Wedding Vow Ideas
Some of these may be inspiration to write your own vows. Some of them may be more inspirational than something you want to say out loud at your wedding. We can always work the sentiment into something that works well for you.
Vow Idea 1
From The Vow
I vow to help you love life, to always hold you with tenderness and to have the patience that love demands, to speak when words are needed and to share the silence when they are not, to agree to disagree on red velvet cake, and to live within the warmth of your heart and always call it home.
I vow to fiercely love you in all your forms, now and forever. I promise to never forget that this is a once in a lifetime love. And to always know in the deepest part of my soul that no matter what challenges might carry us apart, we will always find our way back to each other.
I vow to help you love life, to always hold you with tenderness and to have the patience that love demands, to speak when words are needed and to share the silence when they are not, to agree to disagree on red velvet cake, and to live within the warmth of your heart and always call it home.
I vow to fiercely love you in all your forms, now and forever. I promise to never forget that this is a once in a lifetime love. And to always know in the deepest part of my soul that no matter what challenges might carry us apart, we will always find our way back to each other.
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Vow Idea 2
I know that I am here today as the officiant of your wedding. However, that is really just to make it legal. What you are really doing today is making a public proclamation of your love. Here, in front of these witnesses who will hopefully stand by you. And, even beyond that, you are here to make these promises to each other.
What I’d like the two of you to do now is to take each others hands (if you haven’t already) and look into each other’s eyes - because it is nearly impossible to look into each other’s eyes and lie. But even more so, by looking into each other’s eyes you are looking into each other’s soul’s. That is where your love for each other truly flows from. Take this time to have your souls speak in their language as I speak these words...
Bride and Groom, Do you choose to be husband and wife?
Do You promise to give the best of yourselves
and to ask for no more than you can give?
Do you promise to respect
one another as your own person and to realize
that your interests, needs and desires
are no less important than the other’s?
Do you promise to share your
time and attention,
and to bring joy, strength and imagination
to your relationship?
Do you promise to keep yourselves open to each other,
to allow the other see through the windows of your world and
into your innermost fears and feelings,
secrets and dreams?
Do you promise to grow along alongside each other,
willing to face changes
as you both change
in order to keep your relationship alive and exciting?
Do you promise to love one another in good times and in bad,
with all you have to give,
and all you feel inside,
in the only way you know how ...
completely and forever?
Groom, do you take Bride to be your wife?
Bride do you take Groom to be your husband?
What I’d like the two of you to do now is to take each others hands (if you haven’t already) and look into each other’s eyes - because it is nearly impossible to look into each other’s eyes and lie. But even more so, by looking into each other’s eyes you are looking into each other’s soul’s. That is where your love for each other truly flows from. Take this time to have your souls speak in their language as I speak these words...
Bride and Groom, Do you choose to be husband and wife?
Do You promise to give the best of yourselves
and to ask for no more than you can give?
Do you promise to respect
one another as your own person and to realize
that your interests, needs and desires
are no less important than the other’s?
Do you promise to share your
time and attention,
and to bring joy, strength and imagination
to your relationship?
Do you promise to keep yourselves open to each other,
to allow the other see through the windows of your world and
into your innermost fears and feelings,
secrets and dreams?
Do you promise to grow along alongside each other,
willing to face changes
as you both change
in order to keep your relationship alive and exciting?
Do you promise to love one another in good times and in bad,
with all you have to give,
and all you feel inside,
in the only way you know how ...
completely and forever?
Groom, do you take Bride to be your wife?
Bride do you take Groom to be your husband?
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Vow Idea 3
From the Corpse Bride
With this hand, I will lift your sorrows. Your cup will never be empty, for I will be your wine. With this candle, I will light your way into darkness. With this ring, I ask you to be mine.
With this hand, I will lift your sorrows. Your cup will never be empty, for I will be your wine. With this candle, I will light your way into darkness. With this ring, I ask you to be mine.
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Vow Idea 4
My commitment to you is one if give willingly, absolutely, and without hesitation. I am yours utterly and have been since the moment we met. We were married before this day and will always be.
