Trilingual wedding.

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What do you think of having a translator for each language,at least for the speech only?

View quoted message Thanks Erin for the suggestions! I was thinking to have my brother translate the speeches to my parents quietly, just by sitting next to them. I'm not sure how distracting it would be.
And having the speeches printed, im not sure about that because I like to be surprised by people's speech. I dont wanna read it before the D day. 😜

Wow! And I thought I had problems. Sorry, I don't have any advice that hasn't been given yet. Hope it works out well, though.

I'm so happy from receiving all these awesome ideas. I really like the idea of translating the ceremony. I didn't think of doing the vows in English and our own language. That would be very sweet!
As a guest?would you be bored of listening to something (speech maybe ) in English and a different language?

My parents only speak English. His family only speaks Portuguese. His mom does not speak Spanish but can can get by in Spanish better than English.
The groom is fluent in 5 languages and I'm only fluent in one but have intermediate Portuguese and Spanish.
we chose a country to get married where they speak Spanish. Our vows have to be in Spanish by law with an English translator. I have decided not to tell by parents this part. We will be speaking in all 3 languages for our ceremony.
Our wedding speech will be in Portuguese and English. Our wedding song is sung in Spanish and English. We did our website in 3 languages for our friends and family.
This will cover both our families. I just wish my parents could welcome his family in their language as my mother in law is practicing a few sentences in English.

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I love the idea of translating the ceremony for your parents! I'd do a special program for each of them so they can follow along!

Can you guys recite your vows in all three languages? That would be really special! My sister in law's husband is from Costa Rica and they recited their vows in English and Spanish.

View quoted message Well good luck with whatever you decide to do Kacy!! I hope the planning is going well.

View quoted message Those are great tips Erin!The only thing I could think of was to have certain parts spoken in one of the three languages, the next section in another of the three, but I think I like Erin's suggestions more, because at least everyone can understand every part of it. It might become costly/lots of paper to translate and give everyone a paper (depending on the number of guests) but that could be another way, or if there is a screen, you could project the ceremony in all three or maybe spanish/your parents' language. Though that might be distracting. I'm not sure what I'll do, but I think I'll only have to deal with Spanish and English, I don't think I'll have to include French too, but we'll see!

Maybe you could translate your ceremony ahead of time into both languages and have those printed for your parents.

You could have some parts of the ceremony in all three languages like pronouncing you husband and wife.

You could also have someone quietly translating for them throughout the ceremony but that might be distracting.