As former journalist Lauren Sanchez prepares to celebrate her marriage to billionaire Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, details around the multiday event — unfolding June 26-28 — have remained top secret, largely in an effort to dodge disruptive protests.
While the wedding’s party planners insist that they are being respectful of Venice and its locals, protesters are adamant that the couple and their 200 guests are not welcome in a city that sees some 30 million tourists pour in each year. However, with the blessing of Venice’s mayor, the multimillion-dollar affair is going ahead and invited VIPs have already begun to arrive in style.
Ivanka Trump wore a sequined cherry blossom cocktail dress by Oscar de la Renta as she and husband, Jared Kushner, ferried to the week's first events on Thursday.
Leonardo DiCaprio leaves the Gritti Palace hotel in Venice on Thursday.
Usher rides on a boat taxi on Thursday.
Kendall and Kylie Jenner depart the Gritti Palace hotel on Thursday.
Model Vittoria Ceretti leaves the Gritti Palace hotel on Thursday.
Kim Kardashian departs the Gritti Palace hotel on Thursday.
Corey Gamble and Kris Jenner ride a taxi boat as they leave the Gritti Palace hotel on Thursday.
Khloe Kardashian boards a taxi boat on Thursday.
Sanchez waves to photographers wearing a shimmering brocade corset dress from Schiaparelli’s spring/summer 2025 couture collection.
Tom Brady leaves the Gritti Palace hotel on Thursday.
Oprah Winfrey waves before departing the Gritti Palace hotel on Thursday.
Fashion designer Sarah Staudinger boards a taxi boat after landing in Venice on Thursday.
Members of the climate activist group Extinction Rebellion protest in Venice's Piazza San Marco on Thursday.
From left, Kim Kardashian, Khloe Kardashian and Orlando Bloom are seen in Venice on Thursday. Khloe was dressed in a Skims x Dolce & Gabbana catsuit.
Winfrey takes a taxi boat in Venice on Thursday.
Kim Kardashian boards a taxi boat wearing Balenciaga at the Venice Marco Polo Airport on Thursday.
People walk past the Madonna dell’Orto church in Venice ahead of the wedding festivities on Thursday.
Brady arrives in Venice on Thursday.
Sanchez and Bezos arrive by boat at a hotel in Venice on Wednesday, June 25.
A general view of the Aman hotel in Venice on Wednesday.
Sanchez and Bezos depart the Aman hotel on Wednesday. Bezos' bride-to-be was photographed in a vintage Spring-Summer 2003 off-the-shoulder McQueen dress.
The domes of Venice's St. Mark's Basilica are silhouetted in the early morning on Wednesday.
People look at a super yacht in Venice on Tuesday, June 24. Multimillion-dollar super yachts have been arriving in the city.
Ivanka Trump and her husband, Jared Kushner, exit the airport before getting into a water taxi in Venice on Tuesday.
Activists of the international environmental group Greenpeace deploy a giant banner at St. Mark Square in Venice on Monday, June 23. It reads, "If you can rent Venice for your wedding you can pay more tax."
Much of the wedding plans are shrouded in secrecy, but one of the most talked-about possible venues is the Cini Foundation on the island of San Giorgio Maggiore.
Sanchez's bachelorette party included a cruise on the Seine in Paris, with Kim Kardashian, Katy Perry and Eva Longoria joining the festivities on May 16.
