Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez’s wedding ceremony gained’t trigger any issues for the residents of Venice, town’s mayor, Luigi Brugnaro, says.
Final week, Web page Six reported that the couple’s wedding ceremony might be held this summer season in Venice, Italy. Whereas no particulars concerning the visitor listing or the marriage date have been revealed, the couple have reportedly already despatched their invitations out.
Now, Brugnaro has spoken out concerning the Amazon founder’s reported wedding ceremony plans, denying claims that he booked numerous lodge rooms, gondolas, and water taxis in Venice for the occasion.
“We’re mutually working and supporting the organizers, to make sure that the occasion might be completely respectful of the fragility and uniqueness of town,” he mentioned in a press release to Folks on Saturday.
“The numerous speculations and faux information circulating about Jeff Bezos’ wedding ceremony are fully unfounded,” town mentioned in a press release, noting its “utmost precedence to verify town capabilities as regular, for all, with no irregular disruption to anybody.”
The town – which has warned concerning the risks posed by extreme tourism – additionally mentioned that whereas it’s anticipating 200 friends for the marriage, many venues in Venice can accommodate that quantity, because it has beforehand for G20 and G7 summits.
Mayor of Venice says Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez’s wedding ceremony will ‘be completely respectful’ of town (AFP by way of Getty Photographs)
“Venice is used to being the stage for occasions and reveals each week, with out important impacts,” town additionally instructed the publication.
Bezo, 61, proposed to helicopter pilot and former TV journalist Sánchez, 55, in Might 2023, with a 20-carat, $2.5 million pink diamond ring.
In an interview with Vogue following their engagement, Sánchez mentioned she discovered the ring beneath her pillow after a starlit dinner for 2 on Koru, the three-master megayacht. The vessel is the tallest crusing yacht on the earth.
“When he opened the field, I believe I blacked out a bit,” she instructed the publication, including that the proposal was so surprising that she had already eliminated her make-up and was able to go to mattress.
“We’re nonetheless desirous about the marriage,” she added. “What it’s going to be. Is it going to be large? Is it going to be abroad? We don’t know but. We’ve solely been engaged 5 months!”
Sánchez was requested whether or not sure tasks include marrying Bezos, who’s at present listed because the second richest man on the earth. In keeping with Forbes’ real-time billionaires listing, he has an estimated web price of $209.2 billion on the time of writing.
“I believe there are a variety of alternatives that include that, and I take these alternatives very critically,” she mentioned. “We all the time take a look at one another and go, ‘We’re the crew.’ So every little thing’s shared.”
Elsewhere within the interview, Sánchez mentioned that she was sure she could be taking her associate’s final identify after they get married.
“Uh, sure, one hundred pc,” she instructed the publication. “I’m wanting ahead to being Mrs Bezos.”
In August 2023, they first hosted an engagement get together on a ship alongside Koru with some well-known friends, together with Invoice Gates and his girlfriend, Paula Hurd. Vogue additionally reported that Oprah Winfrey, Kris Jenner, Salma Hayek Pinault, Barbra Streisand, Miranda Kerr, Suki Waterhouse, and Robert Pattison have been in attendance.
