On Wednesday, other activists launched a float down the Grand Canal featuring a mannequin of Bezos clinging onto an Amazon box, his fists full of fake dollars. The British publicity firm that announced the stunt said it wasn't a protest of the wedding “but against unchecked wealth, media control, and the growing privatisation of public spaces.”

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and his fiancée, former journalist Lauren Sanchez, arrived in Venice on Wednesday ahead of three days of lavish VIP parties in the romantic Italian lagoon city to celebrate their wedding,

Protesters in Venice claim their threat to blockade the city’s canals has forced a venue change for a party to celebrate the wedding of billionaire Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and journalist Lauren Sanchez.