Here are just a few examples of some vows shared by some of my other couples, just so you see how different vows are:
XXX, I love you. You are my best friend. Today I give myself to you in marriage.
I promise to … always care for you and give you the love you deserve
I promise to … agree to yet another game of monopoly, even after my fifth loss in a row
I promise to … water the plants when you’re away for longer than 30 minutes, even the fake ones
I promise to … feed the birds that fly in to our balcony when you’re away out of town
I promise to … not let work or career get in the way of our relationship
I promise to … laugh with you and cry with you – if you do one day learn how to cry
I promise to… be a true and loyal friend to you
I promise to love you in good times and in bad, when life seems easy and when it seems hard, when our love is simple, and when it is an effort.
I promise to cherish you, and to always hold you in highest regard.
These things I give to you today, and all the days of our life.
XXX, I love you. You are my best friend and today I give myself to you in marriage.
I love your intelligence, determination and kindness. You are literally the funniest person on the face of the earth and I feel so incredibly lucky to get to spend the rest of my life with you.
I promise to encourage and inspire you, to laugh with you, and to comfort you in times of sorrow and struggle.
I promise to show patience by researching things first before just doing them, and by not getting annoyed when you don’t answer me immediately because you’re still processing my question.
I promise to put you first by turning on the air conditioning when you are hot, even when my fingers have lost circulation.
I promise to show perseverance by trying really hard not to fall asleep at the best parts of the movies, and to be open to trying new shows like Boardwalk Empire even though all the characters look the same and the plot doesn’t really interest me.
I promise to stay humble by not keeping score of everything… even though we both know who’s ahead.
I promise to love you in good times and in bad, when life seems easy and when it seems hard, when our love is simple, and when it is an effort.
I promise to cherish you, and to always hold you in highest regard.
These things I give to you today, and all the days of our life.
***
XXX
I WILL marry you,
my friend,
the one I will build dreams with,
live with and love forever.
From this day forward,
I promise to be there when you need me,
to fill your days with sunshine,
to comfort you and to hold you,
I will always encourage and inspire you.
weather you want me to or not,
and to be your best friend ever…
and most of all to love you, all my life, with all my heart.
You are my favourite weirdo.
XXX, I take you to be my loving husband, best friend and soul mate.
To fall asleep with every night and wake up to every morning.
I promise to always make you laugh and have your back no matter what.
I promise to try and give you just as many kisses as the cats get and try to not yell too much when I’m hangry.
And I promise to fall in love with you more and more everyday through all of our adventures to come.
I love you.
***
XXX, the love you’ve shown me is beyond anything my childhood self could dream up.
It’s heartwarming, genuine and fierce… sometimes all at once.
At the same time, your love has taught me to find what I spent so long searching for within my own self.
For this I thank you.
Now as we stand here, wife and husband to be, and with family and friends as my witness I am making a promise to always respect you and love you (and not to touch your feet).
With kindness, unselfishness and trust I will work by your side to create a wonderful life together, no matter if we are rich or poor, tired or sick, as your husband and best friend I will be there for you no matter what.
XXX, I love you, and I take you to be my wife.
XXX, I take you to be my best friend, partner in crime, and loving husband.
To fall asleep with every night, to wake up to every morning – even when you haven’t had your morning smoke and coffee yet.
For support when you are down and to be there to dry your tears when there is dust and wind in the air; for celebrating all your achievements and milestones.
I promise, if you lose your way, to help you back again.
I promise to always do the washing so you don’t have to turn your undies inside out.
I promise to be there when you’ve got the man flu, and when you’re fighting fit, until my very last breath.
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I tell you this everyday, but what better day to repeat it than today. I love you.
I love you because you are happy and adventurous and strong willed.
XXX, I promise to love and care for you,
Always be honest with you,
To be kind, patient, and forgiving.
But most of all, I promise to be a true and loyal friend to you.
You are the love of my life, you are my best friend and I’m glad we are on the same team.
XXX, you are the part of my family I didn’t know was missing till we met. You brought laughter and strength that I didn’t know was lacking and I knew when we met an adventure was going to happen. And it brought us an extra member of our family and a whole new life in New Zealand.
Wherever our next adventures take us I promise;
To love you even on the days you drive me mad,
To respect you when we disagree,
To trust and confide in you,
To face our challenges with humour,
To support your dreams, even those that make me roll my eyes at you,
And to always be grateful that I have you by my side,
In you I found my best friend and today I choose to spend the rest of my life with you.
***
XXX, today, I join my life to yours.
From this day on, I will be your companion.
You are my dearest love and my best friend.
I look forward to our separate and shared successes.
I welcome the challenge of any obstacles we encounter, for I know that whatever we face,
we face it together.
Because your happiness is vital to me,
I will help you to grow as an individual.
Because you deserve no less than my best,
I will also strive to be more fully myself.
I pledge that I will listen to you when you speak,
encourage you in times of doubt,
comfort you in times of sorrow,
and be your refuge of strength in times of uncertainty.
I will be faithful to you all days of my life,
caring sincerely and thoughtfully for you always,
and will cherish and adore you every moment of my life.
This is my solemn vow.
There are three words that are stronger than I love you.
Today, I stand in front of you to say ‘I choose you’.
I choose you over all others.
I choose you to share happiness with.
I choose you to travel and experience the world with.
I choose you to share our highs and lows.
I choose you to laugh and cry with.
I choose you to care for.
I choose you to grow old with.
I choose you to love forever, always.
You are my happy place, my soul mate, my missing part.
Today, 1652 days after I first met you, XXX, I choose you to be my lawfully wedded husband.
I choose you.