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Vow Idea 5
My dear beloved. Today I am yours and you are mine, forever. My love for you is so strong that it feels limitless, boundless, able to weather any storm. I promise today to you that should storms come, I will be your shelter. I will comfort you if you are sick, keep you warm if you are cold, and find laughter and joy with you if times are hard. This is my promise to you, for now and forever.
Vow Idea 6
This is the start of our new life together. Tomorrow we will be a married couple, off on a brand new adventure. And like any good adventure, there are sure to be beautiful new things we've never seen before, unknown wonders we could never anticipate and exciting challenges. But even when our strength is tested, I know that we will persevere and our adventure will be even more wonderful than the journey that brought us to this place. I promise to always stay faithfully by your side, to be honest, loving and true, and most importantly to always, just in the nick of time, help you escape from fiery pits, imminent avalanches, or crocodile-infested rivers before the end credits roll.
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Vow Idea 7
In the name of God, I, (groom/bride's name), take you, (groom/bride's name), to be my (husband/wife), 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, until we are parted by death. This is my solemn vow.
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Vow Idea 8
Today I pledge to you what has already been yours for so long - my eternal love.
As we have always done, I promise to walk hand-in-hand with you through life's journeys.
No matter what lies in our path, it will be our path, together.
In the joys and troubles that lie ahead of us, I will be faithful and loving to you.
This is my solemn vow.
As we have always done, I promise to walk hand-in-hand with you through life's journeys.
No matter what lies in our path, it will be our path, together.
In the joys and troubles that lie ahead of us, I will be faithful and loving to you.
This is my solemn vow.
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Vow Idea 9
Do you, Bride/Groom, promise to give Groom/Bride,
Your deepest love, and your truest thoughts,
As you create a home together that is a place of joy and comfort,
being his/her faithful champion, partner, and best friend?
Your deepest love, and your truest thoughts,
As you create a home together that is a place of joy and comfort,
being his/her faithful champion, partner, and best friend?
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Vow Idea 10
Today I pledge to you my eternal love.
I promise to be your lover, your friend, your confidant.
I promise to respect and appreciate our differences, to be open and honest, especially around things that are difficult to say.
I promise to give you the freedom to be yourself, and to explore your world.
I promise to trust in our growth, and our ability to change and discover new adventures together.
In all that life may bring us, my love is yours.
I promise to be your lover, your friend, your confidant.
I promise to respect and appreciate our differences, to be open and honest, especially around things that are difficult to say.
I promise to give you the freedom to be yourself, and to explore your world.
I promise to trust in our growth, and our ability to change and discover new adventures together.
In all that life may bring us, my love is yours.
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Vow Idea 11
From the moment I first saw you, I knew you were the one with whom I wanted to share my life. Your beauty, heart, and mind inspire me to be the best person I can be. I promise to love you for eternity, respecting you, honoring you, being faithful to you, and sharing my life with you. This is my solemn vow.
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Vow Idea 12
Today I become your husband and you become my wife. I will strive to give you the best of myself while accepting you the way you are. I promise to respect you as a whole person with your own interests, desires, and needs, and to realize that those are sometimes different, but no less important than my own. I promise to keep myself open to you, to let you into my innermost fears and feelings, secrets and dreams. I promise to grow along with you, to be willing to face change as we both change, keeping our relationship alive and exciting. And finally, I promise to love you in good times and in bad, with all I have to give and all that I am, in the only way I know how -- completely and forever.
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Vow Idea 13
I, (name), take you, (name), to be my partner, loving what I know of you, and trusting what I do not yet know. I eagerly anticipate the chance to grow together, getting to know the (man/woman) you will become, and falling in love a little more every day. I promise to love and cherish you through whatever life may bring us.
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Vow Idea 14
Today, as I take you to be my wife, I trust you completely with all my love.
I will love you through good and the bad, through joy and the sorrow.
I will try to be understanding, and to trust in you completely.
Together we will face all of life's experiences and share one another's dreams and goals.
I promise I will be your equal partner in a loving, honest relationship, for as long as we both shall live.
I will love you through good and the bad, through joy and the sorrow.
I will try to be understanding, and to trust in you completely.
Together we will face all of life's experiences and share one another's dreams and goals.
I promise I will be your equal partner in a loving, honest relationship, for as long as we both shall live.
