Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez arrived in Venice on Wednesday and marked the beginning of their highly anticipated three -day wedding celebrations. The couple touched the helicopter before transfer to a water taxi and waved to the audience as they approached the exclusive Aman Venice hotel at the Grand Canal. Sánchez, a bright in black dress and sleeveless needle dress, shone a smile on the cameras, while Bezos decided for the occasional black polo and white pants.
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The festivities, estimated at 40-48 million euros ($ 46-56 million), will include Thursday’s welcome party at Madonna Dell’orto monasteries, Friday’s black ceremony on the island of San Giorgio Maggiore, which presents Matteo Bocelli and Saturday reception at Arsenale. More than 200 A-lists, including Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner, Oprah Winfrey and Leonardo DiCaprio, descend through 90+ private jets, increasing security concerns and logistics tension in the historic city.
The order of the wedding set fire to steep protests through Venice, and activists condemned this event as a symbol of inequalities of wealth and overall. Under the banner “no space for Bezos”, coalition of housing advocates, environmentalists and anti -rip groups of ships represented dramatic demonstrations: developed a giant banner on St. Mark, who laughed next to the text, laughed that he laughed to laugh at the big songs that laughed to run to run to run about the size he laughed.
The threats to block channels with inflatable crocodiles forced a couple to move Saturday’s reception from the Sculala Grande della Misericordia, the 16th century monuments in the crowded Cannaregio district, Arsenale, a fortified island accessible only by boat. Activists welcomed the change of action as a victory, although on Saturday they are planning a march “Noos, No War”. Mayor Luigi Brugnaro rejected the protesters as “several dozen seeking attention”, while Governor Luca Zaia revealed that Bezos donated € 1 million for the Venetian Lagoon research as an offer of peace.
Local tension emphasizes a deeper clash between the identity of Venice as a living city and its relying on tourism incomes. Long -term residents such as Nadia Rigo have lamented: “We who were born here have to ask (rich) to permission to board the ferry,” the lack of housing and overcrowding quoted with events that take care of the elites.
Yet businesses defend the wedding: Antonio Rosa Salva, whose bakery prepared 200 gift boxes for guests, noted that weddings make up 30% of its annual sales, while the hotel associations emphasized the recent abyss of tourism. Lanza & Baucina’s wedding planners emphasized the efforts to minimize disruption, hiring local workers and booking only 30 out of 250 water taxis in Venice.
Despite these measures, the Aman Hotel faced criticism for the “introduction” of long books to suit the Bezos -Establishment, even though it covered the cost of relocation. As a temperature of almost 90 ° F, urban braces for the weekend, when glittering celebrations and disagreement from local conditions test the future of Venice as a “global scene”.
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