Your wedding vows are your declaration of love to one another. It is where you publiclymake promises to each other. You can elect to use traditional vows or to write your own. Most religious ceremonies require you to use their traditional vows, but may allow you to personalise them. You should check with your officiant for guidelines. There are different types of wedding vows including traditional and non-traditional, religious, personalized, classic, humorous, and specialty vows. We have included below some traditional and religious wedding vows for you to read over.
If you need help in writing your own wedding vowls, refer to our " make your own vows"section to give you some ideas.

Traditional Wedding Vows

_______ I, give you this ring, wear it with love and joy. I choose you 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 as long as we both shall live.

_______ I, give you this ring, wear it with love and joy. I choose you 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 have and to cherish, as long as we both shall live. And hereto, I pledge you my faithfulness 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.

I take you, my beloved and my best friend, my chosen one, through all of our lives together. I give you this ring, which is bound to my heart. Wear it always, as a symbol of my love.

I promise to love you without reservation, honor and respect you, 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 stay with you for as long as we both shall live.

Religious Wedding Vows

______ 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.

______, I love you and I know you love me. I am confident that God has chosen you to be my husband/wife.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/husband. Whither thou goest I will go, whither thou lodgest I will lodge, Thy people shall be my people, And thy God my God.

______, I love you and I know that this love is from God. Because of this, I want to be your husband so that we might serve Christ together. Through all of the uncertainties and trials of the present and future, I promise to be faithful to you and love you. I promise to guide and protect you as Christ does his church, as long as we both shall live. God's Word gives us the perfect example of this love in Christ's death for the Church. I shall try always, with God's help, to show you this same kind of love, for I know that in His sight we will both be one.

______, I love you. I prayed that God would lead me to his choice. I praise Him that tonight His will is being fulfilled. Through the pressures of the present and uncertainties of the future I promise my faithfulness, to follow you through all of life's experiences as you follow God, that together we may grow in the likeness of Christ and our home be a praise to Him.

I, ______, take you _____ to be my wife/husband, before God who brought us together; to love and cherish you even as Christ loved the Church and gave Himself for it, to lead you and share all of life's experiences with you by following God through them. That through His grace, ____, we might grow together into the likeness of Jesus Christ, our Savior and Lord.

And with this ring, I, ____, take you, _____. to be my husband/wife, before God who brought us together, to love you, cherish you, to submit myself unto you in all things, and to follow you through all of life's experiences as you follow God. That through His grace we might grow together into the likeness of Jesus Christ, our Savior and Lord.