Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and journalist Lauren Sánchez are getting married Friday in Venice, Italy. The multi-day affair, dubbed the “Marriage ceremony of the Century,” is reportedly costing upwards of $55 million and has drawn movie star visitors from world wide, in addition to vocal native protestors.
Celebrities and enterprise leaders have arrived to have a good time the couple, and the visitor checklist is reportedly set at round 200 folks. Kim Kardashian, Khloé Kardashian, Kris Jenner, Oprah Winfrey, Orlando Bloom, Diane von Furstenberg, Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner, Kering CEO François-Henri Pinault, and Tom Brady have all been noticed.
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The marriage ceremony will happen on the non-public island of San Giorgio on Friday evening, in accordance to The Guardian. The marriage reception, nonetheless, is reportedly on Saturday in the Arsenale, a historic advanced with fortified partitions (after being modified from a extra public spot attributable to safety issues). The occasion will function a efficiency by Matteo Bocelli, son of Andrea Bocelli.
Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez are seen leaving the Aman Resort in Venice forward of Jeff Bezos’ wedding ceremony on June 26, 2025, in Venice, Italy. (Photograph by Stefano Mazzola/GC Pictures)
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez gesture in path of a Bezos’ lookalike from the taxi boat on the Aman Resort in Venice on June 26, 2026. ANDREA PATTARO/AFP | Getty Pictures
Oprah Winfrey leaves the Gritti Palace Resort on the marriage day of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos with Lauren Sanchez, in Venice on June 27, 2025. (Photograph by Stefano Rellandini / AFP | Getty)
Kris Jenner, Khloe Kardashian, and Kim Kardashian stand on a taxi boat as they depart the Gritti Palace Resort forward of the marriage of Amazon’s founder Jeff Bezos with Lauren Sanchez in Venice on June 26, 2026. MARCO BERTORELLO/AFP through Getty Pictures
Kering Ceo, François-Henri Pinault, sits on a ship at Venice Marco Polo airport forward of Jeff Bezos’ wedding ceremony on June 27, 2025. (Photograph by MARCO BERTORELLO/AFP through Getty Pictures)
Lauren Sanchez leaves the Aman Resort on her wedding ceremony day with Amazon’s founder, Jeff Bezos, in Venice on June 27, 2025. (Photograph by STEFANO RELLANDINI/AFP through Getty Pictures)
Different notable names anticipated to attend are Leonardo DiCaprio, Mick Jagger, and leisure mogul Barry Diller. CBS Information studies that a minimum of 95 non-public planes requested touchdown permission at Venice’s Marco Polo Airport for the lengthy weekend.
In the meantime, a few dozen native organizations—together with housing advocates, anti-cruise ship campaigners, and college teams—have united underneath the banner “No Area for Bezos.”
They are saying that their metropolis is being handled as a billionaire’s playground and highlights wealth inequity. Their small-scale demonstrations have included hanging protest banners on iconic landmarks, and a Bezos dummy was floated down the Grand Canal in an Amazon field clutching money.
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Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and journalist Lauren Sánchez are getting married Friday in Venice, Italy. The multi-day affair, dubbed the “Marriage ceremony of the Century,” is reportedly costing upwards of $55 million and has drawn movie star visitors from world wide, in addition to vocal native protestors.
Celebrities and enterprise leaders have arrived to have a good time the couple, and the visitor checklist is reportedly set at round 200 folks. Kim Kardashian, Khloé Kardashian, Kris Jenner, Oprah Winfrey, Orlando Bloom, Diane von Furstenberg, Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner, Kering CEO François-Henri Pinault, and Tom Brady have all been noticed.
Associated: Bezos-Sánchez Marriage ceremony Attracts Enterprise, Protests to Venice
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