Follow your dreams wedding vows
Here’s the next set of awesome wedding vows in my series of amazing (de-identified) vows from one of my beautiful couples!
Some of my couples have written such incredible words of love and promise, and I thought they’d act as great inspiration for other couples who have no idea where to start when writing their own vows. While I provide all my couples with a vow pack that contains questions to get you started and loads of individual sentences that can be put together to create vows (and there’s absolutely nothing wrong with that), the vows in this series all include the kind of personal touches that I think make wedding vows beautiful and genuine. To me, the most successful vows are personal, from the heart, and written in language the speaker would use in their everyday life.
Also remember: the word vow means promise. While we all love hearing all the reasons you love your partner, your vows are your chance to tell your partner all the things you are promising them for your lives together into the future. Don’t forget the promises!
A reminder: these vows are published to inspire you and provide you with some ideas for writing your vows. They’re not here so you can copy them word for word!
Also remember these don’t include the legally required vows – those words generally go at the start of these ones.
Party 1
From this day forward I promise you these things.
- I choose you above all others to share my life in marriage.
- I give you my heart and I want to spend the rest of my life being there for you.
- I promise to support you through the tough times, the easy times and all the other times in between.
- I will always be the last person to say goodnight to you and the first to say good morning.
I am so proud you are my wife, my loyal best friend, my faithful partner in life and I vow to love you forever, my one and only true love.
Party 2
Growing up, I had an idea of what fairy tales and love stories should look like; never knowing that one day I would have my own and ours would be my favourite. Everyone told me to wait for someone who is willing to commit, someone who challenges me, someone who will take their time to understand me, someone who loves me unconditionally and most importantly someone who will balance me out when I get a bit frantic…
9 years ago, I walked into a new workplace, expecting to find a friend; instead I found everything that I was looking for. I found you.
From day 1 you have shown me what real patience looks like, you’ve shown me kindness and you’ve given me the opportunity to experience real love and so much laughter. From this day forward I promise to be honest with you and to continue to love you. I promise to encourage you to follow your dreams, I promise to be your shoulder to cry on, I promise to hold your hand through the good times and bad and I promise to make you laugh when you are taking yourself too seriously. I will be loyal and faithful and put you before all else.
Love may not be candles or roses, but it is the belief that another person’s happiness is essential to your own.
I love you and cannot wait to begin this next chapter as husband and wife.