{"id":467891,"date":"2025-12-24T01:54:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T01:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/467891\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T01:54:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T01:54:10","slug":"tennis-icon-venus-williams-weds-actor-model-partner-in-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/467891\/","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":3,"featured_media":467892,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[18046,13140,10756,193,12817,723,24252,2219,212732,212736,212733,62,212735,1464,212734,67,132,68,212731,2612],"class_list":{"0":"post-467891","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-actor","9":"tag-comment","10":"tag-couple","11":"tag-detail","12":"tag-email","13":"tag-florida","14":"tag-instagram-post","15":"tag-italy","16":"tag-model-partner","17":"tag-preti","18":"tag-single-match","19":"tag-sports","20":"tag-sweet-day","21":"tag-tennis","22":"tag-tennis-icon-venus-williams","23":"tag-united-states","24":"tag-unitedstates","25":"tag-us","26":"tag-vogue-post","27":"tag-williams"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115772054838311604","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=467891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/467892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}