Need a translation for wedding invitations

[mangosago]

I'm hoping someone can assist me with this! I am planning on sending out wedding invites to some of my family who will only speak Chinese. If possible, I'd like to ask you guys to translate the English parts into Chinese, since my Chinese reading/writing skills are pretty awful, and I haven't had good luck with Google translate (I know some nominal Chinese, but I don't know if Google is being formal enough or selecting the correct one out of 12 possible translations...etc....).

1. Together with our families
2. We request the honor of your presence at the marriage of
3. Ceremony starts
4. Reception to follow
5. RSVP and Hotel Rates
6. Kindly reply by
7. __ # of seats have been reserved for you
8. Accepts with pleasure
9. __ out of __ accepts with pleasure (Not sure if I will go with this or (8) above)
10. Regretfully declines

Thank you so much in advance. I really appreciate this!

[Lu]

I'm sure someone here can be of some help, but I think it might be a better idea to ask someone in your family for help, assuming that there are people you are close enough to who can help you. Chinese wedding invitations are often written in a certain set way, and if your Chinese-speaking family finds this tradition important, you might want to use that exact style. Your nearest Chinese-speaking family member will probably be best positioned on what to write.

 

And you're wise not to use Google Translate. It will not come out remotely right.

 

Congratulations, and good luck with the invitations and the rest of the planning!

[mangosago]

15 minutes ago, Lu said:

I think it might be a better idea to ask someone in your family for help, assuming that there are people you are close enough to who can help you. Chinese wedding invitations are often written in a certain set way, and if your Chinese-speaking family finds this tradition important, you might want to use that exact style. Your nearest Chinese-speaking family member will probably be best positioned on what to write.

 

Hi Lu, Thanks for responding! I think the issue with this is that the family members close to me don't really type Chinese into computers/etc, they just read newspapers, etc.  I'm primarily targeting my older family members and they are not good at technology, or I would most likely need a plane flight to get their help in person.  Even then, I am no good at typing or entering Chinese either, if I need a character I rely on Google translate usually and hope it pulls the one I want (doesn't always happen).

 

Does it help with regards to writing things a certain way, if I say my parents came from the Zhongshan area of Guangdong? 

[mangosago]

I don't know how to edit my post, but...just to clarify -- I'm not super insistent on tradition, I just want to be able to communicate the message that such and such is happening at such and such time & date, and that x number of seats have been reserved, and how many of x are coming or not.  

 

Appreciate it

[889]

Do a Google Images search on 婚礼请帖 for standard formats and wordings. Then come back for help to fill stuff in. (Note that different Chinese communities may have different customs when it comes to invites, though.)

 

There are also order-from-China places like aliexpress.