The wedding vows are promises made by the bride and groom to each other during a wedding ceremony. You can chose to write your own wedding vows, rather than relying on standard wedding vows samples. In Western culture, this pledge has traditionally included the notions of affection (love, comfort, keep), faithfulness (forsaking all others), unconditionality (for richer or for poorer, in sickness and in health), and permanence (as long as we both shall live, until death do us part).
Traditional vows
Bride and Groom:
(Wife/husband’s name), I promise to be a good and faithful husband/wife to you, and also a patient, loving father/mother to (children’s names), caring for them and providing for them as my own.
I promise to be their strength and their emotional support, loving them with all my heart forever.
The childs can repeat ‘We do’ after these words:
And now, (children’s names), do you promise to love and respect your parent’s new husband/wife? Do you promise to support their marriage and new family?
Do you promise to accept the responsibility of being their children, and to encourage them and support them in your new life together?”
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Traditional vows
The groom says:
In the name of God, I (…) take you (…) to be my wife, to have and to hold from this day forward,
for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish,
until we are parted by death. This is my solemn vow.
The bride says:
In the name of God, I (…) take you (…) to be my husband, to have and to hold from this day forward,
for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish,
until we are parted by death. This is my solemn vow.
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Traditional vows
A poem written by a medieval menestrel about seven hundred years ago.
You and I
Have so much love,
That it burns like a fire,
In which we bake a lump of clay
Molded into a figure of you
And a figure of me.
Then we take both of them.
And break them into pieces,
And mix the pieces with water,
And mold again a figure of you And a figure of me.
I am in your clay.
You are in my clay.
In life we share a single quilt,
In death we will share one coffin.
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Traditional vows
Ye are Blood of my Blood, and Bone of my Bone.
I give ye my Body, that we Two might be One.
I give ye my Spirit, ’til our Life shall be Done.
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Traditional vows
GROOM’ VOW: “I, ___________, take thee _________ to my wedded wife, to have and to hold from this day forward, for better for worse, for richer for poorer, for fairer or fouler, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, till death us depart, according to God’s holy ordinance; and thereunto I plight thee my troth.
BRIDE’S VOW: I ___________ take thee___________ to my wedded husband, to have and to hold from this day forward, for better for worse, for richer or poorer, in sickness and in health, to be bonny and buxom at bed and at board, to love and to cherish, till death us depart, according to God’s holy ordinance; and thereunto I plight thee my troth.
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Traditional vows
(Groom), as you place the ring upon the finger of __________, speak to her these vows:
” With this ring
be thou consecrated unto me
as my wife
according to the law of God
and the faith of Israel.”
(Bride), as you place the ring upon the finger of __________, speak to him these vows:
” With this ring
be thou consecrated unto me
as my husband
according to the law of God
and the faith of Israel.”
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Traditional vows
I, _____, take you, _____, as the love of my life. I vow to be patient with you and the circumstances in our lives. I vow to be kind to all people we come across. I vow not to be boastful of our love or about our accomplishments.
I promise to be proud of you, but not proud in love for though I will strive for perfection, I know I can never reach it. I promise not to be quick to anger, but to think before I speak and act. I vow not to keep a record of wrongs, but to always keep the happy memories alive.
Through God, our love will never fail.
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