The lavish wedding of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and ebook creator and helicopter pilot, Lauren Sánchez, is predicted to happen subsequent week in Venice. Most reports say the occasion will host 200 visitors and final three days, from June 24 to June 26, although the couple has not confirmed.
However Venice residents have been protesting towards overcrowding and mass tourism, one thing that they are saying is negatively affecting the small (the principle island is about 2 sq. miles) metropolis that receives about 20 million visitors yearly. The overcrowding has change into so dangerous that the town prices a 5 Euro daily entrance fee on some high-season dates. (It is also not simply Venice — in Spain, vacationers are being shot with water guns on crowded streets.)
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And now the Bezos-Sánchez marriage ceremony is within the crosshairs.
Folks collect to protest towards the marriage of Amazon Founder Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez in Venice on June 13, 2025. ANDREA PATTARO/AFP | Getty Pictures
For the previous few days main as much as the marriage, protesters have been making signs and chanting, “No area for Bezos,” in an apparent play on phrases concerning the area firm Bezos based, Blue Origin.
Nevertheless, the AP reports that, regardless of the protests, the betrothed have used native distributors for about 80% of the provisions, and the companies they spoke to have been completely happy in regards to the additional orders.
The Sixth-generation proprietor of Rosa Salva, a bakery that has been making pastries since 1876, advised the AP that his enterprise made a number of objects for the goody baggage for the marriage and was completely happy to see the town within the nationwide highlight.
“Occasions like this carry high quality tourism to Venice,” he mentioned. “I do not see how an occasion with 200 individuals can create disruptions. It is accountable tourism. It is prestigious {that a} couple like this, who can go anyplace on the planet, are getting married within the metropolis.”
The mayor of Venice, Luigi Brugnaro, can also be excited for the occasion.
Brugnaro advised the AP this week that it was “an honor” that Bezos and Sánchez selected Venice.
“Venice as soon as once more reveals itself to be a worldwide stage,” he mentioned.
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