Lauren Sánchez leaves the Aman Hotel on Friday.Photo: Stefano Rellandini/AFP/Getty Images
The black death. Byron on the track. Increasing water level. Cruise ships the size of city blocks. Venice may have endured many turbulent events and dark challenges over the centuries, but in its long history it rarely had to deal with such a strange and split problem as the type of wedding of the fourth person in the world.
On Friday morning, the Lagoon City found what it could do best: looked beautiful and slightly unreal when they posed thousands of tourists who posed in silver gondolas, posed for priority, spray or simply in the float heat in the fluff.
But Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez ‘big day started over the water from St. Mark’s Square. The exact choreography of events may not have been clear, but an elaborately planned and secretly executed operation developed on the tiny island of San Giorgio Maggiore, where the couple later promised eternal love and loyalty to a lot of 200 mainly famous guests.
A handful of camera teams that were around the entrance to the Giorgio Cini Foundation, where a few were tight, but polite persons in front of monitors under a pavilion and were politely warded off for information requests.
And no, they really didn’t know when the ceremony would start. According to reports, the couple had already bound the knot in the United States and the event on Friday was as symbolic as it was expensive.
The long Venetian afternoon moved from his Torpor at 5 p.m. when Sánchez appeared from the Aman Hotel and wore a cream suit, sunglasses and a headscarf. The bride then climbed into a water taxi that passed her legions of photographers and over the island. The groom, dressed in black tie, followed an hour later.
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Despite the strong media presence and the epic selection of the celebrations, not everyone in San Giorgio Maggiore was excited.
The deck of his boat in the port of the island, 100 meters from the event location, had offered a local man a laconic and not atypical view of what has become known, a little boring as a “wedding of the century”.
What did he do out of all the excitement? “I don’t think about it at all,” he said. “I don’t care.”
The wedding celebrations that started seriously on Thursday evening and culminated on Saturday in Arsenale Historic Shipyard Complex in a reception in the Arsenale Historic Shipyard Complex, divided the city into three groups. There are those like the Yachtsman who just doesn’t care. There are those who are in front of a man with an estimated net assets of $ 212 billion (£ 154 billion), and those who, like the mayor of the city, see the 40-million extravagance as a welcome money spinner and a wonderful shop window for the attractions of the region.
The famous friends of Bezos and Sánchez did not seem to have been deterred by the controversy, and in the past few days there have been imaginative protests-an impact on a reserve armada of canal blocking inflatable crocodiles.
The welcome ceremony on Thursday evening in the crusaders of the Madonna Dell’orto, a 14th century church in the Cannaregio region, was visited by celebrities, including Leonardo DiCaprio, Oprah Winfrey, Kim Kardashian, Ivanka Trump, Tom Brady and Orlando Bloom.
However, another imaginative disapproval followed. A green laser was used shortly before 11 p.m. to spell the slogan “No Kings, No Bezos” on the Belltower on the Square of St. Mark. Similar guerrilla campaigns in the past few days have included the discharge of a reading from Banner: “If you can rent Venice for your wedding, you can pay more taxes.”
Those who annoy the protests behind the protest-one coalition of groups that upset the city’s sale, the housing activists and the anti-cruise activists say that their puncture “No Space for Bezos” alliance has already paid off. They claim that their persistent pressure, not least the threat to the introduction of the Bloc-Up crocodile fleet, caused the couple to switch to the location of the SCUOLA Grande Della Misericordia, a majestic building from the 16th century in the city center, to private arsenale.
Others have a different attitude to the superyachts and the 90 private jets fired in Venice this week. The mayor of the city, Luigi Brugnaro, released the demonstrators as “shameful” and said that the Bezos-Sánchez union would fill Venetian health insurers.
This view is shared by the Italian tourism minister Daniela Santanzè. “There will be photos everywhere, social media will be wild about the bride’s dress about the ceremony,” she told Associated Press.
“All of this leads to a massive campaign for free advertising. In fact, they will enrich Venice – our shopkeepers, craftsmen, restaurateurs, hotels. So it is a great opportunity to promote both spending and promoting Italy in the world.”
However, a man had his own reasons why he wished the Amazon founder all the best.
Cagda’s Halicilar, a 47-year-old German who heads a van company, has a supporting rank as a fairly convincing Bezos-lookalike.
He had traveled to Venice to greet and confuse the crowd, and also hoped for a short encounter with Bezos so that he could give him the bottle of whiskey, which he bought him as a wedding gift, the bottle of whiskey of € 3,000.
“I recognized the similarity three years ago,” he said. “My life has changed a lot since then. Wherever I go, people like ‘Jeff! Jeff!'”
He had come close to his doppelganger on Thursday evening when a beautiful Burgundy -colored boat drove past him. “He saw me and I waved and he gave me a thumbs up,” said Halicilar. “I was so happy. I cried.”
When the German delivery boss finally gets to know Bezos, it has simple news. “I will only tell him that I am proud of how he to look. This is all. He is not arrogant and he has a big heart. He makes people smile and I’m a big fan.”
(He also hopes that when Bezos reads this piece, he can arrange a meeting to hand over the whiskey.)
During the day, the secret preparations continued and the malignant June slapped tourists, guests and journalists, a visitor shook his way through San Giorgio Maggiore shook her head. This was all if further evidence was needed, the great power of the super -rich of the 21st century of the 21st century.
“It’s grotesque,” said the woman who came from northern Spain. “Two hundred and fifty guests and an invoice of € 50 million? That’s why I don’t buy anything from Amazon.”
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