Overview

• On her July 17 podcast episode, Sara Foster affirmed that none of the roughly 200 guests signed non-disclosure agreements for the three-day June ceremony.
• Despite an estimated $50 million budget, attendees described events aboard Bezos’s yacht, on San Giorgio Island, and at the Arsenale as remarkably personal and low-key.
• High-profile figures including Oprah Winfrey, Leonardo DiCaprio and Mick Jagger opted to remain off-camera or declined photos to uphold the couple’s privacy preferences.
• Organizers enhanced security and limited protester access by relocating the main ceremony ashore to the Arsenale and contracting local caterers and artisans.
• Local activists sustained demonstrations over overtourism after the celebrations concluded, while the weekend generated an estimated €40–48 million boost for Venice’s hospitality sector.