The fabled city’s residents — some of them, at least — are in an uproar over the wedding of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and his partner, Lauren Sanchez, a former TV reporter. A prenuptial “foam party” on Bezos’s $500 million yacht didn’t help dispel the disdain of grass-roots campaigners who loathe Silicon Valley billionaires and their impact on both the environment and mom-and-pop businesses.

The wedding, hosted in Venice, Italy, reportedly cost millions of dollars as residents protest the upcoming luxury event.