4a
From this day forward
I will be here for you --
I will sing your joys,
cry your sorrows
and stand by your side
through whatever life
may bring your way.
From this day forward
through good times and bad --
I will live with you,
grow and change with you,
I will do all I can
to keep our marriage
strong and happy
and alive with possibilities.
From this day forward
I will cherish you --
I will look with joy
down the path of our tomorrows,
and find peace
and happiness knowing
we will walk it together
side by side,
heart to heart.
4b
Male:
I, _____, take you, ______, to be my wedded wife. With deepest joy I
receive you into my life that together we may be one. As is Christ to His
body, the church, so I will be to you a loving and faithful husband.
Always will I perform my headship over you even as Christ does over me,
knowing that His Lordship is one of the holiest desires for my life. I
promise you my deepest love, my fullest devotion, my tenderest care. I
promise I will live first unto God rather than others or even you. I
promise that I will lead our lives into a life of faith and hope in Christ
Jesus. Ever honoring God's guidance by His spirit through the Word, And so
throughout life, no matter what may lie ahead of us, I pledge to you my
life as a loving and faithful husband.
Female:
I, _____, take you, ______, to be my wedded husband. With deepest joy
I come into my new life with you. As you have pledged to me your life and
love, so I too happily give you my life, and in confidence submit myself
to your headship as to the Lord. As is the church in her relationship to
Christ, so I will be to you. _____, I will live first unto our God and
then unto you, loving you, obeying you, caring for you and ever seeking to
please you.
God has prepared me for you and so I will ever strengthen, help, comfort, and encourage you. Therefore, throughout life, no matter what may be ahead of us, I pledge to you my life as an obedient and faithful wife.
4c
Male:
I love you, _____, and I know that God has ordained this love. Because
of this I desire to be your husband. Together we will be vessels for His
service in accordance with His plan, so that in all areas of our life
Christ will have the pre-eminence. Through the pressures of the present
and the uncertainties of the future, I promise to be faithful to you. I
promise to love, guide, and protect you as Christ does His Church, and as
long as we both are alive. According to Ephesians 5 and with His enabling
power, I promise to endeavor to show to you the same kind of love as
Christ showed the Church when He died for her, and to love you as a part
of myself because in His sight we shall be one.
Female:
I love you, ____ and I know that you love me. Because of this I desire
to be your wife. For _ years I have prayed that God would lead me to His
choice and I am confident that His will is being fulfilled tonight.
Through the pressures of the present and the uncertainties of the future
I promise to be faithful to you. I will love, serve, and obey you as long
as we both are alive. Christ told us that the wife must submit herself
unto her own husband as unto the Lord. For as Christ is Head of His Church
so is the husband head of his wife. _____, I submit myself to you.
4d
Male:
I _____, take you ______, to be my wedded wife. 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. And
hereto I pledge you my faithfulness.
Female:
I, _____, take you ______, to be my wedded 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 do
us part. And hereto I pledge you my faithfulness.
4e
Male:
_____, we read in Genesis, "Therefore shall a man leave his father and
mother and cleave unto his wife," and in Proverbs "Whoso findeth a wife
findeth a good thing." He has ordained that the husband be the head of the
wife. He instructs me, as the one who will be your husband, to love you as
Christ loves the Church. It is my desire and delight to follow this
scriptural teaching. With all my heart, I make this pledge to you.
Female:
______, the Lord instructs me as the one who will be your wife to
submit to you as unto Him. Our Father created woman to be man's helper.
It is my desire and delight to follow this scriptural teaching. With all
my heart I make this pledge to you.
4f
Male:
______, I love you. Today is a very special day. Long ago you were
just a dream and a prayer. This day like a dream come true the Lord
Himself has answered that prayer. For today, ______, you as my joy become
my crown. I thank Jesus for the honor of going through time with you.
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. Today I give to you me.
Female:
______, I love you and I know you love me. I am confident that God
has chosen you to be my husband. It is my prayer and desire that you
will find in me the helpmeet God designed especially for you, and in
confidence I will submit myself unto your headship as unto our Lord.
Therefore, _____, I pledge to you my life as an obedient, faithful and
loving wife. Whither thou goest I will go, whither thou lodgest I will
lodge, Thy people shall be my people, And thy God my God.
4g
Male:
I, ______, take you ______, to be my wedded 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 do us part,
or the Lord comes for His own, and hereto I pledge you my faithfulness.
Female:
I, _____, take you ______, to be my wedded 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 land to cherish, till death do
us part, or the Lord comes for His own, and hereto I pledge you my
faithfulness.
