New details have emerged about the most eagerly awaited wedding of the year. The "Jornal de Notícias" (source in Portuguese) obtained access to the marriage record of Cristiano Ronaldo and Georgina Rodríguez, reporting that the civil ceremony took place at the couple's home in Cascais on Tuesday 11 August at 1.30 p.m.
Also present were four witnesses, as well as the couple's five children, as had initially been revealed by the agency representing the player. They included Miguel Paixão, a friend of the footballer since his youth days at Sporting,Ivana Rodríguez, Georgina's sister, and José Rodríguez Sangil and Mónica González Martínez, a Spanish jeweller and his wife.
The marriage was formalised by Maria Manuel Folhadela de Oliveira, a registrar who travelled from the city of Porto to perform the act.
The document also reveals that the Portuguese footballer and his wife opted for the separation of property regime (source in Portuguese). Under this arrangement, each spouse generally retains as their own the assets they already owned before the marriage and any property they acquire afterwards.
However, the separation of property regime is not the default marital regime in Portugal and, in order to choose it, couples must conclude a prenuptial agreement. In Cristiano and Georgina's case, the document shows that this agreement was signed the day before the ceremony at a notary's office in Lisbon.
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The couple, who have been together since 2016 and announced their engagement in August 2025, thus formalised a relationship that had been the subject of speculation for months.
Contrary to what many had expected, Ronaldo and Georgina opted for an intimate ceremony to formalise their union. In fact, the previous Saturday, hundreds of people had gathered near Funchal Cathedral, in Madeira (where the footballer was born), convinced they might witness the wedding of one of the world's most high-profile couples, which ultimately did not happen.
The document recently published by "Jornal de Notícias" does not list Cristiano Ronaldo's mother, Dolores Aveiro, or the footballer's sisters, Elma and Katia Aveiro, among those present at the ceremony.
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