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My husband's family is from Latin America (Chile and Argentina) and I am Chinese.  We had a Chinese banquet as the main reception. We didn't do the traditional games, but I did do one dress change, and we hired lion dancers.

To incorporate his Latin heritage, our ceremony reading was "Sonnet 17" by Pablo Neruda and our classical guitarist played music from Argentina.  Our favors were alfajores.  We almost ordered a cake that was green tea with dulce de leche filling but didn't like the final taste.  We included Chinese and Spanish translations of our invitations - these were printed out on our computer, nothing too fancy.  Our rehearsal dinner included steak (although it was at a french bistro).  Good luck!

It's customary at Spanish weddings for the bride to give pins ("alfileres") to the women guests, pinned right sigh up if she's married and right side down if she's single.  If the pin falls out during the reception, it means she will marry.

I'm incorporating lots of Spanish traditions (including arras) and my blog is linked below, so maybe that will be of help to you...GL!

When u say Spanish, you mean Spain or Hispanic culture in general? I am Chinese born in Costa Rica. I had some Spanish music, like salsa, merengue, reggaeton. During the cocktail hour, we had paella and empanadas. I wanted to hire a Mariachi Band to serenade my fiance (it's supposed to be that the groom serenades the bride but Mariachi's are not part of his culture). It would be really cool if nobody knows about the Mariachi and they just enter the room surprising your future husband and guests. As favors, I've also heard of alfajores (<font size="-1">shortbread cookies sandwiched together with Dulce de Leche), cajetas(milk sweet) or just any other kind of Hispanic sweets. I used chocolate covered guayaba and pineapple sweets,  brought directly from my dear country.</font>
A friend of mine who is also Chinese Costa Rican hired both the Lion Dance and some carnaval performing dancers. It was a complete hit!  Good luck!