Serena and Alexis

Serena Williams Gave Her Wedding Guests Tennis Trophies of Their Own

Williams and Alexis Ohanian were married at a New Orleans ceremony with a Beauty and the Beast theme.
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Serena Williams and Alexis Ohanian got married on Thursday at the Contemporary Art Center in New Orleans, in what was reportedly a Beauty and the Beast-themed wedding that drew a guest list of bold-faced names. Among them: Kim Kardashian, Beyoncé, Tina Knowles, Kelly Rowland, La La Anthony, Colton Haynes, tennis pro Caroline Wozniacki, and Anna Wintour.

Per the Daily Mail, the couple overlooked no detail. Each table at the reception was named after one of Williams’s 12 Grand Slam titles, and guests took home replicas of Williams’s trophies as party favors. Members of the band New Edition reportedly played a five-song set during the reception.

This wedding of great fanfare follows a banner year for Reddit co-founder Ohanian and his bride. On September 1, they welcomed a baby girl named Alexis Olympia Ohanian Jr., who was born less than a year after the couple announced their engagement (on Reddit) late last December.

In her August cover story with Vanity Fair, Williams spoke about the shock she felt when she first realized she was pregnant—and had to play the Australian Open in January.

“Oh my God, this can’t be—I’ve got to play a tournament,” she recounted saying to a friend then. “How am I going to play the Australian Open? I had planned on winning Wimbledon this year.”

Williams won the Australian Open while two months pregnant, as the world later found out. And, as she told V.F., she’ll be back on the court come January 2018—perhaps earning more titles with which to decorate tables at a future wedding anniversary celebration.

“I don’t think my story is over yet,” she said.