Welsh wedding invitation.

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Just as it says in the title really.

My DH has a significantly younger relative who is getting married this summer. We have just received an invitation to the wedding, written entirely in Welsh. Neither DH or I speak Welsh and the bride and groom are well aware of this.

I am totally cool with somebody who grew up in a Welsh first language family wanting to celebrate their wedding in their language. However I can't help feeling it is a bit rude to send out invitations in a language many guests can't understand without even a short note in a mutually spoken language.

AIBU?

I think that's lovely, what a novelty

Arseholes

Just google translate it and also send a reply using translate it will make her day

Unless your the type to moan about wedding but still go and drink the wine and eat the food

I don't think you are. And can only assume that they don't want you there. I'd bin it.

Our family is pretty multi-lingual and translation is a big feature of communications between the different branches.

Ignore it, if you don't understand what it says.

Priodas means wedding if that helps you translate it at all!
YANBU, they should have provided a bilingual version or translation for the non-Welsh speakers.

If it's in Welsh, do you understand when and where it is?

I agree that there should be a note with the details in English.

I went to a Welsh uni. All the posters etc had to be bi-lingual. I really liked that.

yep rude - they should have put a translation underneath

Is it a poem?

Have you turned it over? Definitely not English one side and Welsh the other?

rude - when we got married we sent english invites (date place map etc understandable) but put in a handwritten note in the other language

i would assume they don't want you there!

If the invitation is Welsh only then I guess the ceremony, speeches, etc will be Welsh only. I'd probably just skip it.

Live dangerously'
Use Google translate.
nogrip How rude.

Don't be so lazy - it's not exactly hard to translate online is it? Would amuse me. Send reply back in Elvish.

I speak Welsh if you need someone to translate

Rude thing to do
I would reply in Latin

Please tell me there is a grabby poem in Cymraeg?

Thanks all, I have turned over the invitation, shaken out the envelope in case of a note, nothing.

As BarbarianMum and TheAntiBoop said, it does feel like they don't want us there and have only sent the invitation to keep the parents happy or a misplaced sense of who they should invite.

Yeah, those Welsh people, using Welsh, for their Welsh wedding.
Welsh bastards.

Am I the only one who would find this funny? Unless there's a backstory, why would they be trying to be rude?

it's not about the language - it's about making an effort for your guests. so they actually know what they are being invited to, when, where etc etc

Of course they should use Welsh. But they can't expect friends and relatives who only speak English to learn a new language to decide if they can attend the wedding or not?!

Stop feeling sorry for yourself and crack on with translating it. I'd love the challenge?

I'd feel like they're trying to prove a point. We had a bilingual wedding and provided translation for the speeches etc.

We didn't want any of our guests to feel left out.

might they think you speak welsh?

If not, then maybe they just thought it would be fun.

If it's just because they speak Welsh then I don't think it's rude, it's not exactly hard to get it translated - it would have taken you less time than starting this thread.