After months of speculation and anticipation, Lauren Sanchez’s wedding gown has been revealed, with Dolce & Gabbana confirmed as the fashion house behind the elegant, high-necked design. Sánchez married Amazon founder Jeff Bezos on the island of San Giorgio Maggiore in Venice, Italy, on Friday, June 27, 2025.
Just hours after the ceremony, Sánchez shared her first wedding photo on Instagram, the account name and bio of which quickly changed to “Lauren Sánchez Bezos.” About half an hour after her first post, Sánchez shared a second post gushing over her wedding dress.
“Not just a gown, a piece of poetry. Thank you @dolcegabbana for the magic you made,” Sánchez wrote.
The details surrounding the Bezos-Sanchez wedding extravaganza in Italy have been closely guarded and, in keeping with tradition, this secrecy of course extended to the bridal dress. But the sartorial embargo could not keep a lid on early rumours that her friends the Italian designers Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana of Dolce & Gabbana were the designers behind Sanchez’s wedding gown.
A year and a half in the making, here’s everything that you need to know about Lauren Sanchez’s Dolce & Gabbana wedding gown that she wore to marry Jeff Bezos.
The dress
The bride opted for a Dolce & Gabbana design, which featured a high neck, long lace sleeves, and 180 silk chiffon-covered priest buttons straight down the centre of the dress. The gown also featured a snatched corset, a fluted mermaid silhouette, hand-appliquéd Italian lace, and a sweeping tulle-and-lace veil.
The entire bridal look took over 900 hours to make.
Sanchez told Vogue in an exclusive interview that the original concept for the dress came about over dinner with Dolce in New York. “It went from ‘I want a simple, sexy modern dress’ to ‘I want something that evokes a moment,’” she recalled 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.”
Overall, Sanchez spent a year and a half designing her dress with the Italian design duo, with the intention of showing less skin.
It was inspired by Sophia Loren
Instead of pushing boundaries with a modern silhouette, Sanchez wanted timeless glamour. So, she turned to the past. Of her inspiration for the look, she told Vogue: “I researched pictures of brides in the 1950s. I wanted to reflect back, and I saw Sophia Loren and her hands were [in a prayer position] and she was in high lace, up to the neck, and I said, ‘That’s it. That’s the dress.’”
The traditional high-necked lace wedding dress that Sanchez was so inspired by was a still of Sophia Loren wearing a traditional wedding dress to marry Cary Grant in the 1958 film Houseboat.
“I went into a lot of therapy, and it’s changed me in a bunch of ways. But it’s really Jeff,” she continued. “Jeff hasn’t changed me. Jeff has revealed me. I feel safe. I feel seen. He lets me be me. Like I said about Sophia Loren being unapologetically free, he lets me be unapologetically free.”
The bling
While she didn’t wear the 20-carat, $2.5 million pink diamond ring that Bezos proposed with on the big day, the bride did wear Dolce & Gabbana Alta Gioielleria Miracolo earrings — her “something borrowed” — described by Vogue as “four diamonds cut from a single stone and inlaid in white gold.”
“We don’t have a lot of traditions that we’re keeping,” she explained, sharing how the earrings would be her something borrowed. “I love traditions, but for a 55-year-old woman, it’s a little different.”
The other dresses
Of course, the couple’s multi-day celebrations included more than just Lauren’s stunning Loren-inspired gown. According to Vogue, she had also set aside a sweetheart neck gown inspired by the Rita Hayworth film Gilda for the wedding dinner, as well as an Oscar de la Renta cocktail dress adorned with 600 yards of hand-sewn chain and 175,000 crystals for the after-party.
Throughout the celebrations she also wore one-shoulder vintage 2003 Alexander McQueen dress and corseted Schiaparelli couture, lavishly embroidered with an extremely exaggerated, corseted waist for the wedding’s not one, but two welcome parties. She also sported a classic white Dior skirt suit with an Hermès silk scarf tied on her head in an homage to Audrey Hepburn.
However, Sanchez knows that the most talked-about look would be her wedding dress. After all, as she put it, “It is a departure from what people expect.”
“But it’s very much me,” Sanchez, who tends to wear gowns with plunging necklines on the red carpet, added. “It’s so elegant, it’s timeless.”
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