On Friday, Sanchez and the Amazon founder tied the knot in an intimate ceremony on the island of San Giorgio Maggiore in Venice, Italy. Simply hours after the nuptials — which featured a handful of A-list celebrities in attendance — Vogue debuted Sanchez’s June digital cowl, with the newlywed displaying off her gorgeous, corseted, lace Dolce & Gabbana robe in photographs shot throughout her ultimate gown becoming in Milan.

Within the interview, Sanchez, 55, shared particulars concerning the inventive course of behind her wedding ceremony gown, revealing that it was impressed by Sophia Loren’s high-necked white robe from the 1958’s Houseboat, during which the actress’ character, Cinzia Zaccardi, marries Tom Winters, performed by Cary Grant. (See photographs of Loren carrying the robe within the photographs, beneath.)

“I researched footage of brides within the Fifties. I wished to replicate again, and I noticed Sophia Loren and her fingers have been like this,” she stated, imitating a prayer place, “and she or he was in excessive lace, as much as the neck, and I stated, ‘That is it. That is the gown.’”

Like the robe Loren wore in Houseboat, Sanchez’s robe options priest buttons — alongside a laced high-neck and corsetted bodice — however Sanchez’s buttons not solely reached her waist, however continued into the prepare. Vogue stated the robe featured “180 hand-finished, silk chiffon-covered buttons.”

“The entire thing was like a dream,” Sanchez stated.

The leisure journalist — who famously wore a lacy bustier beneath a blazer at President Trump’s inauguration in January — stated her Dolce & Gabbana wedding ceremony gown — with its excessive neck — is essentially the most covered-up formal robe she’s worn.

“It’s a departure from what individuals anticipate,” Sanchez informed Vogue, “from what I anticipate—but it surely’s very a lot me.”

She additionally opened up concerning the “traditions” she and Bezos determined to maintain for his or her nuptials. Whereas there weren’t many, Sanchez stated she had one thing borrowed and blue.

She selected Dolce & Gabbana earrings for her one thing borrowed, whereas her one thing blue is a particular memento from her Blue Origin house flight in April, during which she was one of many members of the all-female crew on her now-husband’s firm’s New Shepard rocket.

“It is one thing from my house flight,” she stated, including that she introduced alongside an merchandise for the 11-minute journey to carry again to Bezos “as a result of it was actually one of the profound experiences I’ve ever had in my life. Seeing Earth from house, I got here down and I couldn’t describe it. It was the best expertise I’ve ever had. Jeff stated, ‘It is gonna change you greater than you assume,’ and it utterly has, visually, spiritually.”

Sanchez stated the expertise even influenced her wedding ceremony look.

“It went from ‘I desire a easy, attractive fashionable gown’ to ‘I need one thing that evokes a second,’ and the place I’m proper now. I’m a distinct individual than I used to be 5 years in the past,” she defined.

“I went into lots of remedy and it is modified me in a bunch of the way. But it surely’s actually Jeff,” she added. “Jeff hasn’t modified me. Jeff has revealed me. I really feel secure. I really feel seen. He lets me be me. Like I stated about Sophia Loren being unapologetically free, he lets me be unapologetically free.”

Following Friday’s nuptials, Sanchez formally modified her Instagram username to @laurensanchezbezos and eliminated all of her posts, and shared two from the marriage, together with pictures of her in her gorgeous Dolce & Gabbana robe.

“Not only a robe, a bit of poetry. Thanks @dolcegabbana for the magic you made,” she captioned the picture.

Sanchez and Bezos’ wedding ceremony marked their second time down the aisle for every of them, with the pair having youngsters from their previous relationships.

Sanchez is mother to son Nikko, 24, whom she shares along with her ex Tony Gonzalez, together with son Evan, 19, and daughter Ella, 17, from her marriage to Patrick Whitesell. Bezos, in the meantime, welcomed 4 youngsters throughout his marriage to Mackenzie Scott.