{"id":412314,"date":"2026-01-17T05:26:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T05:26:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/412314\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T05:26:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T05:26:06","slug":"starring-role-for-kardashian-jetty-as-venice-visitors-seek-peeks-of-bezos-wedding-sites-venice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/412314\/","title":{"rendered":"Starring role for \u2018Kardashian jetty\u2019 as Venice visitors seek peeks of Bezos wedding sites | Venice"},"content":{"rendered":"

For the residents of Venice<\/a> who travel daily through the city\u2019s waterways, the small wooden floating jetty outside the Gritti Palace hotel is nothing special, \u201cno different to a London underground stop\u201d, as Igor Scomparin, a tour guide, puts it.<\/p>\n

But for a certain type of tourist it is a must-see spot. In June last year, Kim Kardashian disembarked from a water taxi here and navigated its planks during the five-day wedding<\/a> of the billionaire Amazon boss, Jeff Bezos, and Lauren S\u00e1nchez, a former TV journalist.<\/p>\n

The reality TV star was among the scores of celebrities and members of the world\u2019s super-rich who had descended on the city to celebrate the nuptials, which included everything from pyjama parties to elegant dinners, and provoked widespread protests by anti-Bezos campaigners who threatened to disrupt the festivities by letting loose a convoy of inflatable crocodiles into the city\u2019s canals.<\/p>\n

Jeff Bezos and Lauren S\u00e1nchez Bezos leaving the Aman Venice hotel on 29 June 2025. Photograph: Guglielmo Mangiapane\/Reuters<\/p>\n

The event, which the Italian press called \u201cthe wedding of the century\u201d, brought in about \u20ac957.3m to the local economy, according to estimates from Italy\u2019s tourism ministry, the bulk of which is believed to have been derived from the huge hubbub created by the world\u2019s media as it captured all the friction and frivolity.<\/p>\n

More than six months on, the fascination with the Bezos shindig shows no signs of waning as rising numbers of visitors seek peeks of the various places frequented by the bride, groom and their glitterati guests.<\/p>\n

Gone are the days when the top requests for Scomparin \u2013 a guide esteemed for his insight and intimate knowledge of Venice\u2019s history, culture and traditions \u2013 involved visits to St Mark\u2019s Square, the Doge\u2019s Palace or the Rialto Bridge.<\/p>\n

Now his customers want to be taken off the beaten track, away from the crowds and, increasingly so since June, \u201cthey want to see where the Bezoses got married and where the celebrities ended up\u201d, he said. \u201cThey saw all the media attention and now they are curious to see what these places are really like.\u201d<\/p>\n

Venice tour guide Igor Scomparin shows tourists \u2018goti de fornasa\u2019 drinking glasses, which were among the gifts given to the Bezos wedding guests. Photograph: Marta Clinco\/The Guardian<\/p>\n

A recent Bezos wedding tour began with a stroll along a street filled with designer boutiques where Ivanka Trump shopped, before the group stopped opposite the seven-star Aman hotel, famous for its frescoes by the Venetian master Giambattista Tiepolo, where the bride and groom stayed.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis whole area was full of paparazzi,\u201d Scomparin said as he pointed towards the hotel. \u201cPeople mostly want to know how much it costs. When I tell them prices start from about \u20ac3,500 a night for a basic room, they are not so much shocked, just interested to know about that kind of lifestyle.\u201d<\/p>\n

Scomparin\u2019s clients, mostly from the US, want to see San Giorgio island, where the couple exchanged vows, and the Scuola Grande della Misericordia, the majestic 16th-century building in the city centre where they had hoped to wed before the plan was scuppered by the threatened crocodile stunt. Then there is the Arsenale, a former medieval shipyard in an eastern district of the city where the afterparty was held.<\/p>\n

Alongside the key wedding locations there is high demand for rides on the wooden taxi boats that transported celebrities, among them Oprah Winfrey, Orlando Bloom and Leonardo DiCaprio, as well as for visits to the piazzas where celebrities were spotted or where they took selfies, not to mention the now famous \u201cKardashian jetty\u201d.<\/p>\n

Boats carrying Bezos and photographers travel past St Mark\u2019s Square. Photograph: Luigi Costantini\/AP<\/p>\n

\u201cTeenagers especially tell me they saw the photos on Instagram of her arriving and want to go to that spot,\u201d Scomparin said. \u201cBut when they see it they are a little disappointed because it\u2019s not as chic as it looked. It\u2019s just a regular, everyday jetty that locals use to get on and off boats.\u201d<\/p>\n

People have been snapping up the two main gifts received by the wedding guests: Friuliane, the velvet shoes typically worn by gondoliers, and goti de fornasa drinking glasses, traditionally made on the island of Murano.<\/p>\n

An often impromptu bonus to Scomparin\u2019s tours is if his customers get to see packages emblazoned with the Amazon brand whizzing along Venice\u2019s canals as they are being delivered to their recipients.<\/p>\n

George and Amal Clooney got married in Venice in 2014<\/a>, and three years before that elephants were brought to the city for a lavish Bollywood wedding. But neither attracted as much intrigue \u2013 or indignation \u2013 as the Bezos one. The protests were organised by various groups, from those fighting overtourism who accused local authorities of being hellbent on turning Venice into a playground for the rich, to climate activists and people appalled by Bezos\u2019s support for Donald Trump.<\/p>\n

George Clooney and Amal Alamuddin on the way to their civil wedding in Venice in 2014. Photograph: Robino Salvatore\/GC Images<\/p>\n

The protests were noisy but marginal to the occasion, which took place without any issues, according to Michael Zennaro, a wedding photographer. \u201cIt was an opportunity to show off Venice across the world and to show that weddings can take place here \u2013 away from the crowds, in more private settings,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Marigiulia Sella, a wedding planner, said there had been an increase in enquiries for high-end weddings. \u201cVery often they want experiences that span multiple days. One of the beautiful things about Venice is that you are in a unique city with high-end historic venues that offer so much, as well as a lot of privacy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Scomparin points towards San Giorgio island, where the couple exchanged vows. Photograph: Marta Clinco\/The Guardian<\/p>\n

During his Bezos tours, Scomparin provides plenty of interesting snippets about other aspects of Venice, including an abandoned building that nobody wants to buy because it is believed to be cursed.<\/p>\n

But one thing he does not know is what became of the designer dress \u2013 one of 27 that S\u00e1nchez packed for the event \u2013 that was later reported missing<\/a>. \u201cThat one is still a mystery,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For the residents of Venice who travel daily through the city\u2019s waterways, the small wooden floating jetty outside…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":412315,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[236,88],"class_list":{"0":"post-412314","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412314\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/412315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}