These are the celebs attending Jeff Bezos' Venice wedding
VENICE, Italy — The Venice wedding bonanza of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez Bezos reached its third and final day Saturday after the couple tied the knot a day earlier in front of around 200 celebrity guests in a secluded area of the lagoon city.
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Details of the much-anticipated wedding ceremony Friday night were kept tightly secret, until Sanchez Bezos posted to Instagram a photo of herself beaming in a white gown as she stood alongside a tuxedo-clad Bezos, the world's fourth-richest man.
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Athletes, celebrities, influencers and business leaders converged to revel in extravagance that was as much a testament to the couple's love as to their extraordinary wealth.
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The celebrations are expected to end later Saturday with a large party in a former medieval shipyard, amid high security.
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Most guests arrived between Thursday and Friday. The star-studded list included names like Oprah Winfrey and NFL great Tom Brady.
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Here's a look at the who's who of the Bezos-Sanchez Bezos nuptials.
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The bride and groom are staying at the Aman Venice hotel on the Grand Canal, where the groom posed for photos and the bride blew kisses to the press.
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Ivanka Trump, her husband Jared Kushner and their three children arrived Wednesday.
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Other celebrities on the guest list include:
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— Queen Rania of Jordan arrived in Venice on Thursday for the wedding, but she wasn't accompanied by her spouse, King Abdullah II, the monarch of Jordan.
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— Kim Kardashian, her sister Khloe and mother Kris Jenner were seen arriving at the Madonna dell'Orto event Thursday evening.
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— Orlando Bloom
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— Bill Gates
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— Usher
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— Jewel Kilcher
— Sydney Sweeney
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One group called Extinction Rebellion staged a small protest in St. Mark's Square on Thursday featuring a masked bride and groom and people holding posters decrying climate change and income inequalities.
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