RHOA Star Porsha Williams Marries Simon Guobadia

Porsha Williams and Simon Guobadia are officially married!

The Real Housewives of Atlanta star, 41, tied the knot with the businessman, 57, in a Nigerian-style ceremony on Friday.

The event was held at the Four Seasons in Atlanta in front of about 250 guests.

According to PEOPLE, the guest list included comedian Rickey Smiley, Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta’sKarlie Redd, Married to Medicine’sQuad Webb, Basketball Wives‘ Jennifer Williams, and musician T.I. and wife Tiny Harris. Fellow Housewives stars including Kim Zolciak-Biermann, Monyetta Shaw, Kandi Burruss, Drew Sidora and Cynthia Bailey were also invited.

They will have an American-style wedding on Saturday.

“I am ridiculously excited,” Porsha told PEOPLE ahead of the nuptials. “I am just so ready. I’m not even nervous. I mean, I know I’m marrying the love of my life, and it’s just going to solidify our relationship and our family bond. I’m calm and excited.”

Porsha also told the publication, who gets an exclusive look, that she will have a total of 7 wardrobe changes over the course of two days.

She wore three dresses at her Nigerian ceremony, a red, blue, and gold gown.

Guests were also asked to follow suit by wearing traditional or formal Nigerian-inspired attire in the colors of the day: purple and teal.

Traditional Benin singers and dancers performed, and they setting was designed to make the guests feel like they landed in Benin.

The couple also catered traditional Benin foods like snails, egusi, meat pies and okra stew from the local restaurant Little Lagos. 

To represent Porsha’s southern roots, they had fried lobster, steak and cornbread. As for the cake, they had a traditional Benin cake.

Porsha and Simon got engaged in May 2021, only after one month of dating.

When asked if the couple wanted to expand their family, Porsha said “I’ve always wanted to have four kids, so it’s a blessing that he has three younger ones that are at home a lot of the time, and then I have my Pilar.”

She added, “But as far as me being able to experience having a child with him, I definitely want to explore that. I’m not sure how many that will include, but I definitely know it wouldn’t be more than two.”

Congratulations to the happy couple!