Wedding Vows
Could you give us a range of different ways of exchanging vows?
posted by Jim Noonan @ 7:20 PM
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posted by Jim Noonan @ 7:20 PM
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At 7:28 PM,
Jim Noonan said…
Try the following choices for your vows:
Alternative Wordings for Marriage Vows
1. I, N take you N as my wife. / 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 / for the rest of my life.
2. N. I want to be with you always just as you are. / I choose you above all others to share my life with me in Marriage. / I love you for yourself / and I want you to become all that you can be. / I promise this to you with all my heart as long as I live.
3. N. As we stand in the garden among the flowers, / I offer you the flower of my heart as my wedding gift to you. / This flower is pure and innocent, beautiful, eternal. / It needs the care and nourishment that only you can give it./ Place this flower within your own heart; / love it ; keep it safe; and give it light; / and may it bloom forever from this day forward / as I commit it to you with my eternal love / as your husband.
4. N. it is you that I love and who’s hand I do now hold, / and promise this day to marry. / It is you / whom I will rejoice to love forever. / I pledge to be at your side / when prosperity makes us secure, / and when ill winds chill our hopes. / I love you because you are you / and that will never change!
5. N., my love, I offer myself to you as your husband. / I offer everything I am, / everything I have / and everything I hope to be./ I consider it an honour and a privilege / to be the one you have chosen as your life partner / and I promise to be a true and faithful husband, / to love you, respect you / and be honest with you always. / I vow to be supportive of your goals and aspirations /and to return your love in full / as we grow together as man and wife. I entrust myself to your heart / on this, our sacred wedding day, / and for tomorrow, / and for all the days to come.
6. I take this opportunity N to express my love for you. / I am looking forward to sharing with you / the great gifts life has to offer, / and its enduring challenges. / When our lives come to an end, / I hope we are still holding hands, / and we can look back and say to ourselves “We had a great life, / and gave it our best.”
7. I, N take you N to be my wife /
All that I am, I give to you. /
All that I have, I share with you. /
I will stand by you and support you, / whatever the future may hold. /
I promise to love you for the rest of my life.
8. N, I declare my love for you. / I invite you to share my life as my wife. / I promise always to respect you needs / and to accept you as you are. / I will try to be kind, unselfish and trusting. / I will work for a happy life for both of us.
9. I N take you N to be my partner / from this day forward / in good times and in bad times / and give you my loyalty, love and respect.
At 11:50 AM,
Ron Doyle said…
G'day, Jim,
I am a Celebrant and, like you, was offering an range of vows to my couples.
The A.G's office have now specified that the vow as set out in the Marriage Act, 1961 is the vow to be used with only very minor variations to the words but the couple can dd words to extend the vow if they wish.
I found this out at a workshop covering the compulsory element of our OPD for 2005-6.
Regards,
Ron Doyle, C.M.c., J.P. (N.S.W.)
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