For most people, the days leading up to their wedding are not the most relaxing time. There are welcome bags to assemble, details to be finalized with the venue, and your cousin is texting to ask if his new girlfriend can wear a dress she swears is “so off-white it’s basically yellow.” But Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez are rich enough that that’s someone else’s problem. In fact, the couple are so chill about their upcoming nuptials that they had the time to throw a foam party on the Amazon founder’s megayacht.
On Sunday, Bezos and Sánchez were photographed making out while covered in suds aboard his beloved Koru. In photos acquired by TMZ, the couple appeared to be having the time of their lives playing on the deck and posing for pics while an employee shoots foam at them. According to the outlet, the soapy celebration was for Sánchez’s son’s 19th birthday. What better way to ring in the last of your teenage years than watching your mom and her fiancé pack on the PDA?
In just a couple of days, the couple will make their way to Venice, where they’ll reportedly be welcoming around 200 guests for their wedding. The people of Venice are none too pleased about this and have been out in the streets to protest the event. On Monday, Greenpeace activists unfurled a giant banner in the city’s St. Mark’s Square that read, “If You Can Rent Venice for Your Wedding, You Can Pay More Tax.” The anti-Amazon crowd claimed a victory after Bezos was reportedly forced to change one of his party venues following threats that protesters would jump into canals with inflatable crocodiles to stop guests from entering. “Bezos is on the run — this is a crazy victory for a small group of people with no money who went up against one of the richest men on the planet,” Tommaso Cacciari, one of the protest organizers, told the London Times.
However, the Bezos-Sánchez camp claims that the couple wants to disturb the city as little as possible. The couple’s wedding planner, Lanza & Baucina Limited, issued a statement on Sunday saying that it had been instructed to cause as little disruption to the city as possible. “From the outset, instructions from our client and our own guiding principles were abundantly clear: the minimizing of any disruption to the city, the respect for its residents and institutions and the overwhelming employment of locals in the crafting of the events,” the planner told local outlets.
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Something tells me that very little of this conflict is making its way to the happy couple. It’s probably hard to hear very valid criticisms of your business and lavish wedding when you’ve got all that foam in your ears!
