Venus Williams said: \u201cThey always say weddings go so fast, and they do.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe started on Monday. Serena gave us this gift of a beautiful yacht, and she arranged all the food, everything. We had 10 to 12 of our closest family and friends who were in town on the boat, and we were singing, dancing, gossiping, and just enjoying each other.\u201d<\/p>\n
The rest of the week continued with more wedding celebrations \u2013 including a sports day that was filled with games of volleyball, tennis and dodgeball.<\/p>\n
Williams said: \u201cI didn\u2019t want to be the team captain \u2013 I just wanted to be on the team with my husband.\u201d<\/p>\n
Proceedings came to an end on the Friday morning as the pair married in a courthouse wedding in Palm Beach at 6.45am \u2013 a time chosen so the pair and their guests could have the area to themselves.<\/p>\n
Williams said: \u201cI can\u2019t believe how beautiful, calm, sacred, exciting, and exalting it was. It was just a dream.\u201d<\/p>\n
Preti added: \u201cFor me, the courthouse ceremony was very unique, emotional and deep. It was the second-best day of my life.\u201d<\/p>\n
The 37-year-old actor explained that the couple\u2019s Italian wedding was the best day of his life.<\/p>\n
Preti also revealed how he was touched when Williams arrived at the ceremony to the song Ovunque Sarai by Irama \u2013 which is of huge personal significance to him.<\/p>\n
He said: \u201cThe song is very special to me.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt reminds me of my grandma, who passed during Covid. When V and I were dating, I asked her to listen to this song and told her how it was important to me. I never expected she would use this song.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen it played, I started to cry like a little kid. My family couldn\u2019t understand why I was crying so much, but my mum, she knew. \u2018It\u2019s a song for Nonna\u2019, she told my father.\u201d<\/p>\n
Andrea added: \u201cWhen I saw Venus, she was beautiful, like a goddess. I was crying and happy. I know my grandmother was there, looking down at us.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Venus Williams said: \u201cThey always say weddings go so fast, and they do. \u201cWe started on Monday. Serena…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":198907,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[95,75544,192,9610,111,139,69,122494,213,5495,13971],"class_list":["post-198906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-and","tag-andrea","tag-are","tag-married","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-preti","tag-sports","tag-venus","tag-williams"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198906\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}