Lauren Sánchez and Jeff Bezos Are Married! See Inside Her Final Wedding Dress Fitting
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.'
Today is a shoot for Vogue. The day before, Sánchez and Bezos were at the Dolce & Gabbana atelier in central Milan for their final fittings. In a few weeks and 170 miles away, they will marry in front of some 200 family and friends in Venice. 'It was more powerful than I thought,' Sánchez says of yesterday's fitting. Bezos begged to see the dress. 'I almost gave in!' she admits. 'But I want it to be a surprise. As you get a little older, not many things surprise you. I can't wait to see his face.'
She is now posing, hands on hips and leaning forward—Fellini-esque in the mermaid-line gown—framed by an allée of cypress poplars. 'I feel like a princess,' she says. "You look like a princess!' the eager chorus of onlookers—glam team, seamstresses, production crew—parries back. A team of Dolce tailors, dressed in crisp white work coats with black crochet Peter Pan collars and grosgrain ribbon belts, unfolds a tulle and lace veil with the precision of surgeons. When a winged ant gets caught in the delicate fabric, a frenzy of hushed, urgent Italian ensues before the ant is carefully, gingerly dislodged.
The veil is applied to Sánchez's head like a crown. A man on a scooter tootles past the property line and a momentary panic sets in. The location has been chosen to avoid any chance of Milanese paparazzi. Was the man wearing a GoPro? No, the Italian shoot producer assures everyone. That was just a maize farmer headed to the neighboring property. No GoPro.
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