Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez celebrity-filled party has venue shake-up: report

Jeff Bezos and fiancée Lauren Sánchez person decided to alteration 1 of their wedding venues successful Venice due to the fact that of information concerns and imaginable protests, according to reports. 

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 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.

The metropolis successful caller days has seen increasing protests by radical acrophobic personage guests volition overrun Venice with backstage jets and yachts. Other protesters besides disagree with the Amazon founder’s politics. 

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. 

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Jeff Bezos and fiancée Lauren Sánchez person decided to alteration 1 of their wedding venues successful Venice due to the fact that of information concerns and imaginable protests, according to reports.  (Cindy Ord/MG24/Getty Images for The Met Museum/Vogue)

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.

Kushner kept it casual with a linen fastener down and khaki pants. The erstwhile authorities advisor to father-in-law Donald Trump accessorized with sunglasses and a New York Yankees shot cap.

Jared Kushner and woman Ivanka Trump participate a h2o taxi aft arriving astatine Marco Polo airdrome up of the wedding of Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez connected June 24, 2025, successful Venice, Italy. (Luigi Iorio/GC Images)

Ivanka Trump and her hubby Jared Kushner (L) committee a taxi vessel aft their accomplishment astatine Venice Marco Polo airdrome connected June 24, 2025. (ANDREA PATTARO/AFP via Getty Images)

Philanthropist and manner decorator Diane von Fürstenberg besides arrived successful Italy connected Tuesday.

The Belgian manner decorator wore a colorful striped suit with a achromatic apical underneath arsenic she arrived astatine Venice's Marco Polo Airport.

Fashion decorator Diane Von Fürstenberg arrives astatine Venice Marco Polo airdrome connected June 24, 2026. (ANDREA PATTARO/AFP via Getty Images)

Bezos and Sánchez debuted their narration successful 2019 aft Sánchez separated from Hollywood cause Patrick Whitesell and Bezos divorced his ex-wife Mackenzie Scott.

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Main entranceway to the Arsenale successful Venice.  (Paolo Reda/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

The couple's engagement was announced successful May 2023. Bezos projected utilizing a 30-carat pinkish diamond ringing estimated to beryllium worthy betwixt $3 cardinal and $5 million.

Between 200 and 250 guests, including galore rumored celebrities similar Kim Kardashian, Katy Perry and Leonardo DiCaprio, are expected to attend.

The couple's engagement was announced successful May 2023. (Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)

"No Space for Bezos," the radical starring the protests, has much demonstrations planned for Saturday successful the city. 

The radical besides took recognition for forcing the wedding venue to move. 

"The quality that Bezos has tally distant from the Misericordia is simply a large triumph for us," Tommaso Cacciari, a person of the "No Space for Bezos" campaign, told Reuters.

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Activists of planetary biology radical Greenpeace deploy a elephantine banner displaying a representation of Jeff Bezos and speechmaking "If you tin rent Venice for your wedding you tin wage much tax" astatine St Mark Square successful Venice connected June 23, 2025.  (Stefano Rellandini / AFP via Getty Images)

The protests were criticized by the president of the Veneto region, which includes Venice, Luca Zaia, who said the wedding festivities could bring tens of millions of dollars successful much-needed gross to the city. 

The couple, connected their wedding invitation, asked guests to marque donations to 3 Venetian charities successful lieu of gifts, according to Good Morning America. The charities see the UNESCO Venice office, to "safeguard this city's irreplaceable taste heritage," CORILA "to reconstruct the captious lagoon habitats that support Venice's future" and Venice International University "to enactment probe and acquisition for sustainable solutions."  

The mates person besides pushed backmost connected the thought that their nuptials volition overrun the city, which is already crowded with tourism. 

A wide presumption of the Scuola Grande della Misericordia connected June 04, 2025, successful Venice, Italy. (Stefano Mazzola/Getty Images)

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The couple's wedding planners told Fox News Digital that Bezos and Sánchez 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.

"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.

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"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.