4h
Male:
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 building a Christian home, I will look to Christ as Head of our home as
I have looked to Him as Head of the Church. 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 God's grace, trusting in Him, so long as we both shall live.
Female:
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, cherish and obey you always. As we enter upon the privileges
and joys of life's most holy relationship and begin together the great
adventure of building a Christian home, I will look to you as head of our
home as I have looked to Christ as Head of the Church. 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 God's grace, trusting in Him, so long as we both
shall live.
4i
Male:
______, as we stand before both God and man making public our
commitment to one another, I wish to make it known that I recognize
God's authority over my life which is exercised from His loving heart.
He has chosen me to be one of His own, and has since been my life. I
recognize also that He has blessed me, and entrusted to me your life as
an unearned gift. In recognition of these things, I, _____, take you,
_____, to be my wife. I purpose to love you with His love, to provide for
your needs through His enablement, and to lead you as He leads me, as
long as He gives me life, regardless of circumstances. ______, I look
forward to establishing a home where Christ is glorified. Toward that end
I promise to allow God to use you in my life as He sees best in building
me into His person. I thank Him for your love and friendship.
Female:
I ______, take you, ______, to be my husband. With the greatest joy I
come into my new life with you. Today I am reminded of James l:17 which
says "Every good thing bestowed and every perfect gift is from above,
coming down from the Father of lights with whom there is no variation or
shifting shadow." Besides the gift of salvation, you are the most precious
gift God has given me. I know that along with the new joys God has given
me, I face new responsibilities that I cannot fulfill in my own strength.
But by God's grace and power working within me, I desire to be trustworthy
as your wife, to serve and love you in all circumstances, to obey you, to
allow God to use you to build His qualities in me, as long as God give us
life on this earth. I praise God continually for you, ______, and for your
love and friendship.
4j
I, Groom/Bride, take you, Bride/Groom, to be no other than yourself
loving what I know of you trusting what I do not yet know with respect for
your integrity and faith in your love for me through all our years and in
all that life may bring us. This love we share, til' the end of time.
Fills our hearts, both yours and mine. Tears and sorrow, we also share.
Both grief and pain, we learn to bare. I vividly remember the day we met.
Your eyes were a glow, your smile was so sweet. The beauty you possessed,
ran more than skin deep. I loved you then, and I love you now. For these
words I give you, ARE MY WEDDING VOWS.
4k
_______________ do you take _______________ as your wife/husband,
will you be faithful to her/him in tender love and honor, offering
encouragement and companionship and will you live with her/him and
cherish her/him as love and respect will lead you in the bond of marriage?
4l
_______________, do you give yourself totally to loving
_______________, striving to do whatever you can to help her/him feel
happy and secure, treating her/him with kindness, understanding and
respect throughout your lives?
4m
________________ do you take this woman/man whose hand you now hold,
choosing him/her alone to be you wedded husband/wife? Will you love
her/him, comfort her/him with kindness, understanding and respect
throughout your lives?
4n
_______________, do you take this woman/man to be your wedded
wife/husband and do you promise before God and this company that you will
love her/him, comfort her/him, honor and keep her/him in sickness and in
health and that forsaking all others for her/him alone will you perform
unto her all of the duties and respect that a wife/husband owes his/her
wife/wife until God by death shall separate you?
4o
_______________, do you take _______________ to be your wedded
wife/husband? To have and to hold, to love and to cherish, in sickness
and in health, in times of good and bad?
4p
_______________, do you take _______________ to be your wedded
wife/husband, to live together in bonds of marriage? Will you love
him/her, comfort her/him, honor and keep her/him, so long as you both
shall live?
4q
_______________ will thou have this woman/man to be your wedded
wife/husband to live together after God's ordinance in the holy estate
of matrimony? Will thou love her/him, comfort her/him, honor and keep
her/him in sickness and in health and forsaking all others keep thee only
unto her/him, so long as you both shall live?
4r
_______________, do you take _______________ , to be your lawful
wedded wife/husband? Do you promise to love, honor, and protect
her/him? Share the good times and achievements as well as the hard times
and disappointments? Keep her/him in sickness and in sorrow and to be
faithful to her/him forevermore.
4s
_______________ are you willing to take _______________ to be your
loving wife/husband, do you promise to love, honor and cherish her/him
and to comfort her/him in sickness and in sorrow and to be faithful to
her/him forevermore?
4t
______________ will thou have this woman/man to be thy wedded
wife/husband to live together in the holy estate of matrimony? Will thou
lover her/him, comfort her/him, honor and keep her/him, in sickness and
in health; forsaking all other keep thee only unto her/him so long as you
both shall live?
