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Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez 's wedding festivities are officially underway.
On Wednesday, the soon-to-be newlyweds were seen arriving astatine the Aman Hotel successful Venice, Italy via water-taxi.
As she stepped off, a glowing Sanchez turned to the assemblage to springiness a speedy wave.
JEFF BEZOS, LAUREN SANCHEZ TO WED DURING THREE-DAY VENICE EXTRAVAGANZA THAT'S SPARKING LOCAL FURY
Lauren Sánchez waves to onlookers up of her upcoming wedding to Jeff Bezos. (Getty Images)
According to aggregate reports, the mates decided to alteration 1 of their wedding venues successful Venice due to the fact that of information concerns and imaginable protests.
Amazon's laminitis Jeff Bezos arrives astatine the Aman Hotel successful Venice up of his wedding to Lauren Sanchez. (MARCO BERTORELLO/AFP via Getty Images)
The mates had planned to clasp a wedding enactment astatine the historical Scuola Grande della Misericordia successful the Cannaregio section of the city, but are present said to beryllium moving it to the harder-to-reach Arsenale, a erstwhile shipyard, which is wholly surrounded by h2o and lone reachable by vessel erstwhile connecting bridges are raised, BBC News and Reuters reported.
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A number of celebrities are invited to the wedding festivities, which stay a concealed but are expected to footwear disconnected connected Thursday and extremity Saturday successful the picturesque Italian city.
Jared Kushner and woman Ivanka Trump participate a h2o taxi aft arriving astatine Marco Polo airdrome connected Jun. 24, 2025 successful Venice, Italy. (Luigi Iorio/GC Images)
Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner arrived successful Italy connected Tuesday up of the festivities.
The mates traveled by vessel from the Marco Polo airdrome successful Venice to the St. Regis hotel. Trump wore an off-white cropped apical with a matching agelong skirt. The outfit featured red-orange detailing.
The arrivals spark resemblance to George Clooney and woman Amal's Venice wedding successful 2014.
The powerfulness mates were famously photographed riding a water-taxi up of their nuptials, which included an awesome impermanent database of A-list celebrities.
George Clooney and his woman Amal cruise the Grand Canal aft leaving the Aman luxury Hotel successful Venice, Italy, Sunday, Sept. 28, 2014. (AP Photo/Luigi Costantini)
As guests proceed to get for the Bezos-Sanchez wedding, much and much Venetian citizens person voiced their frustrations implicit the lawsuit that could perchance airs a menace to a metropolis that is already impacted by wide tourism.
However, contempt the ongoing backlash, the couple's wedding planners told Fox News Digital that Bezos and Sanchez specifically instructed them to minimize the disruptions to the champion of their quality retired of respect to the locals.
"As lawsuit organizers who person been moving successful Venice for implicit 24 years, we consciousness obliged to acceptable the grounds consecutive fixed the misinformation, untruths and misunderstandings circulating astir the Bezos wedding," the squad astatine Lanza & Baucina Limited said successful a statement. "From the outset, instructions from our lawsuit and our ain guiding principles were abundantly clear: the minimizing of immoderate disruption to the city, the respect for its residents and institutions and the overwhelming employment of locals successful the crafting of the events.
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Lauren Sánchez included a photograph of her kissing Jeff Bezos connected the feature successful her autumn photograph dump posted successful December 2024. (Lauren Sanchez/Instagram)
"Rumors of ‘taking over’ the metropolis are wholly mendacious and diametrically opposed to our goals and to reality," the connection continued. "No exaggerated quantity of h2o taxis oregon gondolas person ever been booked, the fig of taxis reserved being proportionate for the fig of guests. Before the caller quality of protests arose, we had worked for determination to beryllium minimal antagonistic interaction oregon disruption to the lives of Venetians and the city’s visitors.
"We person ever acknowledged the wider statement and captious issues surrounding the city’s future, and from the outset our lawsuit has been honored to enactment the metropolis and its all-important lagoon done non-profit organizations and associated projects," the connection concluded.
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Mayor Luigi Brugnaro told the Associated Press that the metropolis is "very proud."
"We are precise proud," Brugnaro said. "I don’t cognize if I volition person clip [to conscionable Bezos and Sánchez], oregon if helium will, to conscionable and shingle hands, but it’s an grant that they chose Venice. Venice erstwhile again reveals itself to beryllium a planetary stage."
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Fox News Digital's Emily Trainham, Lauryn Overhultz and Brie Stimson contributed to this post.
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