Tennis player Venus Williams, winner of seven grand slam In singles, she formalized her marriage to Italian actor and former model Andrea Preti during a five-day ceremony in Floridaafter celebrating a symbolic wedding in Italy in September.
The new couple went to a Florida court last Friday to legalize their union and on Saturday they celebrated the wedding. with his closest family and friends in a residence owned by the tennis player in Palm Beach, according to Williams’ statements to the magazine Vogue.
The wedding ceremony was the culmination of five days of festivities including Yacht trips paid for by her sister Serena Williams dinners in high-end restaurants or a sporty afternoon playing volleyball, pickleball and obstacle courses.
Venus Williams, 45, explained to the aforementioned magazine that she ten custom dresses made for the occasionincluding one designed by Lebanese fashion designer Georges Hobeika.
Williams and Preti, 37, met during Milan Fashion Week in September 2024 and both had a crush, according to the athlete. After they met, he was diagnosed with adenomyosis, a disease of endometrial tissue that required surgery. According to the tennis player, Preti was a key figure in the most difficult times of the process.
The couple celebrated a first symbolic wedding in the Italian town of Ischia on September 18, because her dream was to get married in the Mediterranean country. “But we didn’t have enough time for the procedures; since I’m a foreigner, it can take about eight months. So we decided to have a second marriage,” Williams added. This new marriage, centered on the tennis player’s roots, made it possible to finally formalize their union.
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