At around three o'clock on Saturday afternoon, hundreds of people began to gather outside Funchal's Sé Cathedral in Madeira. The ceremony was running slightly late: the bride was missing, the last to arrive, as is customary.
Outside, around two thousand people with their mobile phones held aloft tried to capture the precious moment; many will have managed it, but when they realised that the bride was not Georgina Rodriguez but Nicole, and those who did get into the church saw that it was not Ronaldo standing by the altar but Fábio, they will surely have been left disappointed.
