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Venice remains a picturesque location for weddings, with more than 600 weddings each year.

Venice remains a picturesque location for weddings, with more than 600 weddings each year.

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Tammy LaGroce

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Ms Emanuela Giangreco, a wedding planner, tells clients her home city of Venice is “delicate”, a description that fits uneasily into accounts of how the

wedding of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and his fiancee Lauren Sanchez

is expected to unfold there this weekend.

In March, Ms Sanchez’s brother Paul Sanchez told tabloid TMZ that the wedding, with about 200 guests expected to attend, would rival the pageantry of Princess Diana’s nuptials at St Paul’s Cathedral in London. (The London firm Lanza and Baucina, known for its discretion, is planning the event.)

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