{"id":249712,"date":"2025-12-24T19:45:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T19:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/249712\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T19:45:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T19:45:17","slug":"venus-williams-marries-andrea-preti-on-happiest-most-beautiful-sweetest-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/249712\/","title":{"rendered":"Venus Williams marries Andrea Preti on \u2018happiest, most beautiful, sweetest day\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US tennis star <strong>Venus Williams<\/strong> has married actor <strong>Andrea Preti<\/strong> in a second wedding held across five days in Palm Beach, <strong>Florida<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>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<p>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<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DSoRvkRjYAJ\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\" style=\" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:658px; min-width:326px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);\"><\/blockquote>\n<p>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<p>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<p>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<p>\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<p>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<p>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<p>On Friday the couple had their courthouse wedding and Williams wore a dress by Morilee New York.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DSnHdiVFedh\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\" style=\" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:658px; min-width:326px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);\"><\/blockquote>\n<p>\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<p>Reflecting on the day, she added: \u201cIt was just the happiest, most beautiful, sweetest day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Preti is an actor and producer who was born in Denmark and spent most of his childhood there before moving to Italy.<\/p>\n<p>The couple shared photos of their wedding to Instagram, with Venus wearing a variety of white dresses across the five-day celebration.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US tennis star Venus Williams has married actor Andrea Preti in a second wedding held across five days&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":249713,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[18,19,17,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-249712","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115776266183379022","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}