Venice | If a bunch of irate Venetians have their way, the star-studded dream wedding that Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and his fiancee, Lauren Sanchez, are planning in the ancient city at the end of June could be a nightmare.

Representatives of various citizens’ groups gathered this week in a square near Rialto Bridge and vowed to organise a series of protests from June 26 to 28, when hundreds of guests are expected to descend on the lagoon city for the lavish nuptials of Bezos and Sanchez, a journalist.