No, Lauren Sánchez didn’t find her wedding dress on Amazon.
Instead, Jeff Bezos’ bride relied on luxury fashion house Dolce & Gabbana to fit her in a custom gown featuring a high neckline, a snatched corset and hand-appliquéd lace for their June 27 nuptials in Venice, Italy.
“It went from ‘I want a simple, sexy modern dress’ to ‘I want something that evokes a moment,'” she told Vogue of her wedding dress’ design in an interview published shortly after the ceremony, “and where I am right now. I am a different person than I was five years ago.”
The journalist—who was previously married to talent agent Patrick Whitesell from 2005 to 2019—continued, “I went into a lot of therapy and it’s changed me in a bunch of ways. But it’s really Jeff.”
Explaining how the billionaire has “revealed” her most confident self, Lauren said of her current mindset, “I feel safe. I feel seen. He lets me be me.”
And that’s why she ultimately went for a dress based on the high-necked look Sophia Loren wore to marry Cary Grant in 1958’s Houseboat. As she explained of Jeff, “Like I said about Sophia Loren being unapologetically free, he lets me be unapologetically free.”
