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.”

The world’s third-richest man married the self-declared "luckiest woman on the planet" in a spectacular, star-studded Italian affair.

The Amazon founder and the Emmy-winning journalist tied the knot in a black-tie ceremony held on the island of San Giorgio Maggiore in Venice, Italy, on June 27