Jennifer Lopez married singer Marc Anthony in secret on Saturday, after telling guests they were invited to a "beautiful" party at her Los Angeles home.
Pictures in British newspapers show the couple, both dressed in white, holding hands at makeshift alter under a flower-covered canopy after walking down a petal-strewn aisle in the garden of Lopez's luxury Beverly Hills mansion.
Vivaldi's "Four Seasons" was played by a string quartet as Lopez, 33, wearing an ivory lace dress and Neil Lane jewelry worth $360,000, was escorted down the aisle by her dad David.
Latin crooner Ricky Martin later serenaded the couple and their 35 guests -- who were told they were only invited to a "beautiful afternoon party."
A friend says, "We had no idea that this was planned until we got a call to be at her home on Saturday.
"There are rumors she may be pregnant. She is certainly glowing and looked ecstatically happy."
The union comes just five months after Lopez split from former fiance Ben Affleck, whom she planned to marry in a canceled ceremony last September -- and just days after singer Anthony, 35, finalized his divorced from his ex-wife, and the mother of his two children, Dayanara Torres. This is Lopez's third marriage.
Affleck was accosted by Us Weekly magazine reporters on Sunday outside his mother Chris' home in Cambridge, Mass.
Despite flashing a two thumbs up, when asked how he felt about Lopez's third marriage, Affleck refused to comment.
His spokesman says, "The world's got a few other problems. Leave him alone."
Lopez's former boyfriend Sean "P. Diddy" Combs says, "If you want to get married I'm with you and congratulations to you. Congratulations to her because she's my friend."
Jennifer Lopez reportedly married Marc Anthony in a small ceremony at her home on Sunday, less than six months after she ended her high-profile engagement to Ben Affleck.
Both Us Weekly and People magazines reported the nuptials.
For Lopez, 33, the marriage would mark her third - the first was to waiter Ojani Noa in 1997, the second to dancer Cris Judd in 2001. Noa lasted a little more than a year; Judd for nine months.
Anthony, the Latin singing sensation, divorced former Miss Universe Dayanara Torres last week in the Dominican Republic. The pair, wed in 2000, have two young sons, and he has a daughter from a previous relationship.
"Her family is saying, 'Good riddance' to him," a source told the New York Daily News.
"I think it's cruel for Marc to remarry so quickly like this. But maybe it brings Dayanara some peace."
Lopez - the singer-actress-fashonista more famously known as J.Lo - has kept her romance with Anthony, 34, decidedly more low-key than her engagement to Ben Affleck, which was a magnet for tabloid attention.
The 18-month "Bennifer" romance featured a near-wedding, but it was scuttled at the last minute with the couple blaming excessive media attention.
Affleck flashed two thumbs up today when asked by Us magazine how he felt about her wedding to Anthony.
The actor, who was released from the hospital on J.Lo's wedding day, reportedly was recuperating from bronchitis at his mother's home in Cambridge, Massachusetts, when the press caught up with him.
"The world's got a few other problems," said a spokesman for Affleck, the Boston boy whose high-profile engagement to the Bronx bombshell crumbled less than six months ago.
"Leave him alone."
Lopez also famously dated Sean P Diddy Combs - back when he was still "Puffy" - for two years before the couple broke up in February 2001.
It was unclear when Anthony and Lopez were engaged. The two first dated in 1999 and had been seen together since Lopez's split from Affleck. Lopez had reportedly been wearing a dazzling new diamond engagement ring for several weeks.
White tents and an altar were set up outside Lopez's house on Saturday, with folding chairs on both sides of an aisle, Us reported.
Sources said Lopez's family did not know what they were in for when they arrived at her Los Angeles estate.
"They thought they were going to a party on a summer afternoon. They didn't dress up. I think Jennifer was glad they didn't wear tracksuits," a close friend of the newlyweds told The News.
The two were married shortly after 6pm before about 40 guests, Us reported. Lopez's mother, Guadalupe, arrived at the event in a limousine with Anthony, Entertainment Tonight reported.
"She's married, she's happy. But she really wants a moment of privacy. For one day, she was a normal girl - as close as Jennifer Lopez can get to being a normal girl," a friend told The News.
The bride's dress reportedly was designed by Vera Wang, who was said to be miffed after she made a dress for the foiled Lopez-Affleck wedding.
Though the wedding party was simple, it wasn't plain.
As J.Lo said "I do," she was covered in $US7 million ($A10 million) in jewellery, including a platinum and diamond necklace designed by Neil Lane. She wore earrings, bracelets and hair ornaments to match.
