“We’re used to managing crucial occasions,” Deputy Venice Mayor Simone Venturini informed NBC Information on Wednesday as the town equipped for the marriage, including that the town beforehand hosted the late Pope Francis and world leaders attending the G7 and G20 summits.
In an earlier interview, he additionally recalled that the town had managed actor George Clooney and human rights lawyer Amal Alamuddin’s 2014 marriage ceremony, as crowds lined the canals and a whole lot of well-wishers gathered exterior Metropolis Corridor.
In contrast to the Clooney marriage ceremony nonetheless, he mentioned, Bezos’ marriage ceremony wouldn’t be authorized below Italian legislation as a result of it wanted “to be finished in an official place just like the Metropolis Corridor.” Neither Bezos nor Sanchez, a former TV information anchor, had requested this, he mentioned.
In consequence, some have speculated that the couple have already legally wed in the US.
Not everybody within the metropolis is as welcoming as Venturini. In latest weeks, there have been protests concerning the Amazon founder’s presence within the metropolis, with those that object displaying the banner “No Area for Bezos,” a play on phrases referring to his house exploration firm, Blue Origin.
Round a dozen Venetian organizations together with anti-cruise ship campaigners and housing advocates, have been joined by bigger activist teams like Greenpeace, which unfurled a large tarp within the metropolis’s well-known St. Mark’s Sq. on Monday, with an image of a smiling Bezos beneath the phrases: “Should you can lease Venice on your marriage ceremony you’ll be able to pay extra taxes.”
