Jeff Bezos’ Extravagant Venice Wedding Exposed: With 96 Private Jets Emitting as Much CO2 as Nearly 30,000 Cars, Is This the Height of Billionaire Hypocrisy or Justified Luxury? Should the Staggering Costs and Environmental Impact of Celebrity Events Face Stricter Scrutiny or Is Public Outrage Overblown?

Plane journeys to Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez’s wedding in Venice will emit the same CO2 as nearly 30,000 cars on the road

Jeff Bezos’s wedding is going to be a monumental event, but so will be the amount of CO2 emitted into the atmosphere.

There’s nothing like the glitz and glam of a celebrity wedding. There’s A-listers, billionaires, and décor that would make anyone jealous. However, there’s something a little different between the Amazon CEO’s wedding and one that you’d find in your home state: the use of private jets.

Bezos’ and Lauren Sanchez’s upcoming nuptials has already caused controversy over the cost, and fact that protesters have

been unhappy with him allegedly ‘renting’ out the entire city. And now, his emissions are on the hit list.

Bezos and Sanchez became engaged in May 2023 and are now set to tie the knot this week, as per reports.

Jess Bezos’s wedding will produce more CO2 than thousands of cars (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

The pair are said to be marrying in Venice, Italy, on June 27, with the likes of Katy Perry, Oprah Winfrey, Mick Jagger, and Ivanka Trump expected to attend their wedding.

Last year, it came to light that they would be spending $600 million on their nuptials, but the Amazon founder refuted these claims.

New reports have instead suggested that Bezos and Sanchez could be spending between $15 million to $20 million, per Mail Online.

That’s a lot of money.

Thankfully, it probably doesn’t include private car hires for their guests, as there are a lot of people choosing to fly in the sky to the idyllic wedding.

While most people drive, or fly commercially across state, Bezos’s pals will be jetting off from all over the world in their own privately owned planes, which have now been calculated to emit the same amount of carbon dioxide emissions as 27,300 cars produce daily.

According to the United States Environmental Protection Agency, a typical passenger vehicle emits about 4.6 metric tons (4600 kg) of CO2 per year, and if you do the working out, you’ll see just how much that comes to each day.

96 planes traveling one journey emit as much as 27,000 cars do a day (Getty Stock Image)

Now, if you’re bad at math, I’ll do it for you, so you can put your calculator away.

4600 kg divided by 365 days of a year is 12.6 kg daily emissions.

According to the Italian publication Affaritaliani, around 96 private jets are set to land at the city for the three-day event.

A 2024 study which looked into private aviation and its contributions to climate change reported that ‘private aviation contributed at least 15.6 Mt CO2 in direct emissions in 2023, or about 3.6 t (tonnes) CO2 per flight’.

So, if we take 3.6 tonnes of CO2 created by one flight and multiply it by the 96 planes expected to fly to Bezos’ wedding, you’d get 354 tonnes (or 345,000 kg).

If each car produces 12.6kg, and a plane produces 345,0000kg, all we need to do is divide the planes’ CO2 by a car’s daily CO2, to find out how many cars it would take to produce the same level of CO2.

Does that make sense? It should.

345,000kg divided by 12.6kg is 27,300 cars.

When you think about it, that’s a hefty amount of CO2 for 3-day celebrations.

That’s not even taking into consideration the flight home…

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Unbelievable cost of Jeff Bezos’ and Lauren Sanchez’s wedding ‘revealed’ as activists protest against event

Reportedly the celebrity pair are set to wed in the coming days

The cost of Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez’s upcoming nuptials has been ‘revealed’ and, as you’d probably expect, the pair are seemingly going all out.

Bezos and Sanchez got engaged in May 2023 and are finally set to tie the knot this week, according to reports.

The duo are said to be marrying in Venice, Italy, on Saturday (June 27).

Many A-listers are expected to attend their wedding; from Katy Perry and Oprah Winfrey, to Mick Jagger and Ivanka Trump.

Last year it was reported that the pair were spending a staggering $600 million on their nuptials, but the Amazon founder later refuted these claims.

But new reports have suggested that Bezos and Sanchez could be forking out anywhere between $15 million to $20 million, per Mail Online.

Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez have been engaged to be married since May 2023 (Andreas Rentz/amfAR/Getty Images for amfAR)

Speaking on this large sum, Kunal Madan, the CEO and Founder of DressPreservation.com, and Zoe Buke, from Hitched.co.uk, said it’s likely that the famous pair will pay as much as much as $5 million for a private set from a high-profile performer like Beyoncé or Andrea Bocelli.

Then there’s transport. Sanchez and Bezos are rumored to have invited 200 guests to their wedding, all of whom will need help getting to their wedding.

Madan shared: “Private jet travel for clients, superyacht transfers, or helicopter landings, transport arrangements for A-listers can vary from $500,000 to $2 million, depending on security and logistics.”

Buke added that the couple’s high profile guests will probably be put up in luxury 5-star accommodation.

Then, of course, there’s Sanchez’s dress, the cost of which ‘can easily surpass $1 million’, say the experts.

Reportedly the couple are set to say their ‘I dos’ on June 27 (Marc Piasecki/WireImage)

“Couture wedding dresses alone run $500,000 to $1 million, not to speak of a one-off haute couture wedding dress by Dior, Valentino, or Elie Saab, and with several wardrobe changes,” said Madan. “Accessories, custom suits for Bezos, and styling personnel drive it up.”

Buke also pointed out that the couple’s fits are likely to be bespoke. According to The Telegraph, Dolce & Gabbana is the favorite fashion house for Sanchez’s dress, while Oscar de la Renta, Vera Wang, and Givenchy may also be in the running.

Other things noted in the round-up of costs include floristry and decor, photography, catering, wedding favors, and a wedding planner.

Reportedly, they are sourcing some 80 percent of their wedding provisions from Venetian vendors as a way to share their appreciation for the city, says PA.

Bezos’ Venetian wedding has sparked protests in the city (ANDREA PATTARO/AFP via Getty Images)

While the celebrity couple and their guests will be excited about the pending wedding, not everyone is pleased.

The lavish affair has attracted the attention of protesters, who on Thursday (June 19) hung a banner on St Mark’s bell tower with Bezos’s name crossed out.

They cite the risk of disruptions in a city so overrun with mass tourism that officials are for a second year requiring day-trippers to pay a tax to enter on key summer days.

Alice Bazzoli, an activist with No Space for Bezos, said to Sky News: “[Bezos] is basically going to treat the whole city as a private ballroom, as a private event area, as if the citizens are not there.”

Federica Toninelli, another activist associated with No Space for Bezos, added: “This is not what Venice needs. This is not what a city that is already suffering from overtourism needs.”