New details have emerged about the most eagerly awaited wedding of the year. The newspaper "Jornal de Notícias" (source in Portuguese) obtained access to the marriage certificate of Cristiano Ronaldo and Georgina Rodríguez and reports that the civil ceremony was held at the couple’s home in Cascais on Tuesday 11 August, at 13:30.
In addition to their five children, who were already known to have been present through the statement issued by the agency representing the player, there were also four witnesses. They were Miguel Paixão, a friend of the footballer since his youth days at Sporting, Ivana Rodríguez, Georgina’s sister, and Jose Rodríguez Sangil and Monica Gonzalez Martinez, a Spanish jeweller and his wife.
The marriage was formalised by Maria Manuel Folhadela de Oliveira, a registrar who travelled from Porto to carry out the ceremony.
The document also shows that the Portuguese footballer and his wife chose the separation of property regime (source in Portuguese). Under this arrangement, each spouse normally keeps as their own both the assets they already held before the marriage and any property they acquire afterwards.
However, the separation of property regime is not the default regime for marriages in Portugal and, in order to choose it, couples must enter into 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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Furthermore, according to the document seen by "Jornal de Notícias", neither of them adopted the other’s surname following the marriage, and they have kept the Saudi capital, Riyadh, as their usual place of residence.
The couple, who have been together since 2016 and announced their engagement in August 2025, have 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, on the previous Saturday, hundreds of people had gathered around Funchal Cathedral in Madeira, the island where the footballer is from, convinced they might witness the wedding of one of the world’s most high-profile couples – which did not happen.
The document recently made public by "Jornal de Notícias" does not list Dolores Aveiro, Cristiano Ronaldo’s mother, nor the footballer’s sisters, Elma and Katia Aveiro, among those present at the ceremony.
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