Be glad you’re not Jeff Bezos or Lauren Sánchez. Certain, being that wealthy could be superior, however being wealthy comes with rich-people issues. With their Italian marriage ceremony imminent, they’ve a number of issues to fret about that may by no means cross the imaginations of different, extra common {couples} who don’t have 12 digits representing their internet price.

Most particulars of the Venice fête are being saved near the vest. A few native firms have confirmed they’re contributing handcrafted glassware and native pastries to the wedding-favor goodie baggage. Some visitors’ names leaked when the invitations went out in March (we name-drop beneath, by no means concern).

However just a few particulars that is likely to be fairly vexing to the bride and groom are enjoying out in public. Let’s have a look.

Your vacation spot marriage ceremony’s vacation spot would possibly hate you

All of Venice could not really be ticked off, however images, activists and media protection make it appear that approach.

Venice instructor and activist Marta Sottoriva known as the marriage “the symbol of all that is wrong with Venice.”

“There’s a lot of anger in the air because once again the council has enslaved itself to the logic of profit — our city has been sold to the highest bidder,” she instructed the Guardian. “Every time an event of this kind happens, the city comes to a standstill, certain areas become inaccessible and even more tourists arrive.” (Venice has been actually irritated these days by its variety of vacationers, form of just like the Louvre is admittedly irritated.)

“No Space for Bezos” activists converse at a public assembly of residents on June 13 in Venice, Italy.

(Andrea Merola / Bloomberg by way of Getty Pictures)

However tourism councilor Simone Venturini was shocked that anybody is likely to be upset that such a high-profile occasion was occurring within the metropolis.

“We should all be proud that the Bezos wedding, an event of international importance, is being held in the waters of our lagoon,” he instructed the Guardian. “Instead, the usual protest professionals have wasted no time. We want to reiterate that Venice is open to everyone.”

Venturini was extra colourful in chatting with the Wall Avenue Journal, saying, “If Bezos’ wedding goes ahead as planned, without these pain-in-the-ass protests, Venetian citizens won’t even notice.”

The couple’s London-based marriage ceremony planners, Lanza & Baucina, instructed CNN in a press release, “Rumors of ‘taking over’ the city are entirely false and diametrically opposed to our goals and to reality.” They and the consumer, the planners mentioned, wished to reduce any disruption to the town.

That mentioned, it’s inconceivable to get a reservation this week on the Aman Venice, the almost 500-year-old resort on the Grand Canal the place the completely happy couple are rumored to be staying, at the least for a part of their marriage ceremony week, together with a number of marriage ceremony visitors. The place is totally booked via Sunday, per TMZ, at a reported $2,000 to $10,000 an evening per room.

Protests might actually screw issues up

Overlook throwing soup on the “Mona Lisa” — the Bezos marriage ceremony protesters would possibly do one thing really offensive: They’re threatening to screw up visitors on the large day.

“Bezos will never get to the Misericordia [event space],” activist Federica Toninello instructed an appreciative crowd final week, in line with CNN. “We will block the canals, line the streets with our bodies, block the canals with inflatables, dinghies, boats.”

Having simply realized what the Misericordia is, we don’t know what function the situation would possibly play within the nuptials, nevertheless it appears to be like like a pleasant sufficient spot for a reception. Fondazione Giorgio Cini, a cultural heart in-built 1951, has additionally been floated as a marriage venue. However let’s get again to the blockades and such.

One other speaker at that very same rally mentioned she didn’t need Venice remembered as a wonderful marriage ceremony venue however “as the city that did not bend to oligarchs.”

“We can’t miss a chance to disrupt a $10-million wedding,” Na Haby Stella Faye mentioned — as a result of, actually, how typically does that likelihood come round? Though her aim said on the rally was “to stop this wedding,” in her Instagram tales Monday, she was selling a deliberate Saturday protest of Bezos, President Trump and, properly, warfare.

A large banner focusing on Jeff Bezos, the world’s second-richest man, is specified by the Piazza San Marco in Venice, Italy, forward of his marriage ceremony to Lauren Sánchez.

(Greenpeace / Related Press)

Much less aggressive protests embrace a number of banners and “No Space for Bezos” posters which were hung across the metropolis. A colossal message from Greenpeace to Bezos was laid out Monday within the Piazza San Marco. The sq. banner, which learn “IF YOU CAN RENT VENICE FOR YOUR WEDDING YOU CAN PAY MORE TAX,” was shortly folded up and carried away by native cops, the Related Press reported.

“It’s absurd to treat this city like it’s Disneyland,” mentioned Grazia Satta, a retired instructor and social employee, per the Wall Avenue Journal. “The message this wedding sends is that rich people can do whatever they want. We shouldn’t kneel before wealth like this.”

By Monday, Bezos’ safety crew was making last-minute modifications to attempt to outsmart the activists, in line with TMZ. Even the water-taxi firms are being “kept in the dark,” the location mentioned, and if the water taxis don’t know what’s occurring, who actually does?

Maybe Bezos might faucet that $212-billion checking account and enlist a Prime Supply particular person to drop off himself and his bride discreetly at their reception? Although the human-size Amazon field might be a lifeless giveaway.

Whose yacht is largest — and the place will they park?

Sure, we all know yachts don’t “park,” they drop anchor. However it doesn’t matter what you name it, the largest yachts can’t drop anchor in all elements of Venice.

One marriage ceremony idea has held that Bezos and Sánchez will trade their vows on his 417-foot yacht, the Koru, the place he proposed to her two years in the past after 5 years of courting. However reported plans to dock the yacht in a lagoon may need modified. Apparently the close-to-shore idea is beginning to appear like a security hazard on account of these threatened protests of the second-richest man on the planet.

The Koru is much from the one large boat floating round city, thoughts you. Venice has 9 “yacht ports,” all of which have been booked for the marriage week. Apparently, TMZ reported, noncelebrity billionaire yacht house owners are altering their Venice trip plans to keep away from the crush. That has to sting.

Fortuitously, though the yacht state of affairs is fluid and the airspace over Venice is closed, CNN reported that non-public helicopters are being given a go, in case a head of state decides to chopper in. As one does.

One kind of watercraft not concerned within the festivities? Gondolas, or at the least these piloted by individuals the WSJ talked to. “We are too slow,” one gondolier lamented.

Worldwide occasions would possibly have an effect on the visitor record

President Trump reportedly scored an invite to the marriage. Unclear if a plus-one for Melania was included. Nonetheless, the commander in chief is a wee bit busy dealing with world occasions nowadays — arduous to inform if he’ll have the ability to get away, even for a gala occasion like this one. Aren’t vacation spot weddings the worst? So inconvenient.

That mentioned, Ivanka Trump and hubby Jared Kushner reportedly obtained invited too, together with Jared’s brother Joshua Kushner and mannequin spouse Karlie Kloss. So the primary household is likely to be represented in spite of everything. And who is aware of, POTUS might swing by. Does Marine One depend as a “private” helicopter?

Others on the visitor record, per TMZ, embrace Leonardo DiCaprio, Oprah Winfrey, Gayle King, Invoice Gates, singer Jewel, Kim Kardashian, Kris Jenner, Corey Gamble, Barbra Streisand, Eva Longoria, Katy Perry, Orlando Bloom, Brian Grazer, Barry Diller, Diane von Furstenberg, fashions Brooks Nader and Camila Morrone, and Queen Rania of Jordan. Perry gained’t attend, although, as a result of she’s on tour.