Jeff Bezos, Lauren Sanchez to wed during three-day Venice extravaganza that's sparking local fury

Jeff Bezos and fiancée Lauren Sanchez's highly anticipated nuptials are conscionable astir the corner.

The 61-year-old billionaire and the 55-year-old erstwhile TV writer volition reportedly necktie the knot during a three-day wedding extravaganza successful Venice, Italy, adjacent week with galore high-profile guests, including celebrities, politicians and concern leaders. 

Bezos and Sanchez reportedly met successful the mid-2010s and went nationalist with their narration successful 2019 aft Sanchez separated from Hollywood cause Patrick Whitesell and Bezos divorced his Mackenzie Scott.

The brace announced their engagement successful May 2023 aft Bezos projected to Sanchez with a 30-carat pinkish diamond ringing estimated to beryllium worthy betwixt $3 cardinal and $5 million.

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Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez's highly anticipated wedding is accelerated approaching.  (Axelle/Bauer/Griffin/FilmMagic)

Though the preparations person mostly been kept nether wraps, Sanchez shared a glimpse of her wedding plans during a November quality connected "Today."

"I'm precise excited astir it, thinking astir the dress. I person to say, I bash person a Pinterest. I'm conscionable similar each different bride," Sanchez told hosts Savannah Guthrie and Hoda Kotb. 

"I ne'er thought astatine 54 — I'm going to beryllium 55 — that I'd beryllium an author, that I'd beryllium getting married. I mean, beingness is conscionable beginning," she added.

Bezos has denied immoderate engagement successful the wedding planning.

"Oh, God, no. Do I look that dumb?" helium told Vogue successful 2023.

The mates volition necktie the knot successful Venice adjacent week.  (Bruce Glikas/WireImage)

In March, Sanchez's older member Paul Sanchez shared his excitement implicit the upcoming nuptials with TMZ, which helium compared to the royal wedding of the precocious Princess Diana and past Prince Charles.  

"I deliberation it's gonna beryllium similar a Princess Di thing," Paul said. "Just immense and amusive and conscionable a blast.

"I'm thrilled beyond belief," helium added. "It's gonna beryllium an astonishing event. It's gonna beryllium star-studded and fun."

However, the upcoming festivities person immoderate Venice locals up successful arms implicit fears of disruptions successful a metropolis already affected by wide tourism. Early protests person already been held, and immoderate Venetians person posted banners decrying the lawsuit and Bezos connected historical landmarks astir the city. More demonstrations are expected during the celebrations. 

Here's everything to cognize astir what has been called the "wedding of the year."

Where are Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez getting married?

The 2 announced their engagement successful 2023.  (Craig T Fruchtman/Getty Images)

In March, the city of Venice confirmed it would big the lavish affair.

At the time, Mayor Luigi Brugnaro said Venice is "mutually moving and supporting the organizers to guarantee that the lawsuit volition beryllium perfectly respectful of the fragility and uniqueness of the city."

City officials said it volition beryllium "easy" for Venice to "accommodate" the couple’s nuptials "without immoderate disruption whatsoever to the city, its residents and visitors," noting lone astir 200 guests "will person been invited" to the Amazon laminitis and his fiancée’s nuptials. 

Venice, location to sites similar the Rialto Bridge, Doge’s Palace and Saint Mark’s Basilica, is location to astir 50,000 radical and gets astir 20 cardinal visitors yearly, mostly day-trippers from cruise ships oregon different cities.  

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Wedding organizers person reportedly rented San Giorgio Maggiore land for the celebrations.  (Getty Images)

Officials told NBC earlier this week that astir 30 of the 280 h2o taxis person been reserved for the wedding festivities, and lone 3 oregon 4 hotels volition beryllium utilized for the event.

According to the BBC, wedding organizers person booked the full land of San Giorgio Maggiore, which is located crossed from Venice's famed St. Mark’s Square.

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People mag reported that the authoritative ceremonial volition instrumentality spot connected Bezos' $500 cardinal yacht, Koru, which volition beryllium anchored successful the Venetian lagoon. 

According to Architectural Digest, Bezos archetypal commissioned Koru successful 2018, and it was delivered to the Blue Origin laminitis successful 2023. At 417 feet long, Koru is the largest sailing yacht successful the world, according to the outlet. 

Sources reported the ceremonial volition instrumentality spot connected Bezos' yacht, Koru.  (Robino Salvatore/GC Images)

Koru is accompanied by a $75 cardinal enactment vas named Abeona, which features a helipad and a hangar. 

Bezos projected to Sanchez portion aboard Koru successful May 2023, she told Vogue successful November of that year. 

In August 2023, Bezos and Sanchez hosted a star-studded engagement enactment connected Koru erstwhile it was anchored disconnected the seashore of Positano, Italy. Guests who attended the lawsuit included Bill Gates, Leonardo DiCaprio, Queen Rania of Jordan, Ari Emanuel, Kris Jenner and Tobey Maguire. 

When are Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez getting married?

The wedding solemnisation volition reportedly instrumentality spot from June 24-26.  (Arnold Jerocki/FilmMagic)

The nonstop dates for the wedding person not been revealed, though Luca Zuin, spokesperson for themayor of Venice, told CNN this week it volition beryllium held from June 24-26. 

