WEDDING VOWS

VOW 1

I, Groom, make these vows to you, Bride, in the presence of God and these family and friends.

Today I give myself to you and you alone, in marriage

I promise to live with you and laugh with you

To stand by your side and sleep in your arms

To encourage and inspire you

To comfort you in times of sorrow and struggle

I promise to love you, Bride, in good times and in bad

When life seems easy and when it seems hard

When our love is simple and when it is an effort

I promise to cherish you and always hold you in highest regard

These vows I make to you today, for all the days of our life.

I, Bride, make these vows to you, Groom, in the presence of God and these family and friends.

Today I give myself to you and you alone, in marriage

I promise to live with you and laugh with you

To stand by your side and sleep in your arms

To encourage and inspire you

To comfort you in times of sorrow and struggle

I promise to love you, Groom, in good times and in bad

When life seems easy and when it seems hard

When our love is simple and when it is an effort

I promise to cherish you and always hold you in highest regard

These vows I make to you today, for all the days of our life.

VOW 2

Minister: (Groom’s Name), will you have (Bride’s Name), to be your wedded wife/spouse/partner, to live together in the covenant of faith, hope, and love according to the intention of God for your lives? Will you listen to her deepest thoughts, be tender hearted and kind/wise in your daily care of her, and stand faithfully at her side in sickness and in health? Choosing her above all others, will you undertake to care for her well-being of mind and body and spirit, as long as you both shall live?

Response: I will.

Minister: (Bride’s Name), will you have (Groom’s Name), to be your wedded husband/spouse/partner, to live together in the covenant of faith, hope, and love according to the intention of God for your lives? Will you listen to his deepest thoughts, be tender hearted and kind/wise in your daily care of him, and stand faithfully at his side in sickness and in health? Choosing him above all others, will you undertake to care for him well-being of mind and body and spirit, as long as you both shall live?

Response: I will.

--Adapted from a Baptist ceremony

VOW 3

In the name of God,

I, (Groom’s Name), take you, (Bride’s Name), to be my wife, to have and to hold from this day onward, 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.

In the name of God,

I, (Bride’s Name), take you, (Groom’s Name), to be my husband, to have and to hold from this day onward, 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.

--Methodist ceremony

VOW 4

Groom:

These words are a sign from my heart

that I desire to live with you, love you, cherish you, honour you and protect you

from this day forward as my wife and that you may remember

forever that I have chosen you above all others.

Bride:

These words are a sign from my heart

that I desire to live with you, love you, cherish you, honour you and protect you

from this day forward as my husband, and that you may remember

forever that I have chosen you above all others.

VOW 5

Ministert to Groom:

(Groom’s Name) will you have (Bride’s Name) to be your wife, will

you love her, comfort her, honor and keep her in sickness and in

health, remaining faithful to her as long as you both shall live?

The groom replies: "I will."

Minister to the bride:

(Bride’s Name) will you have (Groom’s Name) to be your husband,

will you love him, comfort him. honor and keep him in sickness and

in health, remaining faithful to him as long as you both shall live?

The bride replies: "I will."

Minister to the Groom: "Repeat after me:"

I take you (Bride’s Name) to be my wife, To have and to hold from

this day forward, For better, for worse, for richer, for poorer,

To love and to cherish as long as we both shall live.

Minister to the bride: "Repeat after me:"

I take you (Groom’s Name) to be my husband, To have and to hold

from this day forward, For better, for worse, for richer, for poorer,

To love and to cherish as long as we both shall live.

VOW 6

I call upon these people here present to witness that I,

(Groom’s Name) take you (Bride’s Name) as my legally married wife.

I call upon these people here present to witness that I,

(Bride’s Name) take you (Groom’s Name) to be my legally

married husband.

VOW 7

I call upon these people here present to witness that I (Groom’s Name)

 take you (Bride’s Name), as my lawfully wedded wife, to share with you

a relationship of love and of tenderness and laughter.  I will stand by you

through all our tomorrows, respecting you as a person, your individuality,

your needs, your changes, and enjoy your love throughout our lives.

I call upon these people here present to witness that I (Bride’s Name) take

you (Groom’s Name), as my lawfully wedded husband, to share with you

a relationship of love and of tenderness and laughter.  I will stand by you

through all our tomorrows, respecting you as a person, your individuality,

your needs, your changes, and enjoy your love throughout our lives.

