Where language meets love

Wedding interpreting represents a complex, high-responsibility interpreting context that requires advanced professional practice, intercultural competence, and ethical awareness. This webinar explores the specific interpreting skills and professional behaviours needed in civil, religious, and symbolic wedding ceremonies, where language has legal, emotional, and cultural consequences. Through structured case studies, the session highlights the interpreter’s role in managing multilingual interactions, maintaining impartiality under emotional pressure, and upholding professional standards in public-facing environments.

Key take-aways

• Apply interpreting techniques appropriate to emotionally and legally sensitive contexts
  

• Strengthen intercultural competence and cultural mediation strategies
  

• Recognise and manage ethical challenges in non-traditional interpreting settings
  

• Enhance professional presence and conduct in public-facing assignments
  

Francesca Manicardi MCIL is an Italian interpreter, translator and lecturer working with English, German and French. She is the founder of Punto F, established in 2014, and specialises in weddings, marketing, tourism, food and wine, beauty and fashion. With over 15 years' experience as a freelancer and business owner, she also created Freelance Lab, the first Italian mentoring programme for aspiring translators and interpreters. Francesca regularly speaks at international conferences, including BP Conference, LEO Conference and ATA.

Find her at www.punto-f.com and www.thefreelancelab.it