After the ceremony in Ischia, the tennis champion and the Italian actor celebrated their wedding in the United States. Among the most symbolic moments, Serena’s gift and Venus’s personal story on health
Not just one wedding, but two distinct chapters of the same story. After the first yes pronounced in Italy, Venus Williams and Andrea Preti they chose to celebrate their wedding also in United Statestransforming Palm Beach in the heart of a week of celebrations designed to unite different worlds, families and roots. A large celebration, with attention to detail, which brought out not only the more mundane side of the event, but also deeply personal aspects of the champion’s life, narrated naturally by herself.
A meeting born by chance and became certainty
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Their story originated in 2024, during the Milan Fashion Weekin an unexpected context for both. “Neither of us were supposed to be there,” Venus recalled, explaining how a last-minute decision changed the course of things. From that meeting a quick but solid relationship was born, built without hesitation. After months of dating, the marriage proposal arrived on January 31, 2025in Tuscany. An intimate moment that Venus described with spontaneous enthusiasm, saying that she understood “immediately” that Andrea would become her husband.
From the Italian yes to the American celebration
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The first wedding took place in Ischiabut for bureaucratic reasons the couple chose to repeat the ceremony in the United States, giving life to a week of events in Venus’ residence in Palm Beach. The organization was entrusted to Jennifer Zabinskiformer wedding planner for her sister Serena Williamswho was a constant presence on this occasion too. Serena herself signed one of the most commented gestures: gave the newlyweds a yachtpersonally organizing a day at sea with family and closest friends. “We sang, we danced, we chatted, we enjoyed our time together,” Venus said.
Health, motherhood and a conscious choice
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In the exclusive story of the wedding a VogueVenus also decided to share a delicate passage in her life. Shortly after her relationship with Preti began, she was diagnosed an adenomyosiswhich led to her having surgery. In that context, the tennis player explained: “Fortunately I had frozen my eggs some time ago”. A detail told with the desire to normalize a choice often lived in silence, inserting it into the path of a relationship which, from the beginning, has gone through complex moments.
Two families, one party
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Palm Beach has become the meeting point for relatives and friends arriving fromItaly and the United States. Andrea Preti underlined the importance of having his closest loved ones close by, while Venus wanted to live every moment without giving up the experience of the party: “I didn’t want to spend the whole day in the make-up chair”. The civil ceremony, celebrated at dawn in the courthouse, was defined by Venus as “calm, sacred, emotional”. The official one, however, combined music, hand-written votes and a long night of celebrations.
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