Tennis star Serena Williams announced her engagement to Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian on December 29, and for the past 10 days her fans have been clamoring for a closeup look at the ring.
On January 2, Williams joked with her five million Instagram followers by posting a photo of an engagement ring, with the diamond replaced by a taco. Her caption: “Sneak peek. It was a corn tortilla of course in case you were wondering.”
Four days later, she took her antics one step farther by posting a romantic photo of her and her fiancé on a cobblestone street in Rome — the city where the 33-year-old Ohanian proposed. Williams, who is obsessed with tacos, is shown wearing a pair of Nike sneakers and a taco on her left ring finger where her diamond ring should be. She captioned the photo, “Can’t resist a strong shoe game.”
The original, unedited version of the same shot appears on Reddit under the title “Engagement Shoe Game.” That photo, although taken from a distance, reveals a massive sparkler. Details of the shape of the stone, its carat weight and the setting style have yet to be released.
On December 29, the 35-year-old Williams posted to the “I Said Yes” subreddit a poem that described the details leading up to Ohanian’s fairy tale marriage proposal.
She wrote, “I came home / A little late / Someone had a bag packed for me / And a carriage awaited / Destination: Rome / To escort me to my very own “charming” / Back to where our stars first collided / And now it was full circle / At the same table we first met by chance / This time he made it not by chance / But by choice / Down on one knee / He said 4 words / And / I said yes.”
Along with the post was an adorable illustration of Williams and Ohanian, each rendered as an orange-eyed Snoo, the cartoon mascot of Reddit. The Ohanian Snoo is kneeling with a larger-than-life pink diamond in his hand. The Williams Snoo, dressed in a pink-and-white tennis outfit, seems to be levitating off the ground. The headline of the illustration reads: “Future Mrs. KnOthing,” a nod to Ohanian’s handle on Reddit.
Ohanian responded to the Reddit post by writing, “And you made me the happiest man on the planet.”
Williams added, “Edit: You’re also a really cute Snoo. As I was drawing this for you, I thought, “Our Snoos should go out on a date sometime.”
The power couple has been dating since October 2015, and E! News is reporting that the wedding is expected to take place in about a year.
Credits: Photos via Reddit.com; Instagram.com/serinawilliams.