Bilingual ceremony

Hey! We are doing the similar and my FH just spoke about how it works for our ceremony tonight! Do not stress about it because it can work and you are thoughtful to think of such. I wanted to make sure ALL of my family (Spanish-Speaking) such as grandmothers and more to feel included. It's fine that your FH doesn't mind or open to the idea. Pretty much the translator can figure it out and practice it again at the rehearsal. Wedding in 11 days, English to Spanish after a certain amount of phrases. (Personal choice) but definitely not recommended after EACH line. Haha.

I made my MOH (Bilingual) to be the translator which I know she will be great at. You could ask FH if a groomsmen or family member can handle the task pretty well. I recommend if you haven't been to one to youtube videos bilingual ceremonies. Your best chance of preparing give whoever is the translator homework to practice the script from the officiant and they can practice together at rehearsal.

It's a nice thought, but if your FH doesn't care either way and it's his family, it's okay to let it go. If it is stressful, just don't do it. If it were important to your FH, then it would be worth stressing over.

This sounds awesome.

I would definitely encourage you to be as inclusive as possible. It’s like going to a wedding and not understanding what anyone’s saying. That’s not fun.
My pastor, who is officiating, is going to do the ceremony in both English and Spanish. Doesn’t have to be the officiant, but just throwing that out there.
All the best!!

I think it would be really cool to do it in two languages. Although, maybe do just a section of it in Spanish? Maybe the actual repeat after me vows part if you're having that?

My cousin did that last year at her wedding. 2 priests- 1 English speaking, 1 polish speaking. One priest would say a segment, then the next priest would do the same segment in their language. It was a great experience to witness as a guest, and you could tell certain relatives were very appreciative. That being said, her ceremony was over an hour. Picture a long Catholic wedding ceremony x2 😂

We had a similar situation, but with 4 guests who speak very little English, including H's parents. I left it up to him and he thought it was too much to do the entire ceremony in two languages, so we did the ceremony in only English with a reading in only Spanish. It turned out beautiful.