Toasts and Dinner Talk at a Spanish Wedding
Finding your seat, chatting over dinner and raising a glass at a celebration in Spain.
Spanish wedding dinners and big celebration meals are long, loud and full of toasts: guests chant for speeches, clink glasses looking each other in the eye, and nobody leaves before the cake. These cards follow a guest from finding the right table, through dinner and a toast, to saying goodbye at the end of the night.
- 1
¿Hay sitios asignados o nos sentamos donde queramos?
Are the seats assigned, or do we sit wherever we like?
- 2
¿Te importa si me siento aquí?
Mind if I sit here?
- 3
Creo que estamos en la mesa siete.
I think we're at table seven.
- 4
¿Y tú de qué conoces a los novios?
So how do you know the bride and groom?
- 5
Soy amigo del novio, de la uni.
I'm a friend of the groom's from uni.
- 6
¿Me pasas el pan, porfa?
Could you pass me the bread, please?
- 7
Madre mía, esto está buenísimo.
Wow, this is delicious.
- 8
Me gustaría proponer un brindis.
I'd like to propose a toast.
- 9
¡Por los novios!
To the bride and groom!
- 10
Mírame a los ojos al brindar, que si no da mala suerte.
Look me in the eye when we clink glasses, or it's bad luck.
- 11
Para mí no, gracias, que ya he repetido.
Not for me, thanks, I've already had seconds.
- 12
¿Me echas un poco más de agua?
Could you top me up with a bit more water?
- 13
¡Que hablen, que hablen!
Speech! Speech!
- 14
Lo habéis organizado todo genial.
You've both done an amazing job organising everything.
- 15
¡Que sea por muchos años más!
Here's to many more years!
- 16
No puedo más, estoy llenísimo.
I'm stuffed, I can't eat another thing.
- 17
Perdona, no he pillado tu nombre.
Sorry, I didn't catch your name.
- 18
Qué discurso tan bonito, casi lloro.
What a lovely speech, I almost cried.
- 19
Muchas gracias por todo, ha sido una noche estupenda.
Thank you for everything, it's been a wonderful night.
- 20
Hay tanto ruido que casi no te oigo.
It's so loud I can barely hear you.