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Multi-lingual save the dates?

vanadisislandvanadisisland member
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Our wedding isn't for another year, but my FI and I really want to send out our STDs ASAP. I know it's normally far too early to send them, but most of our VIPs live abroad, so we want them to have enough time to book reasonably prised flights.

Anyway, the point is that we are probably going to have a trilingual wedding, Punjabi, Icelandic and English. Do you think it's better to and out trilingual STDs, so that it's indicated early that the wedding will be trilignual, or to send out three sets, one for each language to the relevant people?
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  • AddieCakeAddieCake member
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    It's not too early to send them. STDs should be sent a year to 6 months out. Why do you need to indicate the ceremony will be tri-lingual? Do some of your guests not speak English and therefore won't be able to read the STD unless it's in their language? If not, I would just use English on them if everyone speaks it.
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  • vanadisislandvanadisisland member
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    AddieCake said:
    It's not too early to send them. STDs should be sent a year to 6 months out. Why do you need to indicate the ceremony will be tri-lingual? Do some of your guests not speak English and therefore won't be able to read the STD unless it's in their language? If not, I would just use English on them if everyone speaks it.
    One set of FI's grandparents and a few other members of her family don't understand English at all, and only understand Punjabi.
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  • AddieCakeAddieCake member
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    I guess I would go for the trilingual STDs, then.
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  • JoanE2012JoanE2012 member
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    Do the Icelandic folks understand English?  Also, just curious how long your ceremony will be if you need to do 3 languages?
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  • vanadisislandvanadisisland member
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    JoanE2012 said:
    Do the Icelandic folks understand English?  Also, just curious how long your ceremony will be if you need to do 3 languages?
    They do yeah, but it's important to for FI to have it included. It won't be any longer than a normal ceremony, just different parts will be in different languages. We'll have the translations in the program.
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  • loro929loro929 member
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    We had a similar situation. About 1/3 of our guests are from Italy and speak little to no English. It was imperative to now-DH that the invites include Italian. We opted to print 2 sets. It got very busy with multiple languages. Also, some of the printing companies (we bought our save the dates from minted) cannot directly print non-latin or accented characters. So, double check with them regarding characters from different languages before you purchase!
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  • kimmiinthemittenkimmiinthemitten member
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    vanadisisland said:
    Our wedding isn't for another year, but my FI and I really want to send out our STDs ASAP. I know it's normally far too early to send them, but most of our VIPs live abroad, so we want them to have enough time to book reasonably prised flights.

    Anyway, the point is that we are probably going to have a trilingual wedding, Punjabi, Icelandic and English. Do you think it's better to and out trilingual STDs, so that it's indicated early that the wedding will be trilignual, or to send out three sets, one for each language to the relevant people?
    If you can narrow down your STD languages to two, you could do a two sided STD, one in English and the other in say Punjabi so they mirror each other and your guests will see it will be a tri-lingual ceremony and event.
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  • AmandaKessAmandaKess member
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    I would just make them trilingual. No need to send out three different versions in my mind.
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