--- title: Serena Williams Has Royal Wedding Advice for Meghan Markle description: Serena Williams gave the best wedding advice for her good friend Meghan Markle ahead of her wedding to Prince Harry. canonical: https://time.com/5259621/serena-williams-wedding-advice-meghan-markle/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-04-30T15:18:53.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:52:29.956Z og:title: Serena Williams Has Royal Wedding Advice for Meghan Markle og:description: "I just think it's so important to enjoy the moment" og:url: https://time.com/5259621/serena-williams-wedding-advice-meghan-markle/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9b8db8864c94cf4f/69892f14db2987ef1225f877/serena-williams-wedding-advice-meghan-markle.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2000 og:image:height: 1125 og:image:alt: Serena Williams and Alexis Ohanian attend premiere HBO og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Serena Williams Has Royal Wedding Advice for Meghan Markle twitter:description: "I just think it's so important to enjoy the moment" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9b8db8864c94cf4f/69892f14db2987ef1225f877/serena-williams-wedding-advice-meghan-markle.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # The Key Wedding Advice Serena Williams Has for Meghan Markle on Her Wedding Day > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically.  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Apr 30, 2018 3:18 PM UTC  TIME WARNER CENTER, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES - 2018/04/25: Serena Williams and Alexis Ohanian attend premiere HBO documentary Being Serena at Time Warner Center. (Photo by Lev Radin/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images) TIME WARNER CENTER, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES - 2018/04/25: Serena Williams and Alexis Ohanian attend premiere HBO documentary Being Serena at Time Warner Center. (Photo by Lev Radin/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images) Pacific Press—LightRocket via Getty Images  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Apr 30, 2018 3:18 PM UTC With [Meghan Markle](http://time.com/4694568/meghan-markle-period-stigma/) and Prince Harry’s [royal wedding](http://time.com/5039393/royal-wedding-2018-details/) just weeks to go, Markle’s good friend [Serena Williams](http://time.com/4925648/serena-williams-tennis/) shared some vital advice for the happy couple on their big day. In an interview with [_Good Morning America_](http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Culture/video/serena-williams-shares-wedding-advice-friend-meghan-markle-54744851), Williams revealed what she learned from tying the knot last fall with her husband, Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian. “I just think it’s so important to enjoy the moment,” Williams said. “And eat the cake—I didn’t get to eat mine at the wedding. We were just having so much fun!” Williams also shared good wishes for the royal wedding and soon-to-be princess Markle. “I’m obviously super happy for her,” Williams said. “She’s such a great girl and she is incredibly nice and I couldn’t be happier for her.” When it came to talking about whether or not she’ll be heading across the pond for the nuptials next month, however, Williams stayed mum. “I don’t know, I think it’s during one of the tournaments, I’ll see if I can make it,” she said. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5259621/serena-williams-wedding-advice-meghan-markle/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5259621/serena-williams-wedding-advice-meghan-markle/"},"headline":"The Key Wedding Advice Serena Williams Has for Meghan Markle on Her Wedding Day","datePublished":"2018-04-30T15:18:53.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:52:29.956Z","description":"\"I just think it's so important to enjoy the moment\"","url":"https://time.com/5259621/serena-williams-wedding-advice-meghan-markle/","keywords":["Newsfeed","royal wedding"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9b8db8864c94cf4f/69892f14db2987ef1225f877/serena-williams-wedding-advice-meghan-markle.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Cady Lang","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/cady-lang/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9b8db8864c94cf4f/69892f14db2987ef1225f877/serena-williams-wedding-advice-meghan-markle.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Serena Williams and Alexis Ohanian attend premiere HBO","caption":"Serena Williams and Alexis Ohanian attend premiere HBO","creditText":"Pacific Press—LightRocket via Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5259621/serena-williams-wedding-advice-meghan-markle/","name":"The Key Wedding Advice Serena Williams Has for Meghan Markle on Her Wedding Day"}}]}] ```