yes: her filmography has an unmistakable nuptial theme. Fittingly, she also starred in a movie alongside husband Affleck, though “Gigli” doesn’t have a wedding scene. The stars announced their second engagement in April 2022 nearly 20 years after their first engagement in 2002.
“The Wedding Planner” (2001)
Mary Fiore, Lopez’s character in this classic, may have been an unwitting trailblazer. A wedding planner, Mary does what she advises her clients against: marrying the wrong person. At her father’s request, she married a childhood friend, Mossimo (don’t worry, the right the guy is not far behind).
For the ceremony, Mary wears a white boat neck dress – which looks a lot like the Givenchy dress Meghan Markle wore at her 2018 wedding to Prince Harry.
“I received a lot of texts on Meghan Markle’s wedding dress“said Pam Chilton, the film’s costume designer. Charm. “I’m like, ‘Well, I’m sure that’s a coincidence. But she was at a good rom-com age when the movie came out – she could have watched it at sleepovers!
‘Maid in Manhattan’ (2002)
Technically, Lopez isn’t wearing a wedding dress in “Maid in Manhattan.” But her long, light pink chiffon evening dress could pass as a wedding dress for an unconventional bride.
Marisa (Lopez), a housekeeper at a hotel, wears the dress at the end of a two-day whirlwind romance with hotel guest Christopher Marshall (Ralph Fiennes). Christopher mistakes her for a guest after seeing her in a pristine all-white ensemble with a Dolce and Gabbana coat and wide-leg pants (which Lopez may have recreated during a red carpet look in 2022).
Talk to InStyle at the time of the film’s release, costume designer Albert Wolsky called the film a “Cinderella story”, and the dress was chosen in that mood.
“Enough” (2002)
“Enough” may feature a Lopez in a tulle wedding dress, but it’s not a romantic comedy. In fact, the wedding scene symbolizes the beginning of Slim’s (Jennifer Lopez) problems. Once she marries Mitch Hiller (Billy Campbell), it’s that much harder to leave him.
A thriller with an all-too-real premise, “Enough” follows Slim’s efforts to escape his marriage after Mitch becomes physically abusive.
‘Monster in Law’ (2005)
As with so many rom-coms, the question in “Monster in Law” is whether the couple will make it down the aisle. But the tension here is not between the bride and groom. It’s between Lopez’s character, Charlie Cantilini, and her future mother-in-law, Violet Fields, played by Jane Fonda.
Through a mix of icy intimidation and manipulation, Violet does what she can to stop Charlie from wearing a wedding dress. Of course, eventually she does – a white ball gown with gloves.
The only problem? Purple also decided to wear a white dress with gloves for the ceremony.
‘The Singing’ (2006)
After starring as legendary singer Selena Quintanilla in “Selena” (1997), Lopez played another real-life figure in the music business in “El Cantante.” This time, she’s Nilda “Puchi” Lavoe, wife of salsa legend Héctor Lavoe (played by Marc Anthony, Lopez’s husband at the time).
“Marry Me” (2022)
The dress in “Marry Me” is meant for spectacle, as it is part of the film’s wedding-themed plot. In the film — which is getting a little meta — Lopez plays an international pop star named Kat Valdez with a hit single called… wait for it… “Marry Me.”
She is supposed to marry her boyfriend, another pop star, on stage when rumors of cheating break out, and she decides to pick a random spectator from the crowd, who takes the form of Owen Wilson.
The whole time, Kat wore a metallic dress that weighed – according to Variety – 95 pounds. Costume designer Caroline Duncan told the outlet that it took “five people to carry it and an entourage to get Jennifer in and out.”
The dress was from Zuhair Murad’s bridal collection and, according to Variety, had “nine layers of silk taffeta, horsehair and tulle” as well as “sparkling crystals, silver, ruffles, embroidery and lace”.
Lopez didn’t wear this cumbersome number at her wedding to Affleck, but she did wearing a dress by Murad.
‘Shotgun Wedding’ (2022)
“Shotgun Wedding” hasn’t been released yet, but early photos show Lopez in a wedding gone seriously wrong, as evidenced by her stained dress and shocked look.
The film stars Lopez and Josh Duhamel as a couple who bring their family and friends to an exotic destination for a location wedding. Then the whole wedding party is taken hostage.
Yes, the premise is potentially dark – but Jennifer Salke, head of Amazon Prime studios, indicated that the tone is light, saying the film is a mix of action, comedy and romance, for Variety.
Honorable Mention: ‘Selena’ (1997)
Lopez never wears a wedding dress in the biopic “Selena,” but the movie Is feature a memorable engagement scene. Faced with resistance from her family for their relationship, Lopez-as-Selena Quintanilla – then a famous singer – urges her boyfriend and bandmate Chris Perez (Jon Seda) to elope, while (conveniently) wearing an outfit entirely white. The real Quintanilla and Perez married in 1992, three years before his tragic death in a shooting at the age of 23.