In a study published Friday, a root told the Daily Mail the land of San Giorgio Maggiore volition beryllium "'off-limits to visitors" from June 24-29.

Who is connected the impermanent list? 

Kim Kardashian and Eva Longoria, who attended Sanchez's bachelorette festivities, are said to beryllium connected the star-studded impermanent list.  (Michael Buckner/WWD via Getty Images; Arnold Jerocki/GC Images)

In March, Puck News reported Bezos and Sanchez had mailed wedding invitations. 

There is expected to beryllium a star-studded impermanent list, with friends of the mates making appearances. Leonardo DiCaprio, Orlando Bloom, Mick Jagger, Jay-Z and Beyoncé, Kim Kardashian, Kris Jenner, Eva Longoria, Gayle King and Jewel are among the stars expected to attend, according to aggregate reports. 

In addition, Ivanka Trump and hubby Jared Kushner are said to person been invited on with Joshua Kushner and woman Karlie Kloss and Fox Sports writer Charissa Thompson. 

In summation to Sanchez's member Paul, members of the couple's household are besides expected to beryllium successful attendance, including their children. Bezos shares 3 sons and 1 girl with Scott, portion Sanchez and ex-husband Whitesell are parents to lad Evan, 18, and girl Ella, 17. Sanchez besides shares lad Nikko Gonzalez with erstwhile nonrecreational shot subordinate Tony Gonzalez. 

What tin guests expect from the celebrations?

The brace are sourcing 80% of their wedding vendors locally.  (Daniele Venturelli/Getty Images)

According to The Associated Press, Bezos and Sanchez are sourcing 80% of their wedding vendors locally. 

Two historical Venetian companies volition adhd artisanal touches to the celebration, including Rosa Salva, the city’s oldest pastry shaper that has been successful concern since 1876, and Laguna B, a plan workplace known for its distinctive handblown Murano solid prized by manner and plan clients.

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Antonio Rosa Salva, the sixth procreation successful his household to tally the business, said the wedding bid of a enactment of surprises for goody bags was an important designation of his family’s agelong contented of baking Venetian specialties dating backmost astir 150 years.

The pastries see the bussola buttery biscuit that was agelong a fisherman’s staple and tiny zaletti cookies, made from the Veneto region’s cornmeal, flavored with raisins and citrus zest.

However, the Daily Mail reported Rosa Salva would not beryllium creating the couple's wedding cake.

According to the AP, Laguna B would not disclose what its maestro glassblowers connected Murano person created for the wedding, but the institution is known for distinctive glassware that astatine times features an undulating articulator – nary 2 alike.

Will determination beryllium protests?

"No Space For Bezos" activists person declared they volition protestation during the wedding celebrations.  (Stefano Mazzola/Getty Images)

Venetians person already staged protests in beforehand of the event with much expected during the proceedings. 

Some locals person agreed nether the protestation radical named "No Space for Bezos," according to the BBC.

The outlet reported Wednesday that protesters person posted anti-Bezos banners from the doorbell operation of the San Giorgio Maggiore basilica and the Rialto Bridge.

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"Venice is being treated similar a showcase, a stage," Federica Toninelli, a No Space for Bezos activist, told the BBC. 

"And this wedding is the awesome of the exploitation of the metropolis by outsiders," she added. "Venice is present conscionable an asset."

Though astir of the details surrounding the wedding person been kept secret, 1 Venice national said, "We person our moles," according to The New York Times. 

Protests began successful the weeks starring up to the event.  (Andrea Pattaro/AFP via Getty Images)

According to the NYT, Toninelli said 1 of the wedding venues could beryllium The Misericordia, a famed lawsuit hall. 

"Bezos volition ne'er get to the Misericordia," she said during a protest. "We volition enactment the streets with our bodies, artifact the canals with lifesavers, dinghies and our boats."

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"We person to artifact Bezos. We person to artifact this thought of this metropolis arsenic a tourist haven that has driven up lodging costs truthful that astir mean Venetians tin nary longer spend to unrecorded here," she said, according to the NYT.

Despite the backlash, Mayor Luigi Brugnaro told The Associated Press Venice is taking pridefulness successful playing big to the celebrations. 

"We are precise proud,’’ Brugnaro said. "I don’t cognize if I volition person clip [to conscionable Bezos and Sanchez], 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.’’

The politician of Venice said astir of the citizens are arrogant to big the event.  (Pascal Le Segretain/amfAR/Getty Images for amfAR)

In a connection to NBC Wednesday, metropolis hallway officials said Venice is prepared for the festivities. 

"The metropolis is afloat accustomed to hosting high-profile events of this quality and scale, including different personage weddings, planetary summits specified arsenic the G7 and G20, arsenic good arsenic accepted events similar the Festa del Redentore and the Venice Biennale," the connection said.

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"The celebrations, attended by 250 guests, volition blend into the regular bushed of a metropolis that, with dignity and respect, welcomes thousands of visitors from astir the satellite portion safeguarding the prime of beingness for its residents, workers, and students.

"Protest initiatives are successful nary mode typical of the bulk of citizens, who are arrogant that Venice has been chosen arsenic the wedding location".

Fox News Digital's Christina Dugan Ramirez and the Associated Press contributed to this report.