It’s undoubtedly been a big summer for Portuguese soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo, and not only on the pitch. Not only did Ronaldo recently conclude his run with Team Portugal at the 2026 FIFA World Cup, but he and longtime partner Georgina Rodríguez also tied the knot on Tuesday, August 11, in Cascais, Portugal—exactly one year after announcing their engagement and 10 years after first meeting.
Below, find everything you need to know about the brand-new spouses and co-parents’ long and winding journey down the aisle.
August 2016: Ronaldo and Rodríguez first meet
The couple, a few months into their relationsip.
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Adorably enough, Ronaldo’s first encounter with his now-wife came out of the blue, when he stopped into a Gucci store in Madrid. Rodríguez—an Argentine-Spanish model and social-media influencer—was working as a sales assistant there at the time…and it was love at first sight.
May 2017: Ronaldo and Rodríguez become Instagram-official
When Ronaldo posted a picture of himself and Rodríguez, complete with a heart emoji, you knew it was officially on. (After all, do men really deploy the red-heart emoji unless they’re truly smitten?)
November 2017: Ronaldo and Rodríguez welcome their first child together
Rodríguez with four of the give children the couple have raised together.
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Ronaldo was already a father to three children—son Cristiano Jr. and twins Eva Maria and Mateo—when, in late fall of 2017, Rodríguez gave birth to their first child together, a girl named Alana Martina. In a 2024 episode of Rodríguez’s Netflix docuseries Soy Georgina, Ronaldo can be seen asking Alana what she wants to be when she grows up and cracking up at her deeply relatable response: “Nothing, nothing. I’ll just stay at home.” Their second child together, Bella Esmeralda, was born in 2022.
August 2025: Ronaldo and Rodríguez put a ring on it
“Yes, I do. In this and in all my lives,” Rodríguez captioned her Instagram reveal of her stunning, oval-cut diamond engagement ring—estimated to be 35 or 37 carats—last summer.
August 2026: Ronaldo and Rodríguez wed
The newlyweds showed off their matching wedding bands on Instagram after a highly intimate ceremony in the living room of their home in Cascais, Portugal. (Afterward, the couple and their five children dutifully attended Mass.) “When I was a little girl,” Georgina told Vogue’s Gaby Wood, “I dreamt of the biggest castle, the biggest carriage, the longest dress, a crown full of diamonds. And now I’m saying: no. I want something intimate, with my partner and our children, at home. Because castles, houses, islands, horses, cars: We have all of that within reach every day. But something intimate—that’s more unusual for us.” Many felicidades and parabéns to the happy couple!
