
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez leave the Aman Venice hotel, ahead of their expected wedding, in Venice, Italy, June 25, 2025. — Reuters
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The most expected wedding ceremonies for Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and journalist Lauren Sanchez officially began in Venice, which had tight security, VIP guests’ galaxy, and local enthusiasm and protests.
Three days’ cheerful festivals were seen today a stable series of A List visitors, including Microsoft’s co -founder Bill Gates, actors and Lando Bloom, and Jordanian Queen Rania al -Abdullah.
They are already on the star -staded list of early participants, including media Mogul Opera Winfrey, and reality television personalities Chris Jenner, Kim Kardashian, and Khloe Kardashian.
In adding a political dimension to the guest list, Ivanka Trump and the daughter of United States President Donald Trump and son -in -law, Jord Kushner, who arrived early Saturday and allegedly enjoyed some of the pre -wedding and recovery.
The program is expected to be widely known as “wedding wedding” with 200 to 250 lemonade that expects entertainment, politics, and financing, whose estimates have increased to about $ 50 million.
However, the royal matter has not been without a dispute. It has given rise to a passionate debate about its impact on Venice, one of the world’s most famous and delicate cities.
Some people, the spectacle, highlights the concern that Venus is being rapidly changed in a special playground for the most wealthy at the expense of his local character. On the contrary, many of the venous and visitors are accepting the greatness of the event, admirers are admired by both the main economic injections and the important economic injections.
On Thursday, a worker climbed on one of the poles in the central St. Mark Square, in which a banner was set up with the words “1 % of the world ruins” to protest the presence of billionaire Bezos in Venice.
On Thursday evening, guests were being assembled in clusters of Madonna Deloto, a medieval church in the central district of Kunarjio, hosted masterpieces through a 16th -century painter Tantorito.
The City Council banned pedestrians and water traffic from 4:30 pm to 4:30 pm to provide security and isolation for the party.
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Bezos, 61, and 55 -year -old Sanchez arrived in Venice on Wednesday via the helicopter and resided at the luxury Aman Hotel, where the Grand Canal -watching rooms at least 4,000 euros (, 4,686) each night.
He has no legal status under the Italian law, according to a senior official in the city, on a small island in San Georgio, in front of St. Mark’s Square on Friday.
Some people have speculated that the couple has already married legally in the United States, saved them from the Italian marriage bureaucracy.
Events will conclude on Saturday that one of the main wedding halls will be held at the Hall of Arsenal, which was converted to an art space in the eastern Castilo district.
The “no place for Bezos” movement is planning more protests against the sale of Venice, but not all locals are harassed in any way.
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Politicians, hotels and other residents say that high -quality events, rather than low -spending day -trips, have a better way to support the local economy, and dismiss the protesters as a proportional minority.
“If you take a look at what Bezos’ wedding brings for the good of Venus, there are only benefits and no disadvantages,” the local tour leader, told Reuters.
He added, “If anything is different, it is because of the demonstrators … they do not realize that these are the ones who are interrupting the city’s quiet life.”
Venus has hosted several VIP marriages. American actor George Clooney and Human Rights lawyer Amal Alamuddin tied the marriage bond there in 2014, and Indian billionaires Vineta Agarwal and Muqtat Tija did so in 2011 without significant obstacles.
No. 4 in the list of e -commerce giant Amazon’s Executive Chair and Forbes’ billionaires, Bezos engaged to Sanchez in 2023, four years after the end of his 25 -year marriage with McKenzie Scott.