US tennis star Venus Williams has married actor Andrea Preti in a second wedding held across five days in Palm Beach, Florida.<\/p>\n
Williams, who has won seven grand slams and is the sister of tennis champion Serena, said she met her now husband at the Gucci show during Milan Fashion Week.<\/p>\n
She told Vogue magazine: \u201cAfter our dates in London, I just knew I was going to marry him. People always say they just know, and I just knew.\u201d<\/p>\n
The couple got engaged on January 31st, 2025, in Tuscany and their first wedding was on September 18 in Ischia, Italy, according to the publication.<\/p>\n
Williams said: \u201cWe had this dream to do our wedding in Italy. But we didn\u2019t have enough time to do the paperwork \u2013 because I\u2019m a foreigner, it can take about eight months. So we decided to have a second wedding.\u201d<\/p>\n
The couple tied the knot this past weekend, and started the celebrations the Monday prior when \u201c10 to 12 of our closest family and friends\u201d celebrated on a yacht, gifted to them by Serena.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe love welcoming people into our home every single day, and everyone was eager to have fun with us. It was the Italians and the Americans all together,\u201d Williams said.<\/p>\n
On Tuesday the bridal shower took place on the back patio of the couple\u2019s home, and Williams said her bridal party danced to Beyonce.<\/p>\n
On Wednesday their closest family and friends went to Miami for a dinner at the members\u2019 club Sopra, upstairs at the Forte dei Marmi restaurant, then, on Thursday, they held a sports day, with volleyball, tennis, dodgeball, wheelbarrow races, and pickleball.<\/p>\n
On Friday the couple had their courthouse wedding and Williams wore a dress by Morilee New York.<\/p>\n
\u201cI wanted to wear a dress that I thought Andrea would love and that was magical and perfect for a Florida wedding,\u201d Williams said.<\/p>\n
Reflecting on the day, she added: \u201cIt was just the happiest, most beautiful, sweetest day.\u201d<\/p>\n
Preti is an actor and producer who was born in Denmark and spent most of his childhood there before moving to Italy.<\/p>\n
The couple shared photos of their wedding to Instagram, with Venus wearing a variety of white dresses across the five-day celebration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US tennis star Venus Williams has married actor Andrea Preti in a second wedding held across five days…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":209045,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-209044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209044\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}