Cristiano Ronaldo’s decision to keep his wedding to Georgina Rodríguez almost entirely private has raised another question after a Portuguese television presenter claimed that even members of his immediate family may have received virtually no notice that the ceremony was taking place.The claim comes after the couple’s marriage certificate revealed that Ronaldo’s mother, Dolores Aveiro, and his siblings Hugo, Elma and Katia were not present when he and Rodríguez married at their Cascais home on August 11. Only four witnesses and the couple’s five children attended the intimate civil ceremony.
‘30 seconds beforehand’
The extraordinary claim was made by Portuguese presenter Cristina Ferreira on the TVI programme Dois às 10 while discussing the absence of Ronaldo’s family from the ceremony, according to The Sun.“It will cause a lot of problems because the family wasn’t present,” Ferreira said. She then suggested that they may not even have known the wedding was happening until moments before it began.“And they shouldn’t even have known,” she said. “Or if they did know, it was 30 seconds beforehand.”Ferreira’s comments are a claim rather than confirmation from Ronaldo or his family, and her co-host Cláudio Ramos urged caution about drawing conclusions from what was visible publicly.“I really hope that what we said here, which had to do with the impressions we get from what exists on social media, did not actually cause sadness in the family, that things were not as they apparently seem,” Ramos said.
Ronaldo’s mother was not at the ceremony
The claim comes after Jornal de Notícias obtained and published the couple’s marriage certificate, providing the first detailed account of who was present.The document names Miguel Paixão, Ronaldo’s longtime friend, Ivana Rodríguez, Georgina’s sister, and Spanish jeweller José Rodríguez Sangil and his wife Mónica González Martínez as the four witnesses.Ronaldo’s mother and three siblings were not among them.That absence is particularly notable because Dolores publicly appeared to support the marriage after Ronaldo and Rodríguez announced it. She responded to her son’s Instagram post showing their wedding rings with a heart emoji.There is therefore no public indication from Dolores herself that she objected to the marriage, while the presenter’s comments have introduced a different possibility: that the ceremony was kept so tightly controlled that even Ronaldo’s family may have been informed only at the last moment.
The wedding was kept deliberately small
Ronaldo and Rodríguez married at 1.30pm on August 11 at their mansion in the exclusive Quinta da Marinha area of Cascais, with a registrar travelling from Porto to officiate.The couple had previously given the public almost no reliable information about their plans. Reports had even sent hundreds of fans and journalists to Funchal Cathedral in Madeira after it was wrongly claimed that Ronaldo would marry there.Instead, the couple married privately in Cascais and announced the news only afterwards, posting photographs of their wedding rings with the caption “C❤️G.”
