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WEDDING VOWS - TRADITIONAL AND CONTEMPORARY

Note: Any of these vows can be modified to remove “God” language, or add it in. They can also be modified to
be “I Do” style or “Repeat after Me” AND the wording can be modified for same gender or non-binary couples

TRADITIONAL VOWS

STYLE 1

Officiant to Bride and Groom -- <Bride> and <Groom>, no other human ties are more tender, no other vows are
more sacred than these you are about to declare. You are entering into that holy estate which is the deepest mystery

of experience, and which is the very sacrament of divine love.

Officiant to Groom: <Groom>, will you have this woman, <Bride>, to be your wedded wife, to live together after

God's ordinance in the holy estate of matrimony? Do you promise to love her, comfort her, honor and keep her,
in sickness and in health, and forsaking all others, keep yourself only for her so long as you both shall live?

Groom -- I do

(Officiant Repeats same for Bride)

STYLE 2
Officiant to Groom -- <Groom>, do you take this woman,

<Bride> to be your wife, to have and to hold from this day
forward? Do you pledge to keep her, for better for worse; for

richer or poorer; in sickness and in health; to love and to

cherish only her, from this day forward; for as long as you both
shall live?

<Groom/Bride>: I do.
(Officiant Repeats same for Bride)

STYLE 3
<Groom> do you take <Bride> to be your wife, to live

together in holy matrimony? Do you pledge to love, honor
and cherish her, to keep her in sickness and in health, for as

long as you both shall live?

<Groom>: I do Credit: Ciera Ruess Photography
(Officiant Repeats same for Bride)

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