Lauren Sanchez posts first pic from wedding to Jeff Bezos
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and journalist Lauren Sánchez tied the knot on Friday in a lavish ceremony on San Giorgio Maggiore island in Venice, Italy.
The star-studded event was attended by celebrities including Leonardo DiCaprio, Oprah Winfrey, Kim Kardashian, and Tom Brady. Sánchez wore a custom Dolce & Gabbana gown, while Bezos sported a classic tuxedo.
The couple reportedly spent over $50 million on the multi-day celebration, which featured live music, extravagant decor, and charity donations to local Venetian causes.
Sánchez confirmed the wedding on Instagram under her new handle, @laurensanchezbezos, posting a photo of the newlyweds.
Sanchez, 55, waved and blew kisses to onlookers as she boarded a sleek motor boat outside the Aman hotel wearing short-sleeved, cream, fitted skirt suit, with shades and a head scarf to protect her from the blistering summer sun.
Around two hours later Bezos, 61, wearing a black tuxedo and bow tie over a white shirt, made the same short trip across the lagoon to the small island of San Giorgio where the couple will exchange rings, accompanied by singing from Matteo Bocelli, son of Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli.
The evening ceremony will have no legal status under Italian law, a senior city hall official told Reuters, suggesting the couple may have already legally wed in the United States, avoiding the bureaucracy associated with an Italian marriage.
Bill Gates, Leonardo DiCaprio, Orlando Bloom, Tom Brady, the queen of Jordan, Oprah Winfrey, Kris Jenner and Kim and Khloe Kardashian as well as Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner and Domenico Dolce from Dolce & Gabbana are among the 200-250 guests.
Amid tight security, there have been glimpses of the celebrities moving around town, the women in summer dresses and high heels stepping somewhat gingerly off boats ferrying them around the city’s canals.
Celebrations began on Thursday evening in the cloisters of Madonna dell’Orto, a medieval church in the central district of Cannaregio that hosts masterpieces by 16th-century painter Tintoretto.
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