Then came the Arsenale pajama party on Saturday. Simultaneously proving that he is a man’s man, and with a wink at the 1960s heyday of the Playboy empire, DiCaprio went straight for the jugular in the Hef-iest of the several Hugh Hefner sets on parade, in Hef’s trademark early-era crimson silk, no less. DiCaprio’s striking LA Dodgers topper, in all black, adds geographical authenticity to the provenance: For all we know, these crimson silk jammies could have been a set of Hef’s, snatched up by an eagle-eyed DiCaprio as they closed the Playboy mansion down. It’s the strikingly broad leg of the pant, cut to be comfortable for a frictionless exit, that scream Hef-in-his-1963-heyday. The Gritti Palace associate greeter just to DiCaprio’s left seems pleased with the joke.

Did he duck again? Sadly, yes, but not before the paparazzi caught the kit, crimson top, crimson bottoms, and the silver neck chain underneath. Hef would have been proud.

Easily half the wedding weekend’s Figaro-esque comedy was brought by the great chase given by the guests and the attendant Sanchez/Bezos party-planning and security apparatus to the coursing hounds of the international press. Although in architecture it was a game of thrust and parry, it was no less hard fought. Pictured top, a textbook example of the box-and-block tactics that the police on Venice’s new hybrid jet-skis used to corral the photographers aboard their private launches outside the sole dock on the private island of San Giorgio Maggiore, site of the Sanchez/Bezos ring ceremony and dinner, on June 27. Jet skis are a splendid invention, for mega-yachtsmen, surfers and surf competitions, and security forces alike. The Venetian police’s hybrids, recently aquired, are by Huracan Marine, designed to run on diesel when the cops need bursts of power and speed, electricity when all that’s required is slow cruising.

For Italy and for Venice, the rather large Sanchez/Bezos parade did leave more than a few bonuses for Italy and for Venice in its wake. With pleasantly surprising discretion, in April, as they selected Venice to be their wedding celebration location, Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez set a 3-million-euro ($3.5-million) gift in motion to three Venetian charities, while also requesting that their guests eschew personal gifts. Italy’s tourism ministry estimated a 957-million-euro ($1.12 billion) benefit to the overall tourism economy. The lion’s share of that impressive number was calculated to have been in publicity for the country and the city. Like the coverage or not, that, they got in spades.