Jeff Bezos, Lauren Sanchez Wedding Good For Venice, Says Local TikToker

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Not all Venetians are losing sleep over Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez tying the knot in their city -- in fact, TikToker and proud local Giulia Raffaello is welcoming the whole circus with open arms.

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00:00look you're there um is this considered disruptive or celebratory this wedding no i don't think that

00:11a celebrity wedding is to be called disruptive i think there are so many daily practices that

00:16happen in venice that are more disruptive and i'm going to tell you why this is because this

00:20is not the first celebrity wedding by the way that happens in ben in venice and whenever they

00:25happen they come with intention they come with love and protections toward the city and let's be

00:31honest they come with supporting businesses they support local vendors they support new jobs venice

00:37needs that venice is a really dedicated city if not the most dedicated city in the world and i don't

00:43think it can survive without that so imagine the amount of countries that would have loved to have

00:48this wedding in their locations and as a local i'm always really excited to see what happens at

00:54these celebrity weddings and you know why because they always pick incredible locations and they

01:00always transform location that otherwise we would probably have abandoned or forgotten about

01:05they do incredible settings and i personally and many other people are really curious always to see

01:11the pictures the videos because they're gonna be able to show us venice in a way that we normally do not

01:17see what would you say to the people who are protesting who clearly have very strong feelings

01:21that i would guess are centered around as you can see there uh mr bezos's wealth so what would you say

01:28to them i would say that we need to focus on what happens on a daily basis and on the people that are

01:32supposed to protect venice on a daily basis not on the people that are coming to venice with an

01:38intention to protect an intention to support having celebrity weddings and as i said it's not the first

01:43one is actually the disruptor of venice i think it's the over tourism the daily travelers the way these

01:49daily travelers are managed and the way we are going to manage venice in the future that is actually

01:57more disruptive you mentioned that it's great for the economy of venice um and it looks like bezos is

02:06going to drop about 10 million dollars so i get it right there but all of these things are scheduled

02:11events and they're having so many of them is this really going to kind of filter into the society

02:19into the community of venice look i'm pretty sure that they are not going to roam around like a daily

02:26traveler to venice but i'm pretty sure that i've been a local a lot of local vendors involved in all

02:32the activities because yes you can definitely bring your favorite people from your home country to plan

02:37but you will always have to rely on local vendors so let's say all the drivers of the boats and the

02:42yachts all the people that will do the flower settings you will have to manage them all the

02:47people that will do activities for all of this you need to rely on venice i'm pretty sure they will be

02:51taken around in an exclusive way or artists from venice will be going to their own private venues so

02:58that's what i'm trying to bring on the table basically i do think there is going to be a lot of involvement

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