The Amazon founder and his fiancée are sourcing their wedding provisions from local vendors, with Venice’s oldest pastry maker Rosa Salva and Murano glassblower Laguna B lending artisanal touches
They are sourcing some 80 per cent of their wedding provisions from Venetian vendors, according to people close to the couple, as a way to share their appreciation for the romantic lagoon city. The wedding will take place over three days in late June, with events for the some 200 invited guests kept private.
Two historic Venetian companies will add artisanal touches to the celebration: Rosa Salva, the city’s oldest pastry maker that has been crafting doughnut-shaped fishermen’s biscuits since 1876, and Laguna B, a design studio known for its distinctive handblown Murano glass prized by fashion and design clients.
Antonio Rosa Salva, the sixth generation in his family to run the pastry business, said the wedding order of a selection of surprises for goody bags was important recognition of his family’s long tradition of baking Venetian specialities dating back nearly 150 years.
They include the bussolà buttery biscuit that was long a fisherman’s staple, and small zaletti cookies, made from the Veneto region’s cornmeal, flavoured with raisins and lemon zest.