J.Lo husband No.1, bartender Ojani Noa, who has bad-mouthed Lopez in the past, could not be reached for comment. Husband No.2, dancer Cris Judd, was not in a good mood today.
"I don't want to talk about her," said Judd, yesterday was at a party a few kilometres from the wedding.
"I'm going back to sleep now."
His father, Larry Judd, was too angry to snooze.
"Here she goes again," he told The News. "I don't have any respect for her at all. How could anybody else?"
Anthony and Lopez were both born in New York.
Us reported that the wedding was co-ordinated by Sharon Sachs, who also planned Lopez's wedding to Judd and the cancelled wedding to Affleck in Santa Barbara.
Lopez was on screen most recently as Affleck's wife in Jersey Girl. She dies minutes into the film.
Anthony, a salsa superstar who has also had crossover success, is releasing a Spanish album, Amar Sin Mentiras, on Tuesday. He has also dabbled in acting, and appeared in the recent Denzel Washington film Man on Fire.
I imagine that JLo's biological clock has just struck her a huge wake-up call... hence the hasty wedding. She's entering that childbearing phase where infertility and birth defects start to become problematic more often than not. She will be referred to as an "elderly" primipara (first-time mom) when she gets pregnant.
It would be his third, he has two with his ex-wife.
I wonder what she thinks of all this? Everyone is trying to get a reaction from Ben Affleck and J-Lo's other ex-husbands. I want to know how Marc's wife feels. She probably wants to slap them both silly. She can get in line
Newlywed Hollywood couple Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony are reportedly feuding over their conflicting views on starting a family.
Friends of the sexy singers believe their five-day-long marriage is doomed because the diva is desperate to have children while Anthony mocked her maternal skills and already has two children by his ex-wife -- former Miss Universe Dayanara Torres -- and one from a previous relationship.
A close source tells Scottish newspaper Daily Record, "Jen is anxious to have kids, but Marc isn't as keen because he has three kids already and has done the whole family thing.
"Jen's thinking is that he'll come round to the idea now they are married, but I'm not so sure. She told him how she'd be a great mom, but he just laughed."
Anthony has a 10-year-old daughter Arianna from his ex-girlfriend Debbie Rosado and two tots, Cristian and Ryan, with Torres.
Oops, I was wrong. He does already have three kids. Already three kids to two different mothers, if he has some with J-Lo, thats four (or more) kids to three different woman.
If that was a woman who had four kids to three different men, you know what the reaction would be, but for men it's fine. Thats
THE showbiz world was buzzing yesterday with rumours that newlywed Jennifer Lopez is expecting a baby.
Meanwhile, her new husband Marc Anthony went on American TV and refused to say whether he had wed Lopez.
A spokeswoman for Lopez reportedly told People magazine at the weekend that the singer/actor had married Anthony in California on Saturday.
The spokeswoman's office later confirmed the report was accurate.
According to showbiz gossips, 33-year-old Lopez may have tied the knot because she is pregnant.
The New York Post reported that two separate sources said J-Lo was expecting.
Janice Min, editor-in-chief of US Weekly magazine, which was one of the first to break the news of the Lopez wedding, said: "There have been rumours about a baby on the way. Jennifer has made no secret that she'd love to have children."
But 35-year-old Latin singer Anthony, appearing on NBC TV's Today show, refused to talk about the nuptials. "You all know I don't talk about my personal life," he said. He appeared to be wearing a wedding ring.
Lopez and Anthony were previously an item in April 1999.
You say about Anthony's crop of kids: "If that was a woman who had four kids to three different men, you know what the reaction would be, but for men it's fine." And I'll add that, according to stereotypical machismo standards, it's not only 'fine' for a man to 'sow his wild oats' in this manner, but admired--by men and many women also.
I propose a different way of looking at the thing. Instead of subscribing to either that school of thought or its accompanying one--of thinking that a woman who engages in this manner of progeny proliferation is someone with low morals--perhaps it would be better to think of *anyone*, male or female, who carelessly begets children in this overpopulated world simply as *irresponsible*.
I subscribe to the idea that it is probably fine to reproduce to replace oneself--particularly if great care is taken to protect and raise the one-per-person offspring. It may not be as much riotous fun as a "Cheaper by the Dozen" clan, but it's infinitely more ecologically-friendly. This is provided, of course, that a person isn't stuck on a particular gender of offspring with which to replace oneself. (Gender 'choosiness' is yet another form of deeply rooted macho bias.)
