{"id":94325,"date":"2025-12-24T00:15:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T00:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/94325\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T00:15:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T00:15:07","slug":"tennis-icon-venus-williams-weds-actor-model-partner-in-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/94325\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennis icon Venus Williams weds actor, model partner in Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tennis legend Venus Williams wed Danish model and actor Andrea Preti over the weekend in Florida, the new bride announced in a shared post. <\/p>\n<p>An <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DSnHdiVFedh\/?img_index=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram post from Vogue Magazine\u2019s<\/a> Weddings section announced the nuptials, with the message garnering more than 30,000 likes as of Tuesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe all love each other so much,\u201d Williams, 45, said in the Vogue post. \u201cIt was just the happiest, most beautiful, sweetest day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The post was scant on details other than the event took place over five days in and around the couple\u2019s home in Palm Beach Gardens.<\/p>\n<p>An email for comment to representatives for Williams and Preti, 37, was not immediately returned.<\/p>\n<p>The couple met at 2024 Milan Fashion Week and began texting shortly after, <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vogue.com\/slideshow\/venus-williams-and-andrea-preti-wedding\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">according to Vogue<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The couple eventually became engaged on Jan. 31 in Tuscany, according to Vogue. That detail was confirmed in July during what was a historic month for Williams.<\/p>\n<p>The Compton native defeated 23-year-old Peyton Sterns 6-3, 6-4 in the first round action of the D.C. Open after a 16-month hiatus from singles matches.<\/p>\n<p>In victory, Williams became the second-oldest woman to win a tour-level singles match, trailing only fellow legend Martina Navratilova, who was 47 when she won in 2004.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes, my fiance is here, and he really encouraged me to keep playing,\u201d Williams told the Tennis Channel\u2019s Rennae Stubbs in a post-match interview. \u201cThere were so many times where I just wanted to coast and kind of chill. &#8230; He encouraged me to get through this, and it\u2019s wonderful [for him] to be here. He\u2019s never seen me play.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm6611635\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Preti has written, acted and directed<\/a> in a handful of films, primarily in Italy.<\/p>\n<p>The wedding was the second for the couple, who also held a ceremony in Italy in September.<\/p>\n<p> <script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tennis legend Venus Williams wed Danish model and actor Andrea Preti over the weekend in Florida, the new&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":94326,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[24904,44738,23829,2770,5588,28,30,29,24503,27117,50285,50289,50286,50288,50287,50284,29614],"class_list":["post-94325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-actor","tag-comment","tag-couple","tag-detail","tag-email","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-instagram-post","tag-italy","tag-model-partner","tag-preti","tag-single-match","tag-sweet-day","tag-tennis-icon-venus-williams","tag-vogue-post","tag-williams"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94325\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}