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Traditional 1.
I, _________, choose you, _________,
to be my wife and partner
from this time forward;
To love and respect you,
To be a comfort and safe haven in your life,
To hold you close,
To listen deeply when you speak,
To uphold you with my strength,
To weigh the effects of the words I speak and the things I do,
To never take you for granted,
And to always give thanks for your presence in my life.
I, _________, choose you, __________,
to be my husband and partner
from this time forward;
To love and respect you,
To be a comfort and safe haven in your life,
To hold you close,
To listen deeply when you speak,
To uphold you with my strength,
To weight the effects of the words I speak and the things I do,
To never take you for granted,
And to always give thanks for your presence in my life.
Traditional 2.
Today ________, I join my life to yours,
Not merely as your husband/wife,
But as your best friend, your lover, and your soul mate.
I promise to love you, comfort and encourage you,
Listen to you and to keep an open mind,
Be open, honest and respectful of you,
Sacrificing my pride to be your strength, your joy, and your breath,
Through all the blessings and trials of life.
Traditional 3.
I take you, ___________, to be my spouse/wife/husband
from this day forward,
to join with you and share all that is to come,
and I promise to be faithful to you until death parts us.
Traditional 4.
I take you, ______, to be my spouse/wife/husband, and these things I promise you:
I will be faithful to you and honest with 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 worst of what is to come until death parts us.
Traditional 5.
I take you, _____, to be my spouse/wife/husband.
I promise before God and these witnesses to be your faithful spouse/wife,/husband
to share with you in plenty and in want,
in joy and in sorrow,
in sickness and in health,
to forgive and strengthen you,
and to join with you so that together we may serve God and others
as long as be both shall live.
Traditional 6.
The couple face each other and join hands
The bridegroom takes the bride's right hand in his and says:
I,__________ , take you __________
to be my 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,
till death us do part,
according to God's holy law;
and this is my solemn vow.
They loose hands.
The bride takes the bridegroom's right hand in hers, and says:
I, _________, take you ___________
to be my 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,
according to God's holy law;
and this is my solemn vow.
Traditional 7.
The following vows were modified from the poem by Elizabeth Barrett Browning titled "How Do I Love Thee?".
I, __________, take you, _________, to be my wife/husband.
I promise to love you to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach...
To love you to the level of every day's most quiet need, by sun and candlelight...
To love you freely, as men strive for Right...
To love you purely, as they turn from Praise...
To love you with a passion put to use in my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith.
To love you with the breath, smiles and tears of all my life...
And if God choose, I will love you better after death.
Traditional 8.
Groom repeat after me: ”With this ring, I thee wed and with all my goods I thee endow, my name, my home, my heart, my hand, my life, my all until death doth sever the tie that binds.“
Bride, repeat after me: ”And to your gracious offer, I gladly respond, and with like taken I pledge to you the loyalty of my life, the love of my heart, and the devotion of my soul, and I promise to you, your faithful wife to ever be while along life’s path we walk together.“
Traditional 9.
At this time, I will ask you to make your vows to one another. Join right hands, please. Do you, ___________________, take this woman to be your lawful and wedded wife? Do you promise to love and cherish her in sickness and in health? To care for her above all others in prosperity and adversity and to cleave to her alone until death do you part?
Do you, ____________________, take this man to be your lawful wedded husband and do by him the part of the faithful wife? Do you promise to love and honor him above all others and in sickness and in health and prosperity and adversity and forsaking all others, cleave unto him until death do you part?
Savannah Georgia Wedding Officiant, Rev. Steven Schulte E-mail (912) 354-6815
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