VOW 8

Before those dear to us gathered here today I take you (Bride’s Name) for

my legally wedded wife. I vow to love, cherish and support you with my

life through all our tomorrows.

Before those dear to us gathered here today I take you (Groom’s Name)

for my legally wedded husband. I vow to love, cherish and support you

with my life through all our tomorrows.

VOW 9

Groom: Today we cross an invisible line.

Bride: We leave behind our yesterdays and start our lives anew.

Groom: The past is over.  We will concern ourselves only with the future.

Bride: It is a new day, a new commitment, a new life.

Groom: The vows we take today will change us forever.

Bride: I take them gladly.

Groom: I take them gladly, too.

Bride: (Groom’s Name), I promise to love you, to protect you, and to be

faithful to you for all the days of my life. I will soothe your hurts and

share your delights. I will do all in my power to make you as happy as I

am today.

Groom: (Bride’s Name), I promise to love you and honor you and to

always be honest with you. I will be faithful to you for all the days of my

life. I will believe only the best about you and look always for your good

qualities.  I will do all in my power to make you as happy as I am today.

Bride: Today is the beginning of the rest of my life. I choose to spend

today, and all of my tomorrows, with you.

Groom: Today is the beginning of the rest of my life. I choose to spend it,

and all of my tomorrows, with you.

Groom: I love you, (Bride’s Name).

Bride: I love you, (Groom’s Name).

Groom: I want you for my wife, that we may share our lives with each other.

Bride: I want you for my husband, that our love may be sanctified by

this ceremony.

Groom: I promise to put you first in my life, knowing that our love is my

most precious possession.

Bride: I promise to put you first in my life, believing that all other

achievements pale beside a happy marriage.

Groom: I will share with you my joys, my sorrows, my hopes and my

dreams.

Bride: I will bring to you my accomplishments and my failures.

Groom: I will be faithful to you always.

Bride: And I will be faithful to you.

Groom: From this day forward, I will walk beside you. 

When we are apart, my thoughts will be with you.

Bride: From this day forward, we stand together. 

Whatever happens to either of us will be confronted by both.

Groom: I gladly make these promises. I am proud to be your husband.

Bride: I gladly make these promises. I am proud to be your wife.

Groom: Our vows are ended; our marriage has begun.

Bride: Let us go with joy into our new life together.

Groom: This is a day of rejoicing.

Bride: We rejoice in the goodness of love.

Groom: Because I love you, I promise to respect your wishes and  opinions.

Bride: Because I love you, I promise to put our marriage above all else.

Groom: I will share with you my material goods, my thoughts, and my feelings.

Bride: I will share with you my material goods, my thoughts, and my feelings.

Groom: I promise to do all that I can to keep our relationship special to both of us.

Bride: I will cherish our time together. I will try to keep our home peaceful and          harmonious.

Groom: I will encourage you to grow and to become all that you are

capable of becoming.

Bride: I will urge you to meet whatever challenges you may face.

Groom: I promise to be faithful to you in thought, word, and act.

Bride: I promise to be faithful to you in thought, word, and act. 

This is a day of rejoicing.

Groom: We rejoice in the goodness of love.

VOW 10

Groom: Today is a new beginning. It is the start of a new way of life.

Bride: We don't know what challenges lie ahead.  We know only that we

will face them together.

Groom: Because of you, I am a better person than I once was.

Bride: I promise always to see the good in you.

Groom: I will try to be worthy of your love and trust.

Bride: Because of you, I am a better person than I once was.

Groom: I promise always to see the good in you.

Bride: I will try to be worthy of your love and trust.

Groom: Before God and these witnesses, I vow to be loyal to you in every

way, to comfort you, to cherish you, and always to love you.

Bride: Before God and these witnesses, I vow to be loyal to you in every

way, to comfort you, to cherish you, and always to love you.

Groom: Today is a new beginning.

Bride: Our new life together has begun.

Groom: Love is more than an emotion. It is a way of life.

Bride: Love is more than a feeling. It is a channel through which all

feelings flow.

Groom: When I offer you my love, I offer all that is important in my life.

Bride: When I offer you my love, I let all of my deepest feelings flow

toward you.

Groom: Marriage is more than a ceremony. This service lasts less than an

hour but marriage is a lifetime of living together.

Bride: Marriage is more than a promise.

It is a promise kept; it is words translated into action.

Groom: As we begin living our promises, I pledge to you my love and

loyalty. I will share with you all that is important to me. I will encourage

peace and happiness between us.