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Vow Idea 15
From this day forward I promise you these things. I will laugh with you in times of joy and comfort you in times of sorrow. I will share in your dreams and support you as you strive to achieve your goals. I will listen to you with compassion and understanding, and speak to you with encouragement. I will remain faithful to our vows for better or for worse, in times of sickness and health. You are my best friend and I will love and respect you always.
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Vow Idea 16
I take you as my partner...I take you as my partner, my friend, and my love.
My hopes and dreams will now be intermingled with yours.
I will seek to balance my needs with those of our community and family.
I will openly draw from our combined experience and feelings in our search for truth and meaning.
I will strive for harmony through compromise and understanding.
I will be forgiving, but not complacent.
From this day forward, I take shared responsibility
for our marriage, family, community and myself,
regardless of our successes or failures.
I promise to be faithful and true to you in mind,
body, and spirit; to cherish you and respect you;
and to be a source of comfort and encouragement,
free and bound by our love, as long as we shall live.
My hopes and dreams will now be intermingled with yours.
I will seek to balance my needs with those of our community and family.
I will openly draw from our combined experience and feelings in our search for truth and meaning.
I will strive for harmony through compromise and understanding.
I will be forgiving, but not complacent.
From this day forward, I take shared responsibility
for our marriage, family, community and myself,
regardless of our successes or failures.
I promise to be faithful and true to you in mind,
body, and spirit; to cherish you and respect you;
and to be a source of comfort and encouragement,
free and bound by our love, as long as we shall live.
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Vow Idea 17
On this day do you affirm the love that the two of you share, looking to the future to deepen and strengthen it? Will you affirm that love in plenty and in want, in sickness and in health, in failure and in triumph. Together will you dream and break bread? When you stumble will you restore one another? Will you share all things, serving one another and your fellow man? Will you cherish and respect, comfort and encourage one another? Be open with one another, and stay with one another as long as you both shall live, bound by your love?
Groom do you choose Bride to be your wife, your friend, and your love?
Bride, do you choose Groom to be your husband your friend, and your love?
Groom do you choose Bride to be your wife, your friend, and your love?
Bride, do you choose Groom to be your husband your friend, and your love?
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Vow Idea 18
Bride and Groom, do you, with your family and friends as your witnesses, present yourselves willingly and of your own accord to be joined in marriage?
We do
Will you promise to care for each other in the joys and sorrows of life, come what may, and to share the responsibility for growth and enrichment of your life together?
We will
Groom, please repeat after me.
I, ____, take you ____, to be my wedded wife
I give to you in the presence of 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
We do
Will you promise to care for each other in the joys and sorrows of life, come what may, and to share the responsibility for growth and enrichment of your life together?
We will
Groom, please repeat after me.
I, ____, take you ____, to be my wedded wife
I give to you in the presence of 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
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Vow Idea 19
Groom, do you take Bride to be your best friend, your faithful partner and one true love? Do you promise to encourage and inspire her and to love her truly through good times and bad? Will you be there forever? to laugh with her, to lift her up when she’s down and to love her unconditionally through all your adventures in life together?
Bride, do you take Groom to be your best friend, your faithful partner and one true love? Do you promise to encourage and inspire him and to love him truly through good times and bad? Will you be there forever? to laugh with him, to lift him up when he’s down and to love him unconditionally through all your adventures in life together?
Bride, do you take Groom to be your best friend, your faithful partner and one true love? Do you promise to encourage and inspire him and to love him truly through good times and bad? Will you be there forever? to laugh with him, to lift him up when he’s down and to love him unconditionally through all your adventures in life together?
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Vow Idea 20
I Choose you
To be no other than yourself,
Loving what I know of you
And Trusting who you will become,
I will respect and honor you
Always and in All Ways
With you I pledge to repair
One small piece of the world.
I take you to be my spouse,
To have and to hold
In tears and in laughter
In sickness and in health
To love and to cherish
From this day forward,
In this world and the next.
To be no other than yourself,
Loving what I know of you
And Trusting who you will become,
I will respect and honor you
Always and in All Ways
With you I pledge to repair
One small piece of the world.
I take you to be my spouse,
To have and to hold
In tears and in laughter
In sickness and in health
To love and to cherish
From this day forward,
In this world and the next.
