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Last week, in the city of Doges, the founder of Amazon and the TV presenter celebrated their love during a sumptuous ceremony that put the nerves of the guests at Rude.
Venice, dream decor … or nightmare? If the marriage of the co -founder of Amazon Jeff Bezos and the former presenter Lauren Sánchez, organized in the Serenissime, promised to be the worldly event of the year, he also proved to be trying for the guests. According to information from Daily Mailthe participants of this grand wedding would simply have experienced a real logistics marathon. Between the incessant trips in a taxi boat from one place to another, the overwhelming summer heat and a loaded program spanning three days, the experience turned into a fighter’s course for the 200 handpicked guests.
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The particular geography of Venice was the main challenge of these festivities. “The heat was already difficult to bear, but the fact that all the guests must constantly move by boat, with all the complexity that this implies, made the entire route difficult to follow,” confides a source close to the festivities with British tabloid.
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The back and forth between the different reception places, all accessible only by water, have transformed each trip into shipping. “Everyone had to come to the same place at the same time, which created permanent stress,” added the witness.
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“The guests complained of being tired”
The celebrations began Thursday, June 26 in the evening with a welcome dinner at Madonna Dell’orto church, in the Cannaregio district. Then, the next day, the Bezos exchanged their wishes on the island of San Giorgio Maggiore during a big party that started in the late afternoon. The festivities continued on Saturday with a lunch at the Harry’s Bar, a Venetian institution, later followed by a luxury pajama evening. Despite the splendor deployed, the testimonies report an exhaustion of the guests. “The guests complained of being completely tired on wedding day, not to mention the next day,” said this intimate Daily Mail.
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Among the brand guests were Oprah Winfrey, Leonardo DiCaprio, Sydney Sweeney, Orlando Bloom, Jessica Alba, Bill Gates and Ivanka Trump. The Kardashian-Jenner family was also present: Kim Kardashian, Kylie Jenner, Kendall Jenner, Khloé Kardashian and their matriarch Kris Jenner. According to the indiscretions, Kris Jenner would have exerted pressures so that all her daughters were invited to the festivities, while only Kim and herself initially appeared on the guest list.