Bride: As we begin living our promises, I pledge to you my love and

loyalty. I will share with you all that is important to me. I will encourage

peace and happiness between us.

VOW 11

Bride: I, (Bride’s Name), take you, (Groom’s Name), to be my husband.

I promise to be true to you always, in sickness and in health, in poverty or

wealth, in my thoughts and in my speaking.  I will be your dearest friend,

your lover, and the mother of your children.  With these vows, I commit

myself to you.

Groom: I, (Groom’s Name), take you, (Bride’s Name), to be my wife.  I

promise to be true to you always, in sickness and in health, in poverty or

wealth, in my thoughts and in my speaking.  I will be your dearest friend,

your lover, and the father of your children.  With these vows, I

commit myself to you.

 

VOW 12

Minister:  Marriage is an act of faith. It requires great trust to pledge ones

self to a lifetime with another person. Today (Groom’s Name) and

(Bride’s Name) demonstrate their faith and trust by pledging their love to

each other.

(Groom’s Name), what promises do you make to (Bride’s Name)?

Groom: (Bride’s Name), I affirm you now as my life partner. I promise to

stay with you in times of celebration and in times of mourning. I promise

to love you, honor you, and be faithful to you. I accept you, without

reservation, as my wife.

Minister: (Bride’s Name), what promises do you make to

(Groom’s Name)?

Bride: (Groom’s Name), I affirm you now as my life partner. I promise to

stay with you in times of celebration and in times of mourning. I promise

to love you, honor you, and be faithful to you. I accept you, without

reservation, as my husband.

Minister: By the promises they've made, (Groom’s Name) and (Bride’s

Name) have demonstrated their belief in love, in marriage, and in each

other.  They ask now for the blessing of all who have witnessed their

vows.  If you believe in their love and approve their marriage, please

applaud.

VOW 13

Groom: I promise to live in such a way that I will never bring dishonor

or heartache into our marriage.

Bride: I promise to keep our home a sanctuary of love, contentment

and compassionate understanding.

Groom: I pledge to you my patience, my honesty, and my faith in the

rightness of our love.

Bride: I pledge to you my patience, my honesty, and my faith in the

rightness of our love.

Groom: To the best of my ability, I will be your friend, your helpmate,

your counselor and your sweetheart.

Bride: To the best of my ability, I will be your friend, your helpmate,

your counselor and your sweetheart.

Groom: I love you and I want to be your husband.

Bride: I love you and I want to be your wife.

 

VOW 14

Groom: Love thrives on honesty. I promise always to be truthful with you.

Bride: Love is nourished by thoughtfulness. I promise that my actions will

reflect my high regard for you.

Groom: I believe that the power of love can change lives. 

My life is changed because I love you.

Bride: Love can bring joy, hope and strength. 

Our love has brought all of those to me.

Groom: I promise that the home we are founding today will have love at

its core.  I will do all that I can to nourish and enrich our love for each

other.

Bride: I promise that the home we are founding today will have love at its

core.  I will do all that I can to nourish and enrich our love for each other.

VOW 15

Bride: I love you for looking at me and seeing only the best.

Groom: I love you for listening to me and hearing only the good.

I will strive to become what you think I am.

Bride: In our times together, I promise to see you always through the eyes

of love.

Groom: In our times together, I promise to see you always through the

eyes of love.

 

VOW 16

Bride: I never meant to love so much. I meant to keep my emotions under control because I didn't want to be vulnerable.

Groom: I never meant to love so much.  I intended to be rational and calm.

Bride: I thought I could care, but within boundaries.

Groom: I thought I could love, but with limitations.

Bride: I meant to let you be one part of my life; instead you have become more important than life itself.

Groom: I meant to keep our love in its own compartment; instead it has overflowed the boundaries into everything I say and do and feel.

Bride: I meant to be cautious.

Groom: I meant to stay uncommitted.

Bride: Now, because I do care so much, I am vulnerable. And I do not mind.

Groom: I joyfully accept the commitments of marriage.

Bride: From this day forward, I promise to love you willingly and completely, withholding nothing.

Groom: From this day forward, I promise to love you willingly and

completely, withholding nothing.

Bride: I never meant to love so much, but it has happened.  And I am glad.

Groom: It has happened. And I am glad.

 

VOW 17

Groom: I take you, (Bride’s Name), to be my wife.

I join with you to share all that is to come.

Bride: I take you, (Groom’s Name), to be my husband.

I join with you to share all that is to come.

