In trying to hurriedly find something else this afternoon, we came across this quote by the Buddha:
Unity can only be manifested by the Binary. Unity itself and the idea of Unity are already two.
I thought that would be cool, maybe spark some interesting conversations at the reception about identity, individuality, and compromise. But the quotes are the only things not being translated into Spanish on the programmes, and the bilingual peeps attending might be unfairly called upon to explain them.Similarly, they choose some random happy song for their first dance, because "Suga Suga" would get weird looks from some relatives on both sides.
So it's almost all over, and I have to say my kid sister has taught me a lot about patience and compromise during this whole wedding planning process. Cuz in her shoes, I probably would've ditched it all long ago and gone to Vegas.
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This sort of problem is a lot less abstract for me now. I picked up some postcards this weekend so Sayaka and I can send out announcements.
I hadn't even thought about appropriate quotes. I sure can find a lot of bad ones on this site.
“Embrace nothing:
If you meet the Buddha, kill the Buddha.
If you meet your father, kill your father.
Only live your life as it is,
Not bound to anything.”
Not right for the situation, I think.
i think it's more fun to find innapropriate ones.
what's the one from song of solomon? is it my favorite one?
T -- there are a lot of cynical quotes about marriage out there. And then we started flipping through Bobby Burns poetry cuz it happened to be on the family bookshelf, but then realized that would also be weird to translate. Will yours be bilingual, too?
The Solomon quote was part of 3:3 -- "I found the one whom my soul loves." They found various incarnations (have found/found, the one/him, heart/soul), but I forget which translation the one they settled on is from. My sister didn't want the "him" in there. When they were choosing the dance song, she also wanted a gender-neutral one.
Hoping 'small' will solve these problems - It's just going to be our folks and our brothers (2 parents, 1 brother each) - my brother speaks Japanese fluently, but she's the only one who speaks English.
We're looking to skip out on the whole programmes thing - maybe we'll have my brother do running translation for them. Buy some headsets, and have him mutter under his breath during the ceremony? :)
We do need to send japanese and english announcements, but we'll probably just print 2 seperate sets.
Plans Plans Plans!
Whoa, yeah, no need for the programmes if there'll only be 6 others there!
My sister's have everything in Spanish, with the English in scripty shadows beneath. It's pretty cool.
Hope the plans are going well! Sounds like you've got the ball rolling ...
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