The bride is corseted and cosseted in her high-necked, hand-appliquéd Italian lace wedding dress on the grounds of an 18th-century brick villa outside of Milan. “I’m gonna cry!” says the soon-to-be Lauren Sánchez Bezos. “I’m gonna be a mess on the day, but the best kind of mess.”

Vogue is under fire from readers and critics following the release of its June 2025 digital cover, featuring Lauren Sánchez Bezos—newly married to Amazon founder Jeff Bezos—posing in her custom Dolce & Gabbana wedding gown. The cover, revealed on Instagram as the couple’s opulent wedding wrapped up in Venice, Italy, quickly ignited public outrage.

The bride resisted because “she wanted to give him this surprise at all costs,” Laura Tortora, an editor at ‘Vogue Italia,’ tells PEOPLE