VENICE - Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and journalist Lauren Sanchez began three days of lavish wedding celebrations in Venice on Thursday with tight security shielding their VIP guests from protesters. Read more at straitstimes.

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez’s Venice wedding bonanza is getting under way. The couple shared a kiss before leading their celebrity guests through the lagoon city to the first bash of the weekend.

As a starry guest list of celebrities descend on Venice for the weekend wedding of of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez, activists have united under the banner “No Space for Bezos” to protest the nuptials.