The place of peace 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
You are the love of my life. I will grow old with you, I will rest my head on your shoulder when I am struggling, I will be there for you even when our best plans fail and there is blood and there are tears.
In you I have found a true partner in every sense of the word – a lover, a friend, a safe place when I am ugly and vulnerable. In you I have found someone who supports me, who inspires me, who makes me want to live my life to make you happy.
Even on my worst days, when I am stressed or down, or just irrationally mad about something trivial, having you in my life lends me strength and helps me calm.
You are beautiful. You make me happy. I cannot imagine what life without you (and Lexi) would be, and every day I am grateful that I found you both and that you love me as much as I love you.
I vow that I will be faithful, I will be steadfast, and I will always be the place of peace at the eye of hurricane Lisa.
I will be yours and yours alone until the end of our days. I love you.
Party 2
I love you so much, my darling, and I feel so very lucky and grateful to have found you.
I vow to love you like my grandparents loved. When leaving in anger wasn’t an option, and when caring for each other was the most important job of the day.
I vow to tough it out with you through the bad times, and to always have a cuddle before we go to sleep. I trust that our mutual commitment to reflecting and growing will get us through the worst of these days when they come.
I promise to try to look at the world through your eyes, so that I can better understand your views.
I vow to love your mum like I love my mum, because I know how special she is to you.
I promise to prioritise our alone time, and always work to find fun things to enjoy together as we change and grow old – something I’m so very excited about.
I vow to intervene gently and with love, if you’re ever obsessed with something as ridiculous as tiny houses…
And lastly, I vow to be your teammate and your most loyal best friend, to cherish every day we are gifted, and to love you until the day I die