La Dolce Vita!

Forget quiet luxury: Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez took Venice by storm with their star-studded, multi-day, multimillion-dollar nuptials

- BY JAIME HARKIN

It was a wedding weekend to remember. On June 27, a who's who of Hollywood A-listers, including Leonardo DiCaprio, Orlando Bloom, Oprah Winfrey and Kim Kardashian, royalty and billionaires descended on Venice, Italy, to celebrate the marriage of Amazon mogul Jeff Bezos and Emmy-winning journalist Lauren Sánchez. No expense was spared for the over-the-top, three-day affair (journalist Paula Froelich estimates it cost around $9.5 to 11 million), which kicked off with a welcome dinner party near the Madonna Dell’Orto church, followed by a reception on the island of San Giorgio Maggiore the next day.

Sánchez, 55, spent the last two years envisioning her dream “I do’s” — in 2024, she revealed on Today that she's “just like every other bride, so I do have a Pinterest board.” She and Bezos, 61, went public in early 2019 and got engaged in May 2023 aboard their 417-foot sailing yacht Koru (he popped the question with a 30-carat ring). “I'm gonna be a mess on the day, but the best kind of mess,” she told Vogue a few weeks before walking down the aisle in custom Dolce & Gabbana, noting that Bezos was “more involved than people think” in the planning process. Among the 200 guests, 70 were family members, including Sánchez’s sons Nikko, 24, and Evan, 19, who walked her down the aisle, and her daughter, Ella, 17, her maid of honor. Bezos’ four kids with ex-wife MacKenzie Scott have remained out of the spotlight.

"Venice nights," Kris Jenner (in vintage Chanel alongside Corey Gamble) wrote in an Instagram post.