4u
_______________ will you have _______________ to be your lawful wedded
wife/husband? Will you lover her/him, comfort her/him, keep her/him in
sickness and in health and forsaking all others be faithful to her/him so
long as you both shall live?
4v
______________ and _______________, have you come here freely and
without reservation to give yourselves to each other in marriage? Will you
love and honor each other as man and wife for the rest of your lives?
4w
I _______________, take you _______________,/ to be my wedded
wife/husband/ to have and to hold/ from this day forward/ for better, for
worse/ for richer or for poorer/ in sickness and in health/ to love and to
cherish/now and forever/.
4x
I _______________, take you _______________/ to be my wedded
wife/husband/ to love and to cherish/ from this day forward.
4y
I call upon these persons here present/ to witness that
I, _______________ do take thee, _______________/ to be my lawful wedded
wife/husband.
4z
I, _______________, take thee, _______________ to be my wedded
wife/husband/to have and to hold/ from this day forward/ for
better, for worst/ for richer, for poorer/ in sickness and in health/
to love and to cherish/till death do us part/ and thereto I pledge thee
my faith.
4aa
I, ________________, take thee _______________, to be my wedded
wife/husband/ to have and to hold from this day forward, for better or
worse/ for richer for poorer/ in sickness and in health/ to love and to
cherish.
4bb
I, _______________/ in the presence of God and these witnesses/take
you _____________ to be my wife/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/ until death parts us/ and I pledge
you my faithfulness.
4cc
I, _______________ take you _______________/ for my lawful
wife/husband/ from this day forward/ to have and to hold/ as equal
partner/ in my life/ to whom I give/ my deepest love and respect/ I
humbly open my heart to you/ as sanctuary of warmth and peace/ where you
may find/ a refuge of love and strength.
4dd
I _______________ take you _______________/ to be my wedded
wife/husband/ to have and to hold/ from this day forward/ for better or
for worse/ for richer or for poorer/ in sickness and in health/ to love
and to cherish/ until death do us part.
4ee
I, _______________, take thee _______________/ to be my wedded
wife/husband/ to love and cherish/ to have and to hold/ in all experiences
of life/ and I promise/ forsaking all others/ to be faithful/ for as long
as we both shall live.
4ff
I, _______________ take you ______________/ to be my
wife/husband/I promise to be true to you/ in good time and bad/
in sickness and in health/ I will love you and honor you/ all the days of
my life.
4gg
I, _______________ pledge to you _______________/ as my friend, my
love, and my companion/ to love, honor, and cherish/ as long as we both
shall live.
4hh
I take you _______________/ to be my wife/husband from this day
forward/ to join with you and share/ all that is to come/I offer you my
love and support/ throughout all our days.
4ii
I ______________ take you _______________ to be my partner in
life/I will cherish our friendship/ and love you today, tomorrow, and
forever/ I will trust you and honor you/ I will love you faithfully/
through the best and the worst/ through the difficult and the easy/
What may come I will always be there/ As I have given you my hand to hold/
so I give you my life to keep/ so help me God.
4jj
_______________, I accept you as my wife/husband/ with your strengths
and your weaknesses/ I will be true to you in all things/ I will share
what I have/ and who I am/ I will love enough to risk being hurt/ trust
when I misunderstand/ I will keep with you in heartache/ celebrate life
with you in joy/ and receive you as my equal/ so help me God.
4kk
I _______________ take you, _______________ to be my wife/husband/
I promise to be true to you in good times and bad/ in sickness and in
health/ I will love you and honor you/ all the days of my life.
4ll
I _______________ take you, _______________ as my wedded wife/
husband/ and I promise you love, honor, and respect/ to be faithful to
you/ and not to forsake you/ until death do us part/ so help me God.
4mm
I _______________ choose you, _______________ to be my wife/husband/
my friend, my love/ the mother/father/ of our children/ I will be yours
in plenty and in want/ in sickness and in health/ in failure and in
triumph/ I will cherish you and respect you/ comfort and encourage you/
and together we shall live/ freed and bound by our love.
4nn
I offer myself to you/ as a partner in life/ I vow to love you in
sickness and health/ I am committed to encourage you/ in good times and
bad/ I will cherish and respect you/ all the days of my life/ forever
gibing thanks that we found each other.
4oo
________________, I take you as my wife/husband/ I pledge to share my
life openly with you/ to speak the truth to you in love/ I promise to
honor/ and tenderly care for you/ to cherish and encourage your own
fulfillment/through all the changes of our lives."
