Traditional Vows
I take you ,______________, to be my wife/husband and I promise before God and all who are present here to be your loving and faithful husband/wife, as long as our lives shall last. I will serve you with tenderness and respect, and encourage you to develop God’s gifts in you. (1)
I, ________________, take you, _____________, to be my wife/husband; and I promise before God and these witnesses to be your loving and faithful husband/wife; in plenty and in want; in joy and in sorrow; in sickness and in health; as long as we both shall live. (2)
Before God and these witnesses, I, ________________, take you, _______________, to be my husband/wife, and I promise to love you, and to be faithful to you as long as we both shall live. (3)
Do you, _____________, take this woman/man, _______________, to be your wife/husband, according to God’s holy decree; do you promise to be to him/her a loving and loyal husband/wife, to cherish and keep her/him in sickness and in health; and, forsaking all others, to be faithful only to him/her as long as you both shall live? (4)
Answer: I do.
_________________, will you have this woman/man to be your wife/husband to live together according to God’s decree in the holy estate of marriage? Will you love her/him, comfort her/him, honour and keep her/him, in sickness and in health, and forsaking all others, faithfully keep to her/him alone, so long as you both shall live?
Answer: I will
Join your right hands and repeat after me:
I, _____________, take you, ______________, to be my wife/husband, according to God’s holy decree: 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 do we part: and to that I pledge you my faithfulness. (5)
In the presence of God and these our Friends, I take thee to be my wife/husband, promising with Divine assistance to be unto thee a loving and faithful wife/husband as long as we both shall live. (6)
I promise to love you above all others and to value your friendship as a precious gift. I look forward to raising our family and building our relationship under the care and guidance of God. I promise to stand beside you in sickness or health, in times of prosper and decline, in peace and in turmoil, as long as we both shall live. (7)
Before God our Father who has given us the gift of love, I ___________, join with you, ____________, in the covenant of marriage. I promise to give my faithful, life-giving love to you,
and to share my life with you as long as we shall live. May this community of faith witness our love for each other for the rest of our lives. (8)
In the sight of God's love and in the presence of our families and friends, I ____________, take you, ___________ to be my husband/wife. I offer my friendship and trust in you, promising to be faithful and understanding as long as we both shall live. (9)
You are my once-in-a-lifetime, my miracle. May our lives intermingle and our love grow as we become one. You are all I could ever need in my life, my friend, my lover, my everything. I promise to be faithful to you, to love you, honour you, live with you and cherish you, according to the commandments of God, in the holy bond of marriage. (10)
I commit my love to you this day for as long as we both shall live; this love is the very flame of God and may no man dare to quench it. I promise to be faithful to you, to nurture you, to cherish you and encourage you, with the same care and concern that I give myself. I promise to help you become the person our Lord has intended you to be, and throughout our lifetime together, you will always be my beloved and my best friend. (11)
I promise to love you with an unselfish devotion. I will care for you with tenderness and I will always seek to strengthen you, comfort you, encourage you and hold you up daily in prayer before our Heavenly Father. I pledge you my faithfulness and eternal love from this day forward. (12)
I love you. Today is a very special day. Long ago you were just a dream and a prayer.
Thank you for being what you are to me. With our future as bright as the promises of God,
I will care for you, honor and protect you. I lay down my life for you my friend and my love. (13)
I love you and I know that this love is from God. Through all of the uncertainties and trials of the present and future, I promise to be faithful to you and love you. I promise to guide and protect you as Christ does his church, as long as we both shall live. (14)
I love you, and I thank the Lord for the love that has bound our hearts and lives together in spiritual fellowship of marriage. I will love, honor and cherish you always. As we enter upon the privileges and joys of life's most holy relationship, and begin together the great adventure of life. I will love you in sickness as in health, in poverty as in wealth, in sorrow as in joy, and will be true to you by so long as we both shall live. (15)
_____, I take you to be my wife/husband from this time onward, to join with you and to share all that is to come, to be your faithful husband/wife, to give and to receive, to speak and to listen, to inspire and to respond; a commitment made in love, kept in faith, and eternally made new (16)
_____, I take you to be my wife/husband. I pledge you the rest of my life, as your partner and your friend. In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen (17)
In the sight of God's love, and the presence of our families and friends, I give to you friendship and trust, guidance and support, love and compassion, promising to be faithful and understanding for as long as we both shall live. (18)
On this special day, I give to you in the presence of God and all these witnesses my promise to stay by your side, in sickness and in health, in joy and in sorrow, as well as through the good times and the bad. I promise to love you without reservation, comfort you in times of distress, encourage you to achieve all of your goals, laugh with you and cry with you, grow with you in mind and spirit, always be open and honest with you, and cherish you for as long as we both shall live. (19)