Tennis legend Venus Williams and her spouse, model Andrea Preti, have said “I do” a second time during a lavish five-day wedding at their sprawling Florida home.
Williams, 45, and Preti, 38, first tied the knot in September in Italy. At the time, they didn’t have enough time to file paperwork, so they opted for another wedding, as reported by Vogue.
“We had this dream to do our wedding in Italy, but we didn’t have enough time to do the paperwork—because I’m a foreigner, it can take about eight months. So we decided to have a second wedding,” Williams told the outlet.
The wedding festivities are reported to have taken place at their luxe $10 million home in Jupiter, FL, which is located just miles away from Palm Beach.
“They always say weddings go so fast, and they do. We started on Monday. Serena gave us this gift of a beautiful yacht, and she arranged all the food, everything. We had 10 to 12 of our closest family and friends who were in town on the boat, and we were singing, dancing, gossiping, and just enjoying each other,” Venus told the outlet.
Each of the five days included a pool party hosted at their secluded Mediterranean mansion, with the star athlete noting that she loves hosting and that they were “eager” to welcome people to their home.
Williams revealed that it was extra special because 25 of their closest friends and family had traveled from Italy for the bash.
The second day of the festivities saw the athlete hosting a boudoir-themed bridal shower in the patio of their property.
During her dream bridal shower, Williams and her friends munched on Asian food before partaking in a lip-synch battle.
The next day, they hosted another pool party before spending the evening in Miami.
On the following day, Williams honored her sports skills by hosting volleyball, tennis, dodgeball, wheelbarrow races, and pickleball games.
On Friday, the couple jumped out of bed at 4 a.m. and headed to the courthouse, so they could have the space to themselves.
“I can’t describe how beautiful, calm, sacred, exciting, and exalting it was. It was just a dream,” she told the outlet.
The day of their second wedding, Williams slept in, waking up at 8:30 a.m. to get her nails done and begin getting her glam on.
When the ceremony began, Petri walked out to the song “I’ll Be There” by the Jackson 5, while Williams strutted out to “Ovunque Sarai” by Irama.
The couple penned their own vows and had the “best time.”
Following dinner and dancing, the couple got everyone on a bus and headed to an after-party, which went until they “kicked everyone out” at 2 a.m.
“It was just the happiest, most beautiful, sweetest day,” Williams said.
The couple first met during a 2024 Milan fashion show, which Petri nearly skipped.
“I was in Lake Como on a sisters’ trip when I got an invite at the last minute and decided to go on a whim, and Andrea was tired. Neither of us was planning on being there. I just knew I was going to marry him. People always say they just know, and I just knew,” she told Vogue.
The couple got engaged on Jan. 31, 2025.
It comes as no surprise that Williams decided to host the bash at the sprawling home, which she snapped up in 2019. It comes complete with its own beach and private cottage.
The property boasts 25 rooms and spans 10,000 square feet.
Williams previously held the keys to a Palm Beach home that she shared with her sister Serena.
They purchased an acre of land in BallenIsles Country Club in Palm Beach Gardens, FL, with both water and golf course views. They paid $525,000 in 1998. They lived together in the private and secure mansion they built on the parcel.
The triple-gated estate offers 8,000 square feet of living space, with two spacious primary suites with private offices. Luxe amenities include four guest suites and an outdoor living area with a pool and spa, a cabana, and a kitchen.
The sisters listed the sweet spread for $2,695,000 in 2018. It was sold in early 2019 for $2.3 million.