4pp
Thank you for coming into my life/ I have waited so long for my heart
to be glad/ for my soul to be full/ we have came so far/ against so many
odds.
4qq
"Until I met you, marriage-type love was an abstract thing I only
read about in poems, heard sung in romantic love songs, or read about
in books; but when I met you I knew for the first time what it was
to experience this type of love within my heart. You have made me a
believer in the real thing, in the promise of a love that will last a
lifetime. There is nothing more important to me in my life than your love;
I value it above money, power or position. I rejoice in our love, and I
promise to walk by your side with a constancy that only comes from
unreserved commitment, and it is this commitment I make to you now as I
take you as my husband/wife, from this day forward and so long as we both
shall live."
4rr
"As we become one on this, our wedding day, we become part of each
other: your feelings become my feelings; your sorrows become my sorrows;
your joys become my joys; your worries become my worries, and your
children become my children. I promise to be a true and faithful
husband/wife and father/mother, always there to comfort you, rejoice with
you and endure all the complexities of life that we will face together as
a family in the years to come. My love for you and the children is pure
and unshakable and I hereby commit myself to all of you from this day
forth and forevermore."
4ss
In the name if God, I,....take you .... to be my husband/wife. It is
my promise that I will seek to be there for you and for us, always: to
create, to live life fully, to encourage and to share I promise that I
will work with you for common goals, to walk hand in hand along the paths
life will unfold for us, to create a relationship that will weather any
clouds that may come our way, to communicate opemly and honestly, and to
love you faithfully, as long as we both shall live. This is my solemn vow.
4tt
I take you to be my husband/wife to laugh with you in joy; to grieve
with you in sorrow; to grow with you in love; serving mankind in peace
and hope; as long as we both shall live. From this day forward, I choose
you to be my partner in life; to live with you and laugh with you, to
stand by your side and sleep in your arms; to be joy to your heart and
food to your soul; to bring out the best in you always; and for you, to
be the most that I can. To laugh with you in the good times, to struggle
with you in the bad; to solace you when you are downhearted; to wipe your
tears with my hands; to comfort you with my body; to mirror you with my
soul; to share with you all my riches and honors; to play with you even
when ywe grow old, and always loving you sweetly and g gladly, as long as
we both shall live.
4uu
(Name of SO), I draw you unto my very being to share with you my life,
my feelings, my hopes and my experiences in times of joy and times of
trouble. I promise to give you the best of myself and to ask of you no
more than you can give. I promise to respect you as an individual 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
provide for and support you, in the hope that you will become all that you
can be. I promise to keep myself open to you, to talk and to listen.
I promise to bring joy, strength and imagination into our relationship.
And finally I promise to grow along with you through all the changes in
our lives. I have chosen you above all others, and that is the only
evidence there can be that I love you.
4vv
I, bride/groom, take you groom/bride to be my husband/wife. And these
things I promise you: I will be faithful to you with my whole life,
I will be honest with you, I will respect, trust, help and care for you,
I will share my life with you, I will forgive and strengthen you, and I
will try with you better to understand ourselves, the world, and God,
through the best and worst of what is to come Forever, and a month.
4ww
I affirm the special bond and unique relationship that exists between
us, and promise to keep it always alive. I promise to love you, comfort
and encourage you, be open and honest with you, and stay with you as long
as we both shall live.
I promise before God and these witnesses to be your loving and faithful (husband/wife) till death do us part.
I promise to love, respect and honor you, sharing your plans and interests, ideals and emotions, through all the trials and tribulations of life, as well as the joyous times, caring for you in lifelong commitment.
I promise to be your confidante, always ready to share your hopes, dreams and secrets.
4xx
Once in his life, a man finds someone that becomes more than just a
friend to him. The friendship blossoms and grows into a love that
strengthens and supports. Painful burdens get easier to bear and happy
moments stretch out and seem to last forever. Even when the relationship
is stressed, Love holds strong. It wraps itself around two people and
never lets go. It joins thier hearts and allows them each a piece of the
other's life.
I'm happy to say I've found that friend. And as I look into your eyes now I can see how our love has grown. I don't know what the future holds for us, but I do know that the love that we share has brought us this far, and with God's help I know it will continue to grow. There will be hard times, but we'll get through them. There will be happy times and we'll rejoice together. Today our lives will join as our hearts have already done, and I promise to love and protect you for as long as God gives me breath.
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Opening Remarks
Readings, Prayers, & Poetry
The Exchange of Rings
Pronouncement of the Union
The Blessing
Presentation of the Couple
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