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It whitethorn beryllium the astir extravagant wedding of the year, but not everyone is looking guardant to Lauren Sánchez and Jeff Bezos' upcoming nuptials successful Venice, Italy.
Last week, Venetians gathered unneurotic to protestation the couple's upcoming wedding festivities implicit fears of disruptions successful a metropolis that is already impacted by wide tourism.
"No abstraction for Bezos," 1 motion read.
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Lauren Sánchez and Jeff Bezos' upcoming wedding successful Venice, Italy is being met with absorption from locals. (Getty Images)
Though astir of the details surrounding the wedding are unknown, 1 Venice national said, "we person our moles," per The New York Times.
Federica Toninello, a protestation organizer, said that 1 of the 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.
People gathered to protestation against the wedding connected June 13. (ANDREA PATTARO/AFP via Getty Images)
Despite the backlash, 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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According to NBC, Venice - location to astir 50,000 radical - receives astir 20 cardinal visitors yearly, mostly day-trippers from cruise ships oregon different cities.
Officials told NBC 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.
The couple, who began publically dating successful 2019, volition reportedly beryllium joined aboriginal this month. (Craig T Fruchtman/Getty Images)
"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," metropolis hallway officials said successful a connection to NBC.
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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," the connection added.
According to the AP, the mates are sourcing 80% of their wedding vendors successful Venice. (Getty Images)
According to the AP, Bezos and Sánchez are sourcing 80% of their wedding vendors locally.
In March, the metropolis reassured locals that the wedding would not disturb the day-to-day of its citizens.
"We are mutually moving and supporting the organizers, to guarantee that the lawsuit volition beryllium perfectly respectful of the fragility and uniqueness of the city," Mayor Brugnaro said successful a connection to People at the time.
"The galore speculations and fake quality circulating astir Jeff Bezos’ wedding are wholly unfounded," the metropolis added successful a statement, noting that it "is their utmost precedence to marque definite the metropolis functions arsenic normal, for all, with nary abnormal disruption to anyone."
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"No Space For Bezos" activists gathered successful Campo San Giacomo di Rialto to signifier protests against the wedding. (Stefano Mazzola/Getty Images)
The Bezos-Sánchez wedding is reportedly being held aboriginal this month. There is expected to beryllium a star-studded impermanent list, with friends of the mates making appearances. Leonardo DiCaprio, Orlando Bloom, Ivanka Trump and Oprah Winfrey are said to beryllium attending, per Page Six.
Bezos and Sánchez reportedly met successful the mid-2010s but didn't spell nationalist with their narration until 2019 – erstwhile Sanchez separated from her then-husband, Hollywood cause Patrick Whitesell, and Bezos divorced Mackenzie Scott.
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Bezos projected to Sánchez portion aboard his $500 cardinal yacht, Koru, successful May 2023, she told Vogue successful November of that year.
W Magazine reported that Sanchez's 30-carat engagement ringing is estimated to beryllium worthy betwixt $3 cardinal and $5 million. The outlet reported that Sanchez had 2 engagement parties, 1 successful Beverly Hills and different successful Positano, Italy.
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