Here comes Mrs. Bezos.
Lauren Sánchez married Jeff Bezos in a lavish Italian ceremony in Venice on Friday, walking down the aisle in a lace long-sleeved Dolce & Gabbana gown.
Her dress featured a corseted waist, turtleneck and buttons from neck to the floor, culminating in a mermaid-style skirt.
The helicopter pilot, 55, wore pulled her hair back into a bun, leaving some pieces out in the front underneath her lace-trimmed veil.
She added Dolce & Gabbana Alta Gioielleria Miracolo earrings featuring four diamonds cut from a single stone and inlaid in white gold as her “something borrowed,” according to Vogue.
The style was inspired by the high-necked lace wedding dress Sophia Loren wore in 1958’s “Houseboat” to marry Cary Grant, she told the mag.
“It went from ‘I want a simple, sexy modern dress’ to ‘I want something that evokes a moment,’ and where I am right now. I am a different person than I was five years ago,” Sánchez added.
“I researched pictures of brides in the 1950s,” she added. “I wanted to reflect back, and I saw Sophia Loren and her hands were [in a prayer position] and she was in high lace, up to the neck, and I said, ‘That’s it. That’s the dress.’”
She predicted that people would be surprised by the covered-up look.
“It is a departure from what people expect,” she told Vogue, “from what I expect—but it’s very much me.”
“06/27/2025 ♥️,” she simply captioned an Instagram post after changing her name on the social media platform to Lauren Sánchez Bezos post-ceremony.
The groom, meanwhile wore a classic black tuxedo, also by the Italian fashion brand, during the nuptials, which took place on the island of San Giorgio Maggiore.
For the wedding dinner, she will change into a second corseted gown, this time inspired by the Rita Hayworth film “Gilda,” Vogue reports — as well as a third look for the party, a cocktail dress by Oscar de la Renta featuring 600 yards of hand-sewn chain and 175,000 crystals.
In March, the couple were seen at the Dolce & Gabbana store in Milan for a fitting, tipping off fans that they may go for the high-fashion brand on the big day.
Dolce & Gabbana is a somewhat sentimental choice for the bride, as her son Nikko Gonzalez made his modeling debut at the brand’s Milan Fashion Week show in January 2024 and strut his stuff on the runway for the Alta Sartoria fashion show a few months later, with the proud mom rocking a sheer black gown in the front row.
The couple have been celebrating their nuptials all week, touching down in Venice on Wednesday.
Amid a wave of protests in Venice, Page Six revealed that the business magnate and Sánchez donated to a number of local charities in the city as part of their wedding planning process and reportedly sourced almost all of their wedding goods from Venetian vendors.
Dolce & Gabbana, while founded in Legnano, Italy, certainly fits the bill, too.
Insiders told Page Six that Anna Wintour had a hand in picking out the bridal attire — though she won’t be in attendance at the star-studded nuptials. However, we previously reported that the nuptials will be covered in Vogue at a later date.
The A-list celebrity guest list included Ivanka Trump, Kris Jenner, Kim Kardashian, Eva Longoria, Leonardo DiCaprio and more.
Bezos proposed to Sánchez in 2023 after five years together with a massive engagement ring estimated to be worth $2.5 million. The Blue Origin flight member celebrated a lavish bachelorette weekend in Paris last month, wearing a parade of bridal white outfits.
While she didn’t sport any Dolce & Gabbana on her girls’ trip, the sojourn was filled with high-fashion and skin-baring looks from Oscar de la Renta, Galia Lahav and Vivienne Westwood, all designers whom we expect to see in her wardrobe for the rest of the week’s activities.
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