Interpretations of a Bilingual Life

This past weekend I attended my cousins wedding. The most interesting part (other than the obvious beautiful happenings we normally see at weddings) was the reciting of the wedding vows. Let me preface what I’m about to write about with, everyone there spoke Spanish fortunately. The groom is a native Spanish speaker and more proficient in Spanish; decided to recite his vows in Spanish, while my cousin recited her’s in English! The minister said everything in English, so you can just imagine how on top of being nervous the groom was also trying to translate everything! The rest of the wedding was a muscial stream of Spanish, English, and Spanglish.