Have You Started Writing Your Vows Yet?

amandaf6383

If you are writing your own vows, have you begun writing them yet? Do you mind sharing? I love reading other peoples vows...you get a whole overview of their love in two or three paragraphs!!!

aneubaue

I haven't started yet...but plan on starting tonight.  I think the hardest part is going to be starting them!  Once I get them done I'll share as I want as much input as I can get! 

acaponi87

My FI and I are sticking with the traditional wedding vows:0

I, (name), take you (name), 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; from this day forward until death do us part.

I don't know, we just both love these. I love that it's what our parents and grandparents said and really it just says it all. I might write him a letter for that day with something just for him but that's all I ever have wanted in vows.

janeash

We didn't write our own either......but this is what they are:

I         , take you        , to be my wife/husband.  I promise to love you, only you; and cherish you.  I will be a companion to you.  I will share my strengths and my achievements.  I promise to respect you and be a friend to you.  For better or for worse, for richer or for poorer, in sickness and in health, as long as we both shall live.

and then this is our ring ceremony (which still sounds like vows??):

        , I give this ring to you as a sign of my love. I give myself to you, to be your wife/husband. From this day forward, you shall not walk alone. I feel so honored to have you as my wife/husband. I vow to love and to sustain you In the covenant of our marriage. For as long as we both shall live.

 

niknik15

We are saying the same vows. I kinda think the three sentences about abilities needs to be changed, but my FI thinks it sounds good and says different things so I guess it will stay unless you ladies have some bright ideas.

I choose you firstname as my best friend, my love for life. I promise to grow with you in love, laugh with you in joy, and celebrate life to it's fullest. I fell in love with you for your qualities, abilities, and outlook on life. I pledge to respect your unique talents and abilities, to lend you strength for all your dreams. I promise to respect you as a person with your own interests, desires and needs, and to realize that those are sometimes different, but no less important than my own. I promise to give you the best of myself. I pledge to you my faithfulness, loyalty and honesty forever. I will love you unconditionally through the pressures of the present and the uncertainties of the future. From this day forward, you shall not walk alone. My heart will be your shelter and my arms will be your home. As I have given you my hand to hold, I give you my life to keep.

Then we are following this up with a hand ceremony.

MiksChick23

We are doing these vows that FI's grandfather wrote for us, and also a paragraph or 2 of our own:

I groom/bride, chose you, bride/groom, to be my wife/husband, my partner in life and my one true love. I will cherish our friendship and love you today, tomorrow and forever. I will trust you and honor you. I will laugh with you and cry with you. I will love you faithfully through the best and the worst, whatever may come, I will always be there. As I have given you my hand to hold, so I give you my life to keep.

I will not see FI's personal vows prior to the wedding, and I'm still in the process of tweeking mine.

peachykeen26

We are still working on ours.

rasp.berry

We aren't writing our vows ourselves, but spent a lot of time finding something that "spoke" to us...

Here are ours:

I, Bride, take you, Groom, to be my husband.  I promise to be faithful and honest in every way, to honor the faith and trust you place in me, to love and respect you in your successes and in your failures, to make you laugh and to be there when you cry, to care for you in sickness and in health, and to be your companion and your friend through all of our years and in all that life may bring us.

daria24

I have draft one, the first part is a (brief) story I'm telling FI that he hasn't heard before The second part (currently) is:

Today I give myself to you to be your wife. I offer you all that I am and all that I will become. I promise to be your friend, confidant, and equal partner all the days of my life. I promise to love and support you, through all life's successes and failures, to stand by your side for richer and for poorer, for better or for worse, in sickness and in health. I promise to love you not despite your flaws, but because of them and I will honor you, comfort you, respect you, and love you as long as we both shall live. 

melntaitt

I'm all done; copy and paste so forgive the funky text.
 
From the day we met, I realized that you were special
As we got to know each other, I realized that you were amazing
Now as we start this journey together, there are a few things I think you already know but I still want to say:

1. I promise that I will love you through all things – when you do your best or experience your worst, I promise that no matter what, my love for you will be consistent and only grow through time.
2. I promise that I will shoulder every burden with you – that for better or worse stuff isn’t made up. It can always be worse; but I promise that no matter how heavy the burden, large the obstacle or complicated the issue I will be right there beside you throughout it all.
3. I promise complete faithfulness to you – the love of my life. I promise to remind you that I love you every day for the rest of my life, not only in my words but in my actions.
4. Finally, I promise to share this amazing journey with you as my partner in all things; I KNOW we’ve got an amazing life in front of us and I can’t wait to see where this adventure takes us.

I love you Christopher, and I want you to always remember that – no matter what.

HarperBargo

We are still working on ours but using the traditional ones as a model.

DrPB2b13

We have the basics, but we're still cleaning up the wording.

We realized there were no vows that we really liked in their entirety, but we also didn't feel comfortable completely writing our own.  Instead, we found several sets of vows that had some wording, ideas, or themes that we liked, and copied/pasted them together.  We'll be cleaning up the wording this week.

michelletobin

In Response to <a href="http://forums.weddingchannel.com/main.aspx/wedding-club-boards_june-2012-weddings_have-you-started-writing-your-vows-yet?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Wedding Club BoardsForum:3ae4d68d-f10a-4dec-8810-da13c14a7b86Discussion:508532ca-4d9a-4a95-ac4f-eae93d662209Post:01d941cb-8634-47cc-9e7b-dff36c0391e2">Re: Have You Started Writing Your Vows Yet?</a>:
[QUOTE]My FI and I are sticking with the traditional wedding vows:0 I, (name), take you (name), 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; from this day forward until death do us part. I don't know, we just both love these. I love that it's what our parents and grandparents said and really it just says it all. I might write him a letter for that day with something just for him but that's all I ever have wanted in vows.
Posted by acaponi87[/QUOTE]

We were going to do our own vows, but once I started I freaked out because I know I will be so nervous and teary that I couldn't find anything that was better than traditional. so we went with the same as above. FI was thrilled, he really like traditional

AbeandCarrie

We didn't want to write our own vows.  When we were working on the ceremony, we googled wedding vows.  One of the ones we found made me cry and FI decided those were the ones we needed to say to eachother   I don't have them right now, but I can post them later.

travistanya

We are writing our own and keeping them a surprise. Here are mine:

FI, I never knew it was possible to love you this much. We have had our share of ups and downs but no matter what you have stood by me. You have encouraged me to be the best I can be and supported me when I wanted to give up. You have been there to laugh with me, cry with me and even yell with me. You smile when I’m being ridiculous and you accept my crazy ideas. I promise to always fight for us and never let go. I promise to never go to sleep without kissing you goodnight. I promise to do my best not to turn away from you when we are having a disagreement. I promise to be here for you and stand by you no matter what life throws at us. Our love will last forever and we’ll always make it through. Just believe in me like I believe in you. Oh and you started it!

I'm a little afraid of the first line. I think it sounds too cheesy. Opinions?

Our ring thing is this:

I give you this ring to wear with love and joy. As a ring has no end, neither shall my love for you. I choose you to be my (wife / husband) this day and forevermore.

littleluckypenny

(speaking into clown's mouth)  An order of standard vows, please!

Yeah, we're using traditional standard vows.  Neither one of us wanted to write anything.

rikkidawn28

We are repeating some standard vows then saying our own there after.

MMRoberts11

I've started mine and have some notes but really need to put them together.  My FI hasn't started yet.