2007-10-01T07:12:00.000-07:00

For anyone planning to get married wedding vows are a must. This is especially true for a spring wedding .Wedding Vows are promises a couple makes to each other during their wedding ceremony. Civil ceremonies often allow couples to choose their own wedding vows. Many civil wedding vows are actually adapted from the catholic tradition. This will sound familiar:

"To have and to hold, from this day forward, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness or in health, to love and to cherish 'till death do us part."

Wedding Vows can be traditional and non-traditional, religious and secular, funny and comical and of course this depends on the bride and groom. Most religions have there own wedding vows and ceremonies for e.g.in Judaism before giving the bride a ring the groom says "You are consecrated to me, through this ring, according to the religion of Moses and Israel."

Writing your own wedding vows is a very challenging task. Making it personal, poetic and romantic can be daunting. Some of the examples of commonly used wedding vows are :

I, (Bride/Groom), take you (Groom/Bride), to be my (wife/husband), to have and to hold from this day forward, for better or for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish; from this day forward until death do us part.

I, (name), take you, (name), to be my [opt: lawfully wedded] (husband/wife), my constant friend, my faithful partner and my love from this day forward. In the presence of God, our family and friends, I offer you my solemn vow to be your faithful partner in sickness and in health, in good times and in bad, and in joy as well as in sorrow. I promise to love you unconditionally, to support you in your goals, to honor and respect you, to laugh with you and cry with you, and to cherish you for as long as we both shall live.

If you want to keep it safe then you can go with the above wedding vows , make changes in them as you please, maybe add a few humorous lines. Before writing a wedding vows one should consider a few things:

1. What you say to your fiance will be remembered for ever. Like it or not it will form the bedrock of your marriage for life!!

2. Wedding vows should be personalized and doing so should not make you frustrated, angry or nervous. If so then you might need help.

3. Wedding vows with a personalized, poetic, romantic theme go a long way and remembered for ever. No wonder why people are willing to hire poets at $300/hour to write the perfect vows.

4. You get one chance to deliver your wedding vows. Rehearse it well and make sure you are prepared.

In my experience I have seen a lot of people mess up their wedding vows. Their are a few who stand out. They are good in delivery, well rehearsed and have prepared beautiful, poetic wedding vows. It is difficult for me to imagine how most of these people became so poetic overnight and therefore lead me to believe that they might have had help from somewhere or someone.
I have discovered that for poets they can write their wedding vows without much help. For the rest of us who need some help to make our wedding vows personalized, beautiful, remembered or even humorous , we need to resort to some extra help. This is a very unique book ($17 only!!!) which will help you tremendously in writing your ideal wedding vows, whether be it religious, nonreligious, humorous, romantic etc. More interestingly it is a one time investment and if you donot like it you can return it back for a 100% REFUND!!
Have a long cherish able wedding and don't forget to write personalized wedding vows..

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