Weddings and funerals
Bilingual wedding or funeral? Every guest can follow.
When the family speaks two languages, the ceremony reaches each guest in their own language, on the phone in their pocket. Guests scan a small card and read along, or listen with headphones.
The officiant says, in English
“Welcome, family and friends. We are gathered here today to celebrate the marriage of Ana and David, and to ask God’s blessing on their life together.”
What guests read on their phones
Español
Bienvenidos, familia y amigos, nos hemos reunido aquí hoypara celebrar el matrimonio de Ana y David,y para pedir la bendición de Dios sobre su vida juntos.
한국어
가족과 친구 여러분, 오늘 우리는 이곳에 모였습니다아나와 데이비드의 결혼을 축하하기 위해그리고 두 사람의 함께하는 삶에 하나님의 축복을 구하기 위해.
中文
欢迎家人和朋友们，今天我们聚集在这里庆祝安娜和大卫的婚姻，并祈求上帝赐福他们共同的生活。
How it works
Four steps, from the office to the last guest.
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Print the cards
In the console, Print cards makes eight small cards to a page with your church’s code. Add a line for the occasion if you like: the couple’s names, or the name of the person being remembered.
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Put a card on each seat
Or slip them into the programme. Guests scan with the phone’s camera; there is nothing to install and no church Wi-Fi to join.
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Go live before it starts
Whoever runs Livefy presses Go live as the ceremony begins, Pause during the songs, and End service afterwards.
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Guests read, or listen
Each guest chooses a language and reads along, or taps Listen to hear the translation, with headphones if they prefer.
What to plan
Five things to settle before the day.
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A microphone for every voice
Livefy hears only what reaches the laptop: a feed from the sound desk, or a microphone plugged into it. The officiant, the vows, the readings and every eulogy need to reach it, or the captions will miss them.
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Choose the caption languages
Add each language the guests read. If the ceremony itself is in two languages, run both, so each side can read the other’s parts. Each language uses its own hours.
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Say the names beforehand
Names are among the things live translation most often gets wrong. In a short test before the day, have the officiant say the names into the microphone and check how they come out.
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Pause during the songs
Singing is harder to recognize than speech. Press Pause when a song starts and Resume after it. At a Catholic wedding or funeral Mass, the vows and readings are texts of the rite with approved translations: ask the priest whether they should be captioned, and press Pause through them if not.
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Test it first
Your officiant is the fairest test: try a few minutes at the rehearsal.
What it costs
Counted per language.
An hour of translation in one caption language is one hour, and each extra language uses its own hours. Pause stops translation, for example during songs.
For example
A one-hour ceremony, captions in two languages
1 hour × 2 languages = 2 hours
- On a monthly plan
- 2 hours from the plan
- Without a plan
- $40 for 5 hours, 3 left over
Your church has a monthly plan
Use your plan’s hours
Need more than the plan’s hours? $6 an hour: 5 hours for $30.
All plansNo plan
$40 for 5 translation hours
Any number of languages: 5 h in one language, or 2 h 30 m each in two languages. Hours you buy never expire.
For a conference or a long day, see event pricing.
Questions
What families and church offices ask.
Our church does not use Livefy. Can the family still use it?
Yes, with a laptop or desktop computer at the ceremony, someone to press Go live, and an account. Without a plan, $40 buys 5 translation hours, any number of languages: 5 h in one language, or 2 h 30 m each in two languages. Phones and tablets cannot run the captions, only read them.
Does it work outside, at the graveside?
The laptop needs an internet connection and a microphone that hears the speaker. Guests’ phones use their own connection.
Can the ceremony be in two languages?
Yes. Run both as caption languages, so each side can read the other’s parts. Set the speaker language to the language most of the ceremony is in; Livefy still hears the other. Try a few minutes of it at the rehearsal first.
Can guests listen instead of reading?
Yes. The phone page can read the translation aloud, so guests who bring headphones can listen without disturbing anyone.
Is anything kept afterwards?
Every service gets one line in History for billing: the date, how long it ran, the languages, and who ran it if a name was picked under Running today. The words are kept only if your church keeps transcripts, and the account owner can delete them by turning off Keep the words of each service in Settings, which deletes every kept transcript.
Another question? Write to hello@livefy.live.
ONE EVENT
For the bilingual wedding or the funeral.
The family
Book the hours for the day
5 hours for $40, no plan needed. Hours you buy never expire.
The church office
Print the cards for the seats
Eight cards to a page, the size of a business card, with your church’s code and, if you like, a line for the occasion.
Print the cards