Bridal Club Magazine

What Is In A Wedding Vow?

There has been talk of wedding vows in the Discussion Forum at the NZ Wedding Planner. A tad of research has revealed some more traditional vows to share with you. Read, enjoy and modify to make yours truly special to you and your fiancé.

I take you ____________ to be my wedded wife/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, till death us do part, and thereto I pledge you my faith and love.

I take you ____________ to be my wedded wife/husband. I pledge that I will love you and tenderly care for you in sickness and in health, when life is peaceful and when it is in disorder. I will honour your goals and your dreams, and help you to realise them. And I vow to share my life with you through the best and worst of what is to come.

I take you ____________to be my wedded wife/husband. I promise to be faithful to you, to give and to receive, to care and console, to inspire and respond, loving you now, but even more in your growing and becoming. I will love you when we are together and when we are apart, when life is peaceful and in disorder, when I am proud of you and when I am disappointed in you, in times of leisure and in times of work. I will honour your goals and dreams, and help you to realise them. I will be open and honest with you, and join with you in seeking the fulfilment of our lives with God as my help.

I take you ____________ to be my wedded wife/husband, and these things I promise you: I will respect, trust, help, and care for you; I will share my life with you; I will forgive you as we have been forgiven; and I will try with you better to understand ourselves, the world, and God; through the best and the worst of what is to come as long as we live.

____________, I take you as my wife/husband. I pledge to share my life openly with you, to speak the truth to you in love. I promise to honour and tenderly care for you, to cherish and encourage your own fulfilment as an individual through all the changes of our lives.

I ____________ promise to love and cherish you ___________, Today I take you as my wife/husband. I promise to give you my strength, to help you in good times and bad, to respect our individuality, to make our home one of love and understanding. I give you all of my trust, all of my tomorrows, all of my life.