Wedding Planning

Trina, will you marry me?

Trina, 你愿意嫁给我吗？

Yes! Yes! And yes! Jared of course I’ll marry you!

愿意！愿意！当然愿意！Jared，我当然要嫁给你！

Oh Babe, I can’t wait to spend the rest of my life with you! I can’t wait for all the adventures we’re going to have, for all the fights and the laughter. I can’t wait to grow old and wrinkly with you.

哦，宝贝，我迫不及待想和你共度余生！我迫不及待想和你一起经历所有冒险，所有争吵和欢笑。我迫不及待想和你一起变老，长满皱纹。

Oh Jared! I can’t wait for our wedding! I hope you don’t mind, but I’ve already chosen a date! Six months from now in the summer! Melissa saw you buying the ring last month so I’ve had plenty of time to start planning!

哦，Jared！我等不及要办婚礼了！希望你别介意，但我已经选好日子了！六个月后的夏天！Melissa上个月看见你买戒指了，所以我有很多时间开始筹划！

She what?

她什么？

Oh don’t worry sweetie, I didn’t know when you were going to propose. It was still a nice surprise! As I was saying, I’ve got it all planned out. There’s almost nothing left to do! I wrote up our guest list and we will have roughly four hundred guests attending.

哦，别担心亲爱的，我不知道你什么时候求婚。这仍然是个惊喜！正如我所说，我全都计划好了。几乎没什么要做了！我写了宾客名单，大约会有四百位客人参加。

four hundred?

四百？

No need to sweat it. My parents agreed to pay for most of the wedding, which is going to be low budget anyway. So roughly four hundred people, which means that the hall at Northwood Heights will be our reception venue. I thought it would be nice if we had the wedding at your parents’ church and my uncle of course would be officiating. We’ll meet with him soon for some pre-wedding counseling. The music for the wedding ceremony was a no-brainer. My step-sister and her string quartet will take care of that. My cousin will be the official photographer. I thought it would also be nice if his daughter could sing a solo. Did you know that she’s going to be a professional opera singer?

别担心。我父母同意支付婚礼的大部分费用，反正预算也不高。所以大概四百人，这意味着Northwood Heights的大厅将作为我们的婚宴场地。我觉得婚礼在你父母教堂举行不错，当然由我叔叔主婚。我们很快会和他见面进行婚前辅导。婚礼音乐不用多想，我继妹和她的弦乐四重奏会负责。我表弟是官方摄影师。我觉得他女儿独唱一首也不错。你知道吗，她将来要成为专业歌剧演员？

Ah...

啊……

And then of course the ladies at the church would love to be our caterers for the banquet and we’ll get the Youth Group to serve us. I was thinking that your friend’s band could be our entertainment for the night. though they might have to tone it down a bit. Or we could hire a DJ. Your sister’s husband could get us a discount with that company that does the decor at weddings. What’s their name again? I was thinking that we could have an island paradise themed wedding and our theme color would be a soothing blue like Aquamarine. And there will be a huge seashell on the wall behind the podium where we’ll make our toasts! What do you think of small packages of drink mixes for our wedding favors? Who else am I missing? Oh, your uncle could be our florist and his wife could make our wedding cake!

然后当然，教堂的女士们很乐意负责宴会的餐饮，我们会让青年团来服务。我在想，你朋友的乐队可以做晚上的娱乐活动，不过他们可能需要收敛一点。或者我们可以请个DJ。你姐夫可以帮我们拿到那家婚礼装饰公司的折扣。他们叫什么名字来着？我在想我们可以办一个海岛天堂主题的婚礼，主题色是像海蓝宝石那样舒缓的蓝色。还有，在我们将要致辞的讲台后面的墙上会有一个巨大的贝壳！你觉得用小包装的饮料粉作为婚礼回礼怎么样？我还漏了谁？哦，你叔叔可以当我们的花艺师，他妻子可以做我们的婚礼蛋糕！

Wow.

哇。

See? It’s going to be wonderful! Oh this wedding is going to be everything I ever dreamed of.

看吧？会很棒的！哦，这场婚礼将是我梦寐以求的一切。

If I survive the next six months.

如果我能撑过接下来的六个月。