by If only the wedding were on a superyacht, it would be so much easier.
One thing I learned to carry out the waterways Venice is that you can certainly hide a wedding location, but you cannot hide superyacht. They multiply faster than mosquitoes in the Lagoon City, while hordes of regular tourists exert the temperatures of 90f (32 ° C) and suffocate the humidity to boss the streets, water taxis and gondola.
These slim and glossy multi-storey goods, which the astonishingly wealthy guests of Jeff Bezos and his future bride, Lauren Sánchez, were wasted from one end of the Giudecca channel to the other, when the count begins at least three days of celebrations.
Ironically, the lucky couple had to throw their plans, the Giudekka on board their own 500 million US dollars (£ 366 million) Superyacht, Korufor their so -called “wedding of the century”. The ship was discussed as one of the party locations until security concerns BE Bezos and Sánchez prompted to leave it back to its own protection in Croatia.
Enter Venice on board the 417ft Koru Could be the ultimate nod of the 21st century by the third row man in the world, comparable to former conquerors such as Napoleon, who triumphantly swept through La Serenissima and made it his own. But his plans were thwarted by a few Venetian demonstrators, which were disrupted by extravagant wealth exhibitions and concerned about the fragility of the city. Instead, the Amazon founder/Blue Origin Rocket Tycoon and his multimillionairess Fiancée were seen today that he defeated it on a water taxi.
Still, at least she was Covered and roughly. For a wedding that is so big that it should be visible from space, there was no VIP when I sailed past four luxury yachts this morning. Their bored security forces seemed to stare in … um … outer space.
Where else can I find an A-list campaign? The first party of the wedding extravagance is said to be a few miles from the point where the yachts are parked, in the Aman Venice Hotel, where the bride and groom booked their glamorous honeymoon suite and a total of 24 rooms.
This is no surprise: the former Palazzo Papadopoli from the 16th century, in which the Aman is now housed, has its reputation as a sophisticated wedding location of the choice when Hollywood star George Clooney was his wife, Amal, and Mr. Clooney.
The hotel is surrounded by high stone walls and is a natural fortress. When I resolve the area around 12 noon, the security guard stops me at the decorative iron gate at the back entrance and tells me that I can’t go any further. “The hotel is closed, you can’t come in,” he says.
Nevertheless, it was difficult to miss the black -clad technicians who moved the audiovisual equipment inside, and the two workers who came out and passed me. “Has Mr. Bezos already arrived at the hotel?” I ask her. “He hosts a party for his guests tonight?”
“I don’t think,” you say vague before I disappear.
The former Palazzo offers breathtaking frescoes by the Venetian master Tiepolo and a garden courtyard, in which Clooney’s guests celebrated until the early hours of the morning. The main entrance of the hotel with a view of the Grand Canal was wrapped in curtains again to protect the identity of the VIPs from their water taxis, but that does not prevent half a dozen paparazzi with its cameras on a small footbridge next to the building.
“Do you know if Bezos has arrived?” I ask her. “No idea,” you answer with a remarkable Venetian accent. “We just catch some sun.”
On the other side of the city, in the Cannaregio Quartal, rumors about another potential party event in front of the Bezos weddings are circulated. I jump into a water bus before I have been around the Canal in the Grande and through a labyrinth of alleys that leads to the Madonna dell’orto church or the Madonna of the garden.
Apart from the well-tried tourist path, the picturesque church houses the grave of the Renaissance artist Jacopo Robusti, better known as Tintoretto, together with two of his works.
Outside the church there is a walled cloister on one side and a historic building on the other side that goes back to the 14th century. Dozens of workers who wear the logo of the wedding organizers Lanza and Baucina, ferries on their black T-shirts boxes with furniture and audiovisual devices during the day into both areas that are flanked by bordered security officers and police fliers.
An insider tells me that Cocktails Mr. Bezos and his well -heeled guests are served in the garden with guests before moving into a richly decorated room that is known as Sala dei Mercanti for dinner. According to media reports, every non -authorized boat traffic is prohibited.
“And would that be tomorrow evening?” I ask my person in knowledge. He just shakes his head and smiles.
It’s a kind of breakthrough – but I’m afraid that this game of cat and mouse is not over yet.
