The bride is corseted and cosseted in her high-necked, hand-appliquéd Italian lace wedding dress on the grounds of an 18th-century brick villa outside of Milan. “I’m gonna cry!” says the soon-to-be Lauren Sánchez Bezos. “I’m gonna be a mess on the day, but the best kind of mess.”

If there were ever a wedding to rival a red carpet, it’s this one. As Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez tie the knot in what’s already being hailed as the "wedding of the century," all eyes have turned to Venice,