‘7 Years Has Gone So Quick’

Serena Williams and Alexis Ohanian are celebrating seven years of marriage!

On Saturday, Nov. 16, the retired tennis star, 43, and the Reddit co-founder, 41, every shared heartfelt social media posts to mark their newest marriage ceremony anniversary.

Williams’ Instagram submit featured images of her household’s costume get together from a number of days prior. Ohanian and their 7-year-old daughter Olympia had been dressed as Roman gladiators, whereas Williams and 15-month-old daughter Adira sported colourful seems. One other photograph confirmed the tech government kissing Adira on the top as he held her, and yet one more captured the household of 4 posing along with large smiles.

“7 years has gone so quick… Completely satisfied anniversary @alexisohanian. Thanks for being one of the best dad to our women @olympiaohanian and @adiraohanian,” Williams wrote. “Thanks for additionally making common November day a fancy dress get together and making it particular. ❤️❣️.”

Celebrating Williams’ position as a mother, Ohanian commented on her submit: “❤️ Thanks for blessing me with the 2 finest people we ever met.”

In his personal Instagram submit, Ohanian mirrored on the couple’s 2017 New Orleans nuptials.

“7 years in the past in the present day, we acquired married right here,” he wrote. “Now we get to carry these two for beignets. Completely satisfied Anniversary 🎉.”

“You are a tremendous mama. I am very fortunate to have met you @serenawilliams @olympiaohanian @adiraohanian,” he added, alongside a snapshot of the members of the family all collectively, seemingly hanging in New Orleans.

The couple — who first met in Might 2015 after they had been seated subsequent to one another at an occasion forward of the Italian Open — tied the knot in 2017 at New Orleans’ Modern Arts Heart in entrance of a slew of celeb friends together with Beyoncé, Kim Kardashian, Eva Longoria and fellow tennis star Caroline Wozniacki.

Williams and Ohanian have been candid about their romance since then, together with sharing how they hold their relationship recent as they dad or mum their two daughters and work collectively on quite a few enterprise ventures.

Again in 2021, Williams opened up about her relationship with the enterprise capitalist, admitting in an interview on The Query Sport that “marriage will not be bliss, however it may be when you work at it.”

The 23-time Grand Slam winner additionally revealed that motherhood was all the time a objective for her, saying, “I all the time knew I needed children. I by no means knew when however I all the time knew I needed children sooner or later.”

“I realized that love is a tremendous feeling. And in case you have a chance to really feel it, then it is a particular factor,” she added.

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Earlier this yr, the couple had a hilarious viral second as they had been strolling alongside the purple carpet on the opening ceremony for the 2024 Paris Olympics. In a number of movies and images, Ohanian may very well be seen standing behind his spouse and older daughter, carrying an umbrella to guard them from the pouring rain.

A commentator for Eurosport deemed Ohanian the tennis star’s “umbrella holder,” not realizing he was Williams’ husband.

“[Serena] seems completely unbelievable. She’s acquired somebody simply behind us holding an umbrella,” the commentator mentioned. “These are the degrees you aspire to. To have an precise umbrella holder behind you.”

Ohanian instantly acquired in on the joke, sharing a submit from X that learn: “TV commentator: ‘Serena Williams even has her personal private umbrella holder’. FYI… the ‘umbrella holder’ ’is Alexis Ohanian, her husband. He’s one of many founders of Reddit. 💀.”

In his personal Instagram submit with a photograph of the viral second, the tech founder joked: “I’m additionally Olympia’s private umbrella holder.”