Family prints
Ná déan nós agus ná bris nós
Neither make nor break a custom.
Wry counsel for the traditionalist in your life. Or the reformer who needs warning.
The wording is quoted exactly from the record and its cited source; personalisation touches only your own names and date, never the Irish.
About this saying
Attested twice over, a century apart in register: Ó Dónaill prints it as the dictionary proverb (neither make nor break a custom) and a Kerry schoolteacher of the 1930s recorded the Munster form in the Schools’ Collection, in passing, as the reason local weddings never happened until Lent was over. The dictionary preserves the wording; the manuscript catches the proverb actually governing behaviour, which is the rarer thing to see.