In June, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and journalist Lauren Sánchez married in Venice in front of an A-list crowd, in what some dubbed the “wedding of the century”. The guest list included the Kardashians, Oprah Winfey, Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Brady and Orlando Bloom for the three-day extravaganza. It wasn’t without its controversy, though, and in the city some believed the lavish ceremony was an exploitation of Venice, while ordinary residents suffer from overtourism and a threat of climate-induced flooding.
