Everything goes wrong at Jeff Bezos' wedding
You would think that if you have twelve zeros in your bank account (with a non-zero number before that of course, otherwise it wouldn't work for me either), you have the wind at your back in life. Naive of course, because Lauren Sanchez might not have to think about the costs of the dress and her waterfall bouquet, but she has problems. And they are of a completely different order.
Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez: a wedding full of drama
A normal bride mainly worries about the weather. Lauren Sanchez and Jeff Bezos have incurred the wrath of an entire city with their wedding. Jeff Bezos thought he could ‘just’ get married in Venice. We give that city a million to invest in research for the preservation of the lagoon and then the snippy little faces would be quiet again, he thought.
The Venetian wrath: Jeff Bezos as an unwanted guest
But if there is one thing that Italians are disgusted by, it is a lack of respect for their culture. Seeing Venice as an amusement park that you can just rent out and take over with your meters-long yacht. They find it disrespectful and tasteless, and when I see the images of the foam party (which is indeed exactly as you think it is: toned abs and floss bikinis covered in foam on a yacht so large that pompous doesn't even cover it), I can't help but agree with them.
A million from Jeff Bezos? Peanuts!
And a million is nice, but in relative terms for Jeff Bezos, it's less than the tip you give your pizza delivery guy when he arrives at your door within the agreed time. When you get married, you want everyone to share your joy. There was a stain on the marriage anyway, because the relationship with Lauren Sanchez's brother is very bad. Start with.
Protest at St. Mark's Square: no warm welcome
Getting married in Venice where the Venetians have covered the entire St. Mark's Square with a banner that says If You Can Rent Venice For Your Wedding, You Can Pay More Rent, and where the locals are sending all sorts of rubber boats and other floating stuff up the Grand Canal to prevent your guests from the Aman hotel (which has rooms ranging from 2 to 10,000 euros per night) from getting to the wedding venue, that is not exactly pleasant to call.
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Safety measures or reputation crisis?
Meanwhile, news comes out that the wedding venue has been changed for safety reasons. But I think: those safety measures have certainly been taken. That seems to me, if you count Donald Trump among your guests, to be in order. And I also don't think the Venetian people are planning an attack.
A wedding at sea: the circle complete for Jeff Bezos
No, it's just a proud way of saying that you don't like getting married among the protest banners. You want it to smell like rose petals and not like smoke bombs. Rumors even say that the ceremony will “just” take place on Jeff Bezos's yacht. Nice and private – this is an understatement – and at the place where Jeff proposed to Lauren two years ago. Then the circle is complete. That much is true.
Source: LA Times
