Your Wedding VowsLike most couples, you want your vows to be special. But you may also be nervous about delivering them in front of everyone. As you look into one another's eyes and proclaim your love, I'll work to keep you free of distraction. There are comfortable ways to help put into words what is so clear in your hearts.
Sample Vows:
I take you to be my wife/husband, and solemnly pledge to you my loyalty and love, through all the days of my life.
I take you to be my wife/husband, to have and to hold from this day forward; for better or worse, for richer or poorer, in sickness and in health (alt: in good times and bad, living well and overcoming distress, giving care and being cared for), to love and to cherish, so long as we both shall live. With my whole heart and with my complete devotion, I pledge my love to you.
I take you to be my wife/husband. I offer my strength and support. I pledge my loyalty and faith. I offer my hope. I will trust, respect and encourage you. I give you all my love in all the circumstances of life, as long as we both shall live.
I take you to be the wife/husband of all my today and tomorrows, to be the mother/father of my children, to be the companion of my home. We shall face together whatever our lives may encounter, and share together our riches of goodness and plenty and love.
[name], you and I are in our youth as we begin our life together. As husband and wife, I want us to enjoy our youth together, to experience what life has to offer, to drink deeply at the fountain of love. But I also want us to grow old together, to gather wisdom from all our shared experiences, to discover the joy of loving more deeply as the years pass. I want us to be inseparably bound by the thousands of events we will live together. I want us to build a past rich with laughter, love and adventure - a past we can always appreciate with fondness, while bravely and enthusiastically facing our future.
[name], we have come together late in our lives. I wish it could have been earlier, much earlier. But today, as I become your husband/wife, I thank God for bringing us together. And I promise to make up for lost time by loving you with all my heart and soul. I promise to not sweat the small stuff, to not be set in my ways, to get out of my ruts, to live life earnestly and passionately. I promise as your husband/wife to be your friend and companion for all of our days.