Groom: I will be faithful to you as long as God gives us life together. 

Each rising sun will find you by my side.

Bride: I will be faithful to you as long as God gives us life together. 

Each rising sun will find you by my side.

Groom: I will treasure our new life above all else.

Bride: I will treasure our new life above all else. 

All that I am, and all that I ever hope to be, is yours.

Groom: All that I am, and all that I ever hope to be, is yours.

VOW 18 (Episcopal Vows)

Groom:

In the name of God, I, (name), take you, (name), to be my wife,
to have and to hold from this day forward,
for better or worse, for richer or poorer,
in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish,
until we are parted by death.
This is my solemn vow.

Bride:
In the name of God, I, (name), take you, (name), to be my husband,
to have and to hold from this day forward,
for better or worse, for richer or poorer,
in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish,
until we are parted by death.

VOW 19 (I Love you)

I love you.
I pledge to grow in my Love for you.
I pledge to nurture our Love for it is
loving you that nurtures my soul.

I pledge to share our Love together as One.
I love you because you are the only one for me.
To know you is to know Love
- and through you, know True Love.

I love you because you are the One who completes me.
I can not know union without you
- for it is by joining you that I learn
about Love's union and where it comes from.

I love you because it is my soul mission in Life to learn our Love.
I do not so much seek to heal you,
but to embrace our Love that fills our Life as a way of healing each other.
I see your Love for me in your eyes and I see what freedom is,
what True Love is.

I promise to support your growth and share the fullness of myself.
I promise to honor you by being open to all the expressions of your inner self.
I promise to allow our Love we share become our Prayer we live.
Above all, I promise to be true to you and true to myself
so that we may grow in our Love that joins us as one.

If the Eagle is the symbol of freedom born out of True Love,
then I am one wing and you are equally the other.
Let us fly together in harmony and may
gentle winds carry us all the way to Heaven.

VOW 20

I prayed to God for a companion who could understand me and accept me as I am and for a special friend who would share laughter and tears - and he sent you.

Grooms Vows:

 [Brides name], I promise to love you with all my heart, mind and strength. I promise to be faithful, now and forever. I also promise to respect your children and treat them as if they were my own. I gladly accept the obligations that go along with this pledge. I care for your children and want them to be a part of my life.

I prayed to God for a companion who could understand me and accept me as I am and for a special friend who would share laughter and tears - and he sent you.

Brides Vows:

With continued love, friendship, trust and communication, I [Brides name] take you today in committing my life to yours. [Grooms name] when you need me I will be there and when your strength fails you, may mine always be there for you. Side by side, step by step, may our great journey together begin, here now from this day forward.

VOW 21

My beloved, romance may fade, but true love endures.
I choose to truly love you, with kindness, faithfulness, and respect,
through every circumstance that life may bring.

Because you are the treasure of my heart,
it will be my joy to support, encourage, comfort, and defend you
as we together face the coming days of sorrow and joy,
sickness and health, poverty and wealth.

When I have been wronged, I will forgive.
When I do wrong, I will confess with contrition.
When conflict dims our days, I will exercise the patience of true love
and seek the light of wise counsel.

Most of all, I will rejoice and thank the Lord
for completing me with the gift of you.
And through His infinite grace, I know that no matter what may come,
I will remain by your side with enduring devotion and fidelity
for as long as He allows us to share this earthly life.

This is my solemn vow because, in you, I have found the one my soul loves.
May the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit guide us
and bless us each day from this moment forward

 VOW 22

I, [Groom's name], take you [Bride's name], to be my wife, my partner in life and my one true love.
I will cherish our friendship and love you today, tomorrow, and forever.
I will trust you and honor you
I will laugh with you and cry with you.
I will love you faithfully
Through the best and the worst,
Through the difficult and the easy.
What may come I will always be there.
As I have given you my hand to hold
So I give you my life to keep
So help me God

I, [Bride's name], take you [Groom's name], to be my husband, my partner in life and my one true love.
I will cherish our friendship and love you today,
tomorrow, and forever
I will trust you and honor you
I will laugh with you and cry with you.
I will love you faithfully
Through the best and the worst,
Through the difficult and the easy.
What may come I will always be there.
As I have given you my hand to hold
So I give you my life to keep
So help me God

In unison:
Entreat me not to leave you, or to return from following after you,
For where you go I will go,
and where you stay I will stay
Your people will be my people,
and your God will be my God.
And where you die, I will die and there I will be buried.