Jersey Girl writer-director Kevin Smith got a big birthday surprise while in Las Vegas to tape a “Roadside Attractions” segment for the Tonight Show:
His usually low-key wife, Jen, gathered about 20 of his closest friends at the Little White Chapel to share in a surprise vow-renewal ceremony. “The good
Catholic in me is ashamed to confess that there was no wearing of the white,” Smith tells us. He happened to wear one of his custom basketball shooters,
with his wife’s maiden name (Schwalbach) across the back and embroidered with his nickname, “Jen’s Bitch.” During the ceremony, the couple’s 5-year-old
daughter, Harley, stood between them – much as she did during their first wedding, since Jen was 8 months pregnant at the time. And afterward, actor Jason
Mewes (who plays Jay to Smith’s character Silent Bob) “almost broke his neck trying to get out of the way of catching the bouquet,” Smith says. Pal Ben
Affleck couldn’t make the party, but he did take the time to send treats: Champagne and chocolate-covered strawberries for the bride, brownies and skim
milk for the groom.