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XXX… you took my breath away when I first saw you for the second time with your beautiful blue eyes and contagious smile.
Over the last 12 months you have gained my trust, my loyalty and my love.
Your loving soul shows through those eyes and smile.
You have facilitated my passion to be in private practice; you have opened your home to my family with no questions asked – including Muffin.
You are there for me and mine 100 per cent.
For that I thank you.
You are not a perfect man, nor I a perfect woman. You continue to teach me a lot of patience and tolerance (especially last night).
You make me laugh, smile and feel content and for that, Joffrey, I love you.
XXX, I love you, and I take you to be my husband.
P.S. You have a nice bum.
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XXX,
I love you.
You are my best friend.
On this special day, our wedding day,
I promise to encourage and support you,
to laugh with you, to cry with you,
and to always be there when you need me.
I promise to cherish you and respect you,
to always ask you for help when I need it,
and to be grateful for all that you do for us.
I promise to always love you,
whenever life seems easy
and whenever it seems hard.
I promise you these things today,
and every day for all the days of our lives.
XXX, I love you, and I take you to be my wife.
Today, in front of our closest friends and our family, I have some promises to make to you.
I promise to take you as my husband – to have and to hold from this day forward.
I promise that regardless of the situation – for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, that I will love and cherish you, that I will honour and respect you, and that every day, from the moment I wake up til the moment I fall asleep, I promise to choose you.
You are my love, my light, and my best friend. I am so excited to spend the rest of our lives together.
XXX, I love you, and I take you to be my husband.
***
Turns out writing all these words is a lot harder than I thought.
I should have started earlier, and not have left it until the last minute like you had said.
XXX, I remember when I first met you.
I was helping a mate move – while checking out your arse.
Turns out that day wasn’t a total waste of my time.
It didn’t take long before our first date where things moved quickly.
I still remember coming home after that first date and I bragged to Mum and Nana about this awesome new chick, I just met.
XXX, you really are my best friend.
You are the only person in the world that doesn’t annoy me.
I love our little family – the cats and our lovely dog, Sunday.
I cannot wait for our family to grow.
XXX, I feel like everything in my life has led me to you.
My choices, my actions, my regrets. Everything.
And when we’re together, my past seems worth it.
Because if I had done things differently,
I might never have met you.
I never thought I’d be so lucky
to be standing next to the love of my life,
surrounded by our friends and family,
on our journey to the rest of our lives – which I cannot wait to carry on with you.
I love you XXX, and I cannot wait to take you as my wife.
XXX, from the first day we met,
through where we are today,
standing here with you,
you are not only the love of my life
but also my best friend.
You continue to make me laugh,
no matter how moody I am
or how good or bad my day has been.
You’re always there with your goofy sense of humour.
I can always count on you for a dad joke and a cold beer to put a smile on my face.
You have taught me to love who I am, to take no shit, and to stand up for myself.
I love how you’re honest, kind and caring.
You are never afraid to show your feelings.
I can not wait to see what the future holds for us.
To love you, XXX,
To take you as my husband,
To carry on that XXX name
To start a family of our own.
If you promise to kill the spiders,
I will promise to make your lunch.
If you promise to take out the recycling and the dog at night
I will make the bed.
If you love me, I will love you!
***
XXX aka XXX… well I’m not allowed to call you that cause it just sounds weird coming from me, so…
XXX, when we first met you captured my heart being exactly who you are, and kicking my ass at that skulling competition… well, twice that night, but hey we haven’t got time to go into that do we.
You are the sweetest, most loving, compassionate and sensitive person I have ever known. You build me up when I’m broken down.
You have been the reason I smile and you have given comfort beyond when I have cried.
You have believed in me when no one else would, and you have shown me how to love with passion, purity, and unconditional acceptance.
I’m not sure a lifetime is long enough to return all you have given to me but I promised the rest of my days I’ll spend by your side.
To laugh with you and cry with you. To believe in you, and support you.
In poverty I promise to do everything to make our love rich and in wealth to never let our love grow poor together.
We are better than we could ever hope to be alone, and today I give you my love, my trust and fidelity forever.
You will always be the best part of my day.
XXX, I love you, and I take you to be my wife.
Have you ever heard a song a couple of times and enjoyed it? But then you hear it again and you think “this is the best song I’ve ever heard!” You already knew it existed but for some reason it really hits you. You fall in love with the beat, rhythm, the lyrics and everything about it. You can’t get enough of it.
Meeting you was like listening to a song for the first time and knowing it would be my favourite.
I am so blessed to be standing here in front of our family and friends, celebrating our love and future together.
I wish you could see what I see when I look at you, maybe then you’ll realise that words will never describe how much you mean to me.
When I see you, I see my best friend and the one person who loves me and continues to love me through everything.
I see the most caring, generous, funny, hardworking, protective, loyal person I know.
I see my support system and the one person who is always cheering me on and pushing me to achieve my goals.
If I know what love is, it is because of you.
I promise to support you in everything you do, even if it means watching motoracing all weekend and remember that our interests are different but they are no less important than mine.
I promise to help you find your stuff even when it’s right in front of you.
I promise to make sure I’m not hungry before I yell.
I promise you that “man flu” isn’t really that bad but I’ll make sure the medicine cabinet is always full of concrete pills.
I promise you that even though I’m half the size I was when I met you, your food will always be mine and mine will always be mine.
And lastly, I promise to remember that neither one of us is perfect. But strive to remind myself of the ways we are perfect for each other.
Today and always, I will make you laugh, be faithful, honest, kind, forgiving, cherish you, share your dreams with you and grow old with you.
I love you for all that you are, all that you have been and all that you are yet to be.
XXX, I love you, and I take you to be my husband.
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