Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez wedding ceremony in Venice

June 28, 2025

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Instagram/Reuters Lauren Sánchez wears a Dolce & Gabbana haute couture gown while Jeff Bezos places his arm around her while wearing a smart black tuxedo

Billionaire Amazon founder Jeff Bezos tied the knot with TV presenter Lauren Sanchez in a lavish wedding ceremony in Venice on Friday.

Actuality stars, actors, royals and a complete host of A-listers have been trailed by paparazzi in water taxis as they made their approach to the three-day occasion.

Oprah Winfrey, Orlando Bloom, Kylie Jenner and Ivanka Trump have been simply a few of the celebrities seen within the metropolis for the star-studded occasion.

The festivities are anticipated to finish on Saturday with a big celebration in a former medieval shipyard, the place Woman Gaga and Elton John are anticipated to carry out.

Carrying a lace Dolce & Gabbana high fashion robe that took 900 hours of atelier work, Sanchez advised photographers that she “felt like a princess”.

Sanchez, 55, was later seen beaming alongside a jubilant Bezos, 61, after the ceremony, in an image posted on Instagram, which was captioned with a love coronary heart and the date.

An estimated 200 folks, 70 of whom are household, have been invited to the nuptials, although Sanchez advised Vogue that the occasion was “extraordinarily intimate”.

Friday’s ceremony happened on the small island of San Giorgio, the place Matteo Bocelli – son of Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli – reportedly carried out.

Oprah Winfrey, who attended the pair’s engagement celebration in 2023, was among the many 200 friends

Getty Images Oprah Winfrey in Venice, Italy, for the wedding of Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez. Oprah is wearing a brown and white patterned dress and her hair is styled in loose waves. — Oprah Winfrey, who attended the pair’s engagement celebration in 2023, was among the many 200 friends

Kim and Khloe Kardashian shared footage from the occasion, and have been later photographed rushing away in a water taxi

Reuters Kim and Khloe Kardashian pout and make a 'v' sign with their fingers as their mother Kris Jenner snaps a picture on a boat in Venice. — Kim and Khloe Kardashian shared footage from the occasion, and have been later photographed rushing away in a water taxi

Actor Orlando Bloom posed for photographers as he left the occasion

Reuters Orlando Bloom making a peace sign at cameras on a boat at Jeff Bezos's wedding in Venice. — Actor Orlando Bloom posed for photographers as he left the occasion

A tuxedo-clad Bezos waved from a small motor boat

Getty Images Jeff Bezos in dark glasses and tuxedo waving from the back of a small motor boat in Venice on 27 June 2025. — A tuxedo-clad Bezos waved from a small motor boat

Whereas the precise value of the marriage isn’t recognized, estimates vary from $20m (£14m) to greater than $50m.

The occasion has attracted protests from quite a lot of teams in Venice, from locals combating over-tourism to local weather change activists.

This would be the second wedding ceremony for each Sanchez and Bezos.

The couple have seven kids between them from earlier marriages and relationships.

They obtained engaged in Might 2023 on board their 417-foot crusing yacht, Koru, named after a Maori image for “new life.”

In November 2023, the pair held an engagement celebration in Beverly Hills, with Oprah Winfrey, Salma Hayek Pinault, Barbra Streisand, Kris Jenner in attendance.