It’ll take more than penny-pinching spaceman Jeff Bezos to sink the ancient city of Venice, it appears. The Donald Trump-backing owner of the Washington Post, who founded online retailer Amazon in 1994, is planning a summertime wedding to his fiancee, former journalist Lauren Sánchez. Worries were raised after its location was identified as the historic floating metropolis, which has faced increasing scrutiny as a region of environmental peril since massive floods hit it in 2019. But according to a statement from Mayor Luigi Brugnaro, the City of Canals is ready to handle an influx of celebrities, staffers, and media for the couple’s walk down the aisle.

Engaged since at least 2023, Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez’s wedding has been the subject of hot debate: citing unnamed sources, news outlets claimed the pair would tie the knot in a $600 million ceremony in Aspen last December, but whoopsie, they sure didn’t. “This whole thing is completely false — none of this is happening,” Bezos said on X (formerly Twitter) at the time.

“The old adage ‘don’t believe everything you read’ is even more true today than it ever has been,” said the Post owner, who saw a mass subscriber exodus last month after—per NPR— he announced that he would “radically overhaul the paper’s opinion pages to reflect libertarian priorities and to exclude opposing points of view.”

“Now lies can get ALL the way around the world before the truth can get its pants on. So be careful out there folks and don’t be gullible,” the so-called “superbillionaire” continued.

(L-R) CEO of Meta and Facebook Mark Zuckerberg, Lauren Sanchez, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Google CEO Sundar Pichai and Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk arrive for the inauguration of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda on January 20, 2025 in Washington, DC.

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Bezos issued no such disclaimers when news broke earlier this month that the couple would say their vows in Venice, Italy, with a list of invited guests that reportedly includes Leonardo DiCaprio, Eva Longoria, Orlando Bloom and Katy Perry, Brian Glazer, Barbra Streisand, Kim Kardashian, Kris Jenner, and fellow Trump inauguration booster Jewel.

According to Page Six, “President Trump, first daughter Ivanka Trump and her husband, Jared Kushner, as well as his brother, Joshua Kushner and his wife, model Karlie Kloss” also received invites to the event.

The city of Venice confirmed at least some of the wedding details on Saturday, in a statement reported on by the AP, among other outlets. “The many speculations and fake news circulating about Jeff Bezos’ wedding are completely unfounded,” the statement—attributed to Brugnaro—reads. “Venice is used to being the stage for events and shows every week, without significant impacts,” it said, noting that only 200 guests are expected for the Bezos/Sánchez nuptials.

According to CNN, mayoral spokesperson Luca Zuin says that the wedding weekend is set for June 24 to 26, and won’t actually be held in the city proper. Instead, the wedding is planned for Bezos’ $500-million superyacht, Koru, which will be anchored in the Venice lagoon, though guests might seek accommodations at one of the city’s many hotels during the days of the event.

The news that the big show will be on the ship is likely a relief to those in United Nations heritage sites site protection branch UNESCO, which issued a 2023 report saying that over-tourism has put the area’s delicate infrastructure at risk. While not currently on the agency’s list of the world’s most gravely endangered sites, it remains under consideration. Officials and agencies “need the push now to act faster, bigger and do more,” said Union of Concerned Scientists deputy director Adam Markham in 2023. Otherwise, “Venice is going to really be strangled to death from climate change and tourism,” a situation that even the world’s second-richest man might not be able to reverse.