Padrinos - any Spanish speakers?

Sponsors.

Sponsors is such an ugly word... aaaa I knew that was the answer and didnt want to use it... any other "prettier" word ideas?

Benefactor, patron, or advocate would also work.

Good Thanks!

My handy little thesaurus widget comes up with: Patrons; benefactors; supporters; godfathers; angels?

I need one of those... Sponsors just sounds like your doing a fundraiser or something

Padrinos is the same as godparents, im puerto rican

Weirdly enough, in puerto rico its the same as best man or maid of honor.

Godparents....Godfather,,Godmother.

Ugh, this is a tricky one I would probably use "Honorary Patrons" to make it sound prettier.

Ooo... thats a good one... Do you think it would be bad just to use "padrinos" even on the English version of the program and things?

I believe when referring to weddings is best man and maid of honor.

My mom has told me you can have two sets "padrinos" and best man and maid of honor.

Yeah I wouldn't say it in spanish lol. I can already imagine "What the heck is a "pa-dree-no"?" lol

Okay, so tell me what do the padrinos do anyway? I was kind of thinking about doing this but not really sure if I should. We are Puerto Rican, and I have only had 1 family member I know have Padrinos, which were MY parents! LOL. But I don't really know what my parents did besides get dressed up in the wedding attire.

If we did have padrinos for our wedding, I know who it would be and I know they have been padrinos at another wedding. But what do they do??

Padrinos help out with the wedding. They dont have to be bridesmaids or groomsmen, they just help out with something. Like if an aunt and uncle tell you they want to be the "padrinos" for the cake, it means that they are paying for the cake.

@Summer - this may help

http://weddingnumberthree.blogspot.com/2008/03/padrinos-madrinas-hispanic-wedding.html

I didn't think of having any..

Thanks guys

@ Didi - the padrinos pay for stuff We have more than 2 sets of padrinos. We just made a list of things like cake, food, alcohol, etc along with estimated cost and asked them if they would take the "honor" of being the padrinos to an item.... It helps with costs... They dont actually "do" anything except pay the money, but they do get recognized in some way... we are very thankful and wil be getting each one a small thank you gift, they will be listed on programs, there is a display easel where they will be thanked publicly and there is usually a special dance to have all the padrinos be able to dance with the bride and groom. HTH

I would use padrinos. If there are non Spanish speaking guests, they can learn a new word. I don't think there is an accurate translation, other than sponsors, which I don't like because it takes away from what being a padrino truly is. While it can also mean "godmother or godfather", those are also two positions of honor that I don't think should be interchanged with padrino. From what I understand(high school sweetie was Puerto Rican), being a padrino is an honor. Someone please correct me if my memory is bad. It has been 36 years.

It is an honor to be asked.... and the padrinos accept it as an honor and I dont think the word "sponsor" captures that honor. When I think of godparents I think of the people I choose for my children when they are baptized.. not really related to a wedding... I was thinking there would be a more appropriate word that maybe I was missing since spanish is my second language, but maybe not