Ben and Jen jet away for wedding
During break from Garner’s shoot, couple also confirm baby on the way
It’s official! Jennifer Garner is pregnant and married.
The Alias star left the Squamish area with finance Ben Affleck Tuesday, sometime after finishing her scenes for the movie Catch and Release, and according to Us Weekly, the two were married late Wednesday at the Parrot Cay Resort in the tropical island group of Turks and Caicos. The 65-room resort bills itself as “the most exclusive hideaway in the Caribbean.”
While there had been widespread speculation that Garner was pregnant, with recent photos showing a decidedly prominent “bump,” the couple’s handlers only just fessed up to her condition yesterday when they confirmed the wedding.
Garner, 33, had spent Monday and Tuesday filming outdoor fishing and camping scenes in Squamish with Affleck, 32, at her side.
While many had speculated they would tie the knot this weekend –it was pretty much the only break in Garner’s busy Catch and Release schedule — no press sources had gotten wind of any preparations, and all sources on the set expressed surprise at the announcement.
It appears that nobody else from the film’s cast or crew were on hand, even though close friends like Kevin Smith and Chris Moore are involved in the Vancouver movie.
Smith is co-starring with Garner while Moore, who is Affeck’s partner in Project Greenlight, a reality series giving a chance to first-time filmmakers, is here with his wife Jenno Topping, a producer on Catch and Release.
Reports say, however, that Victor Garber, Garner’s co-star in Alias, was at the Parrot Cay service.
Garner, who arrived here in mid-May, has spent almost all of her down time in Vancouver, instead of commuting to her home in Los Angeles on weekends. Affleck has been on hand the majority of the time, since he (mostly) wrapped up his role in Truth, Justice and the American Way in Toronto in early June.
Other than one weekend trip to New York and two to Los Angeles, the celebrity A-listers have been hanging around Deep Cove, walking Martha Stewart (a yellow lab) in the park, checking out a few movies, dining on Granville Island and working out at a downtown gym. Garner’s also been known to catch a few rays (or maybe sprays) at a tanning salon while Affleck orders his usual iced coffee with sugar-free vanilla at a nearby Starbucks.
Garfleck even spent one Saturday afternoon at Wal-Mart.
“They were pushing a cart around just like everybody else,” marvels one observer.
Their purchases? A game of Scrabble and a case of Diet Coke.
Affeck’s life with Garner is obviously a far cry from his partying ways of days gone by. The handsome star, who has shot a number of films in Vancouver, including 1999’s Reindeer Games, Paycheck in 2003, and the yet-to-be-released Man About Town, previously had a well-publicized reputation of late-night partying at strip clubs.
An after-hours party with some of the exotic dancers from Brandi’s made headlines in the National Enquirer when Affleck was still engaged to former fiancee Jennifer Lopez.
Affleck and Garner, who first met when they filmed Daredevil in Los Angeles, started dating in Vancouver when Affleck came here to shoot a cameo in Elektra, Garner’s Daredevil spinoff. Garner had just split with Alias co-star Michael Vartan. The cameo was never used.
It’s Affleck’s first trip up the aisle, but it’s Garner’s second marriage. She divorced actor Scott Foley in 2003.
