Inside Venus Williams and Andrea Preti’s Five-Day Wedding at Home in Palm Beach

It was an intense time for Venus—just 10 days later, she was diagnosed with adenomyoma. “I was so down,” she remembers of this period, during which she spoke to multiple doctors but could not find a conclusive path for treatment. “I just felt so overwhelmed.” She filled Andrea in on her situation, and he quickly took charge, offering to connect her with a doctor he knew in Italy. “It was so early in our relationship, but we were going through a lot, and he supported me,” she says. Eventually, she traveled to Italy for surgery. “Thankfully, I froze my eggs a while ago,” Venus says. “I had surgery a month after Andrea and I met. It was crazy, but that’s how we met.”

Six months after that, they got engaged on January 31, 2025, in Tuscany. “Andrea and I love to take little trips, and we went to a wonderful place with thermal waters,” she remembers. After a day of floating in saltwater pools and couples massages, they were having dinner on the patio when Andrea suggested they wish on a star. “He asked, ‘Do you want to hear my wish?’” Venus recalls. “I said, ‘Yes, great!’ And when I turned around, he had the ring in his pocket. He said, ‘Do you want to marry me?’ And I couldn’t stop jumping up and down and laughing and smiling because that’s what I do when I win big matches. I was thinking to myself, Yes, yes, yes!”

Their first wedding was on September 18 in Ischia, Italy. “We had this dream to do our wedding in Italy,” Venus explains. “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.”

This second wedding, held in Palm Beach, focused more on Venus’s Florida roots. Planned by Jennifer Zabinski of JZ Events, who also organized her sister Serena’s 2017 wedding, the week of events started a full six days before the ceremony and featured a jam-packed itinerary—along with lots of windy weather. “They always say weddings go so fast, and they do,” Venus says. “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.”