Cristiano Ronaldo and Georgina Rodriguez. Image via: georginagio/ InstagramCristiano Ronaldo married longtime partner Georgina Rodriguez on August 11 in a closely guarded civil ceremony at his newly built mansion in Cascais, Portugal, and questions are now swirling over who was actually there. Chief among them: was his mother, Dolores Aveiro, in the room?Reports on the guest list have conflicted since the wedding certificate surfaced, but the emerging picture points to an unusually small, tightly controlled event, one that appears to have excluded most of Ronaldo's own family.Did Cristiano Ronaldo's mum attend her son's wedding?Portuguese newspaper Jornal de Noticias published a copy of the marriage certificate showing the ceremony took place at Ronaldo's mansion in Quinta da Marina, with a guest list so small it left little room for extended family.Dolores Aveiro and Ronaldo's siblings, Hugo, Elma and Katia, were reportedly absent. The only witnesses named were Georgina's sister Ivana, Ronaldo's longtime friend Miguel Paixao, and a Spanish couple, jeweller Jose Rodriguez Sangil and his wife Monica Goncalez Martinez.Cristiano Ronaldo with his mom Dolores Aveiro. Image via: getty ImagesRegistrar Maria Manuel Ferreira de Campos Folhadela de Oliveira traveled from Porto to officiate. All five of Ronaldo's children were present, but that was the extent of the family presence, a striking detail given how publicly Ronaldo has credited his mother for his career. In the documentary Planeta Ronaldo, he once said, "She was a cook who worked hard all her life. The first thing I did after signing for United was to call her and say she didn't have to work ever again."Portuguese TV presenter Cristina Ferreira suggested the secrecy was deliberate. "It will cause a lot of problems because the family wasn't present. And they shouldn't even have known. Or if they did know, it was 30 seconds beforehand," she said on the show Dois as 10.Her co-host, Claudio Ramos, added a note of caution about reading too much into it: "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." Dolores has previously denied any rift with Georgina and posted a heart emoji on Ronaldo's Instagram announcement of the marriage, a small but public gesture of support.Cristiano Ronaldo's wedding with Georgina Rodriguez was very privateThe ceremony happened at 1:30 p.m. on a Tuesday, chosen because it marked exactly one year since the couple announced their engagement. The location itself was notable: Ronaldo's 900-square-metre mansion overlooking the Atlantic, reportedly valued near £30 million, sits in Cascais rather than the couple's usual base in Riyadh, where Ronaldo plays for Al Nassr.Cristiano Ronaldo and Georgina Rodriguez signed a prenuptial agreementA day before the wedding, the couple visited a public notary's office in Lisbon to formalize a prenuptial agreement keeping their property separate. Both are also keeping their pre-marriage names, with Georgina not adopting Ronaldo's surname, a departure from convention in some countries but standard practice in Portugal and Spain.What happens next for the couple?The marriage certificate, filed under number 1,493 for the year, was registered through Porto's office despite the ceremony taking place in Cascais, an administrative quirk that hasn't gone unnoticed by Portuguese press. Ronaldo and Georgina have since returned to Saudi Arabia, where Al Nassr's new season is set to kick off.