Boris Becker
Lilian de Carvahlo Monteiro reveals everything about the wedding
Boris Beckers and Lilian de Carvalho Monteiro got married on Saturday in northern Italy.
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Boris Becker’s wife Lilian de Carvalho Monteiro reveals how the location in Portofino came about and the idea behind her dress.
Boris Becker (56) is a married man again: On Saturday, the former tennis professional married risk analyst Lilian de Carvalho Monteiro (33) in the Italian fishing village of Portofino. Vogue has now published pictures of the wedding, which apparently took place in strict secrecy.
The 85 invited guests did not know where the wedding would take place until the very end. They were ultimately driven “blind” to the wedding location in Porsche shuttles. As “Bild” reports, The guests even had to cover their cell phone cameras so that they could not give any information “outside”.
The bride was more open to “Vogue”. In an interview two days before the big day, she explained why the couple chose the former fishing village in northern Italy as their wedding location. Her first thought was actually her hometown of Rome. But: “We wanted a place that felt like our home, that was part of our life together, that we know and enjoy. One that reminds us both of ourselves.” The choices were Venice, Lake Como and Portofino.
During a visit to Portofino in February this year, the decision was made quickly: “When we arrived there and entered the venue, I immediately had a vision of what our wedding would look like. We looked at each other and both knew that this would be the place where we would celebrate our big day.”
Wedding dress was inspired by René Magritte
The couple did not have a wedding planner. “I organized everything myself. Everything was designed by me, with the help of Boris and our assistant.” The inspiration for the wedding was the theme of “Dolce Vita”. Her wedding dress – long, snow-white, off-the-shoulder and figure-hugging – consists of multi-layered chiffon and a very long veil. And it is a collaboration with Andrea Ravieli, who was inspired by René Magritte’s painting “The Lovers”. The painting symbolizes “trust, even without seeing each other,” explains de Carvalho Monteiro.
The photos of the wedding show that there were other outfits: De Carvalho Monteiro wore a white and black polka dot dress to the bridal shower the day before. To the party on the wedding evening, she wore a white ensemble with a white blazer to match her husband. The wedding cake was a four-tiered cream cake decorated with roses, and the long table was also decorated with numerous roses.
For them, their marriage means “committing to each other, caring for each other, trusting each other and sticking together,” explained de Carvalho Monteiro. Even the difficult last few years – Becker’s conviction and prison sentence – seem to have welded the couple together, as she says in the interview: “To be honest, I think we sealed our marriage a few years ago when we had to deal with certain things together.”
De Carvalho Monteiro on marriage: “It’s hard work”
Also from the perspective of a risk analyst, de Carvalho Monteiro explains her view on marriage: “You have to invest in it and work on it every day. It’s a decision you make every day. You can’t just give up just because it gets difficult. It’s hard work and I understand that. I think we both understand that.”
This is Boris Becker’s third marriage: he was married to Barbara Becker (57) from 1993 to 2001 and had two children, Noah (30) and Elias Becker (25). In 2009, he married his then girlfriend Lilly Becker (48), from whose relationship his third son Amadeus (14) was born. Boris Becker also has a daughter, Anna Ermakova (24), with the Russian-British model Angela Ermakova (56). Becker has been in a relationship with the Italian Lilian de Carvalho Monteiro since 2020. He announced the engagement at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2024.