Lauren Sánchez and Jeff Bezos waved goodbye as they left Venice on June 29 after days of wedding celebrations. The Amazon founder and the Emmy award-winning journalist tied the knot on the island of San Giorgio Maggiore in Italy on June 27.

“The issue that is now coming to light, symbolized by Jeff Bezos’ marriage, speaks to us about the real, everyday problems linked to mass tourism and to a city that is completely imagined, conceived and increasingly built to be a backdrop,” she said, “when in reality, it is not—it is a place where people actually live.”