On Wednesday, other activists launched a float down the Grand Canal featuring a mannequin of Bezos clinging onto an Amazon box, his fists full of fake dollars. The British publicity firm that announced the stunt said it wasn’t a protest of the wedding “but against unchecked wealth, media control, and the growing privatisation of public spaces.”

Jeff Bezos has arrived in Venice, Italy, ahead his their three-day wedding to Lauren Sánchez. The Amazon founder flew from his yacht off the shore of Croatia to Venice on Wednesday, June 25.

Amazon and Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos and his fiancée Lauren Sanchez, a journalist, author and helicopter pilot, have arrived in Venice, Italy, for their upcoming nuptials. The couple were photographed arriving at a Venice hotel on Wednesday. Bezos and Sanchez are expected to tie the knot this week.