Venice: Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez have given themselves the sure | EUROtoday

Now it is official: Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, one of many richest males on the earth, and the previous TV presenter Lauren Sánchez have married. The 55-year-old posted a photograph of the marriage occasion on the island of San Giorgio in Venice on her Instagram account. To do that, she wrote the date June 27, 2025 within the American variant 06/27/2025, supplied with a crimson coronary heart. She modified her identify in Lauren Sánchez Bezos.

In the photograph you possibly can see the radiant couple in a backyard in the midst of his roughly 200 friends, together with loads of prominence. The US billionaire wears a black tuxedo with a fly, the ex-journalist is a decent white marriage ceremony gown with veil.

The ceremony with distinguished friends occurred on Friday afternoon – shielded from the eyes of the general public – on the island of San Giorgio Maggiore within the Venice lagoon, as Italian media reported.

Celebrities from the style world, the present enterprise and the tech trade had come to the celebrations, together with actuality star Kim Kardashian, US president Ivanka Trump, star moderator Oprah Winfrey, US singer, actor like Orlando Bloom and Leonardo DiCaprio and members of the Jordan Royal House.

The marriage ceremony is claimed to have taken place in an open amphitheater on the island of San Giorgio Maggiore. Matteo BoCelli, the son of the well-known opera singer Andrea Bocelli, was presupposed to sing. Star chef Fabrizio Mellino ought to be liable for the marriage menu. Sánchez, who had already married Bezos within the United States, is claimed to have ready 27 outfits for the mega celebration in Venice.

The 61-year-old Bezos, one of many richest males on the earth, had been enthusiastic concerning the scene for his dream marriage ceremony with the 55-year-old Sánchez on Thursday: “Look around! This city seems impossible, it cannot actually exist, but it is still there,” the multi -illiarch reporter from deck of a ship, in accordance with a video that launched the newspaper “La Repubblica”.

The finish of the three -day celebration is an enormous occasion on Saturday the place Lady Gaga is meant to look. However, the bride and groom and their friends are prone to sweat rather a lot whereas dancing: Up to 32 levels Celsius are anticipated in Venice, as a result of excessive humidity within the lagoon, felt about 36 levels Celsius.

The Italian Ministry of Health additionally warned of maximum warmth on the weekend for 20 different Italian cities from Milan to Florence and Rome to Naples. Among the residents of Venice, the movie star marriage ceremony is controversial within the notoriously understood metropolis. Environmentalists have additionally criticized the mega occasion, to which many celebrities had been flying in with non-public jets.

Regional President Luca Zaia, however, emphasised the financial benefits: 80 % of the expenditure for the estimated at the least 40 million euros in celebrations would profit corporations and the town’s inhabitants, he emphasised. In addition, in accordance with Zaia, Bezos has promised a donation of three million euros for a affiliation for the safety of the lagoon, for the University of Venice and for the UN Culture Organization UNESCO.

The Italian Ministry of Tourism even calculated that the three -day marriage ceremony may convey Italy to virtually one billion euros. In addition to direct and oblique revenue, 895 million euros in future tourism revenue may be anticipated, which might come about by way of the huge reporting on the marriage – and thus by way of Venice and Italy. However, the Ministry restricted that the calculations are “complex” and wish “an empirical review”.

According to media studies, Bezos and Sánchez requested their marriage ceremony friends to not give them any items. Instead, it is best to donate the UNESCO “to preserve the irreplaceable cultural heritage” of Venice, cited media from a message from the marriage couple.