The Tamesis
It was a stressful time for Venus – just 10 days later she was diagnosed with adenomyoma. “I was very depressed,” she recalls of that period, during which she consulted multiple doctors but could not find a definitive path to treatment. “I just felt overwhelmed.” She told Andrea about her situation, and Andrea quickly took over, offering to connect her with a doctor he knew in Italy. “It’s still early in our relationship, but we’ve been through a lot and he has my back,” she said. Eventually, she traveled to Italy for surgery. “Thankfully, I froze my eggs a while ago,” Venus said. “Andrea and I had the surgery a month after we met. It’s crazy, but that’s how we met.”
Six months later, they got engaged on January 31, 2025, in Tuscany. “Andrea and I like to take short trips, and we went to a nice place with a hot spring,” she recalls. After a long day of floating in the saltwater pool and getting a couples massage, they were having dinner on the patio when Andrea suggested they wish on a star. “He asked, ‘Do you want to hear my wishes?'” Venus recalled. “I said, ‘Yeah, that’s great!’ When I turned around, he saw the ring was in his pocket. He said, ‘Do you want to marry me?’ “I was jumping up and down and laughing because that’s what I do when I win big games. I was like, Yeah, yeah, yeah!”
Their first wedding took place on September 18 in Ischia, Italy. “We dreamed of having our wedding in Italy,” Venus explains. “But we didn’t have enough time to go through the formalities – since I’m a foreigner, it could take about eight months. So we decided to have a second wedding.”
The second wedding, held in Palm Beach, focused more on Venus’ Florida roots. Planned by Jennifer Zabinski of JZ Events, who also organized her sister Serena’s 2017 wedding, this week’s events began a full six days before the ceremony, with a packed schedule and often windy weather. “They always say weddings go too fast, and they do,” Venus said. “We started on Monday. Serena gave us a beautiful yacht as a gift and she arranged all the food and everything. We had 10 to 12 of our closest family and friends on the boat in town and we sang, danced, chatted and enjoyed each other.”
