Witnesses and marriage regime: new details on Cristiano and Georgina's wedding
The marriage certificate seen by "Jornal de Notícias" shows that one of the world's most high-profile couples chose separation of assets, with their five children and four witnesses attending.
Published on 14/08/2026 - 9:51 GMT+2•Updated 13:06
New details have emerged about the most eagerly awaited wedding of the year. The "Jornal de Notícias" (source in Portuguese) obtained the marriage certificate 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 at the ceremony, in addition to their five children,as had initially been revealed by the agency representing the player, were 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 the city of Porto to conduct the ceremony.
The document also reveals that the Portuguese footballer and his wife opted for the separate property regime (source in Portuguese). Under this arrangement, each spouse generally keeps as their own the assets they already held before the marriage and any property they acquire thereafter.
But the separate property regime is not the default regime for marriages in Portugal and, to choose it, couples must enter into a prenuptial agreement. In the case of Cristiano and Georgina, the document shows that this agreement was signed the day before the ceremony, at a notary's office in Lisbon.
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, on the previous Saturday, hundreds of people had gathered in the vicinity of Funchal Cathedral, in Madeira, the island where the footballer was born, convinced they might witness the wedding of one of the most high-profile couples in the world, which did not happen.
The document recently released by "Jornal de Notícias" does not name Dolores Aveiro, Cristiano Ronaldo's mother, nor the footballer's sisters, Elma and Katia Aveiro, among those present at the ceremony.
