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STYLE C

Groom, to Bride: <Bride> today before our friends and family, (Repeat) I vow to be your husband. (Repeat). I
promise to love you, honor you, (Repeat) and respect you faithfully, (Repeat) to care for you tenderly, (Repeat)

and experience with you all life has to offer, (Repeat) from this day forward, (Repeat) in sickness and in health,
in plenty and in want, (Repeat) in joy and in sorrow, (Repeat) for as long as we both shall live. (Repeat)

(Bride repeats same to Groom)

STYLE D
(Officiant to Groom): <Groom>, do you come willingly today to proclaim your love and devotion for <Bride>
Do you pledge to affirm her, respect her, and care for her during times of joy and times of hardship? To share

your feelings of happiness and sadness with her? To remain faithful to her for as long as you both shall live?

Groom: I do
(Officiant repeats the same for Bride) Credit: Tiffany Hofeldt Photography Austin TX

STYLE E – “The Pledge”
<Groom>, do you have <Bride> to be your wife, to live
together as friend and partner? Do you pledge to love her

as a person and respect her as an equal, sharing joy as well

as sorrow and triumph as well as defeat?
Groom: I do

And do you understand and accept this responsibility, and
do you promise to do your very best each day to create a

loving, healthy, and happy marriage?

Groom: Yes, I do
(Officiant repeats the same to Bride)

STYLE F Another “Pledge”

Groom says to Bride: I, <Groom>, in the name of the Spirit

(Repeat) that resides within us all, (Repeat) by the life that
courses through my blood, (Repeat) and the love that I hold

for you (Repeat) within my heart, (Repeat) take thee,
<Bride>, (Repeat) to my hand, my heart, and my spirit,

(Repeat) to be my chosen one (Repeat) today and always. (Repeat)

(Bride repeats same to Groom) Back to Top