Sample wedding vows, let our ministers and wedding consultans help you with your wedding vows

________________, do you take ______________ to be your husband, to love him, to cherish him, and to continually bestow upon him your heart's deepest devotion? {I do.}

And _____________________________, do you take _________________ to be your wife, to love her, to cherish her, and to continually bestow upon her your heart's deepest devotion? {I do.}

Please join hands, face one another and repeat after me: __________, you are my beloved, to love and to cherish, and to have and to hold, for richer, for poorer, for better, for worse, in sickness and in health, in sadness and in joy, to share our lives together, from this day forward. (Both bride and groom repeat these vows individually).

Alternative vows

(These can be used after the "I Do's" in place of the vows which appear in the standard ceremony) First alternative vows:

Please join hands and repeat after me: __________________, 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 honor and tenderly care for you, to cherish and encourage your own fulfillment through all the changes of our lives.

Second alternative vows:

___________, I take you as my wife/husband, to laugh with you in joy, to grieve with you in sorrow, and to grow with you in love.

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