{"id":370547,"date":"2025-12-25T07:59:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T07:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/370547\/"},"modified":"2025-12-25T07:59:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T07:59:11","slug":"venus-williams-wedding-tennis-legend-wore-12-dresses-for-week-long-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/370547\/","title":{"rendered":"Venus Williams\u2019 wedding: Tennis legend wore 12 dresses for week-long party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">On the day of their home wedding celebration, Williams wore \u201cthe most incredible\u201d Georges Hobieka gown, teamed with jewellery from Messika.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cI got the most amazing nails by Gina Edwards, and I wore the most incredible dress by Georges Hobeika,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cI wanted to wear a dress that I thought Andrea would love and that was magical and perfect for a Florida wedding.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">Preti said: \u201cWhen I saw Venus, she was beautiful, like a goddess. I was crying and happy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">Williams had been unable to try on her \u201cmagical and perfect\u201d gown before the wedding but a sample wasn\u2019t available.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cI was in Paris for a day, and I said, \u2018I have to go try this dress\u2019. It was during Fashion Week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cIt was crazy but somehow we made it work.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cI wanted my sister [Isha] to come up, and when she did, she started crying. It was just perfect. The way it sparkles, the transparency \u2013 it reminds me of the ocean and sea.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">Williams also donned bridal looks from Natali + Meital, Veni Infantino and Eve of Milady, and she had a special outfit for a sports day for their guests, which featured volleyball, tennis, dodgeball, wheelbarrow races and pickleball.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">She said: \u201cI didn\u2019t want to be the team captain \u2013 I just wanted to be on the team with my husband.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cI was mostly focused on just looking cute. When I was going through the obstacle course, I kept thinking about how I didn\u2019t want to break the strap on my dress.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">And Williams admitted her stylist Kesha McLeod was taken aback when she announced her idea to have multiple bridal looks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cI like to have a lot of fun,\u201d she said. \u201cI couldn\u2019t pick one dress, and then Kesha came on board.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vUWuwjCGukMuO\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cShe didn\u2019t realise I was so crazy.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On the day of their home wedding celebration, Williams wore \u201cthe most incredible\u201d Georges Hobieka gown, teamed with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":370548,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[55611,64,63,112962,167694,75408,580,10675,19828,85,747,12820,22676,200561,819,39416],"class_list":["post-370547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-55611","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-celebrations","tag-dozen","tag-dresses","tag-for","tag-legend","tag-party","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-venus","tag-wedding","tag-weeklong","tag-williams","tag-wore"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/370548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}