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Vow Help :)

Hey ladies! It is DEAD over on the vow board so I was hoping to get some help here. Here is what I imagine to be the final version of my vows. I would love your thoughts,opinions, and any suggestions for changes!
Tom, I stand before you, our families and our friends today to join my life with your life, my heart with your heart, and my future with your future. 
Today we begin to live our lives together as husband and wife but really our lives together started years ago.
Every decision we have made in our lives has brought us to where we are now and I could not be happier to be standing here with you today, looking forward to a lifetime together.

I cannot express to you how lucky I feel to have met you, and how much luckier I feel to be marrying you today. Your love is the greatest gift I have ever received.

I promise to always be a friend to you, first and foremost. I promise to laugh with you, and cry with you, and to try to make you laugh when you are crying. I promise to be an open ear and an open heart to you, and to always be your soft place to land. I promise to be your partner, and stand beside you through the good times and the bad. I promise to always reach for your hand when things get tough, and to hold your hand when we're walking down the street together. 

These are my solemn vows, made with love and kept with joy.
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Re: Vow Help :)

  • emarston1emarston1 member
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    edited December 2011
    I think they are very sweet :)  Definitely from the heart but not overly mushy.
  • matuofmmatuofm member
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    edited December 2011
    Okay, they definitely did their job, because I teared up.  Oh, I'm gonna be a weeping mess on my wedding day....   I especially love the "made with love, kept with joy" part.  :)
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  • MMRoberts11MMRoberts11 member
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    edited December 2011
    I really like them.  You can tell you mean everything without it being overwordy.  I also really like your closing sentence.
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  • Sue-n-KevinSue-n-Kevin member
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    edited December 2011
    GREAT vows! Good job. I'm going to be bawling my eyes out I can tell.
  • edited December 2011
    Awesome vows!!!  Now the question is...Will you be able to get through them without crying?  I know i wouldn't :)
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  • edited December 2011
    Those are beautiful vows. I wouldn't change anything.
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  • edited December 2011
    I love them!  I am super impressed you wrote your own, because I don't have the guts for that.
  • edited December 2011
    "Your the greatest gift I ever received" is where I started tearing up.  They're great. :)
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  • lndskellylndskelly member
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    edited December 2011
    In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/local-wedding-boards_michigan-detroit_vow?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Local%20Wedding%20BoardsForum:88Discussion:041682b7-97e1-4597-a46d-6c91cec2660aPost:17b4b1c9-e002-4154-a94c-9998079031da">Re: Vow Help :)</a>:
    [QUOTE]Awesome vows!!!  Now the question is...Will you be able to get through them without crying?  I know i wouldn't :)
    Posted by pullmane[/QUOTE]

    <div>Haha I can't even read them without getting choked up :)</div>
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  • lndskellylndskelly member
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    edited December 2011
    In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/local-wedding-boards_michigan-detroit_vow?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Local%20Wedding%20BoardsForum:88Discussion:041682b7-97e1-4597-a46d-6c91cec2660aPost:12e88b95-fefe-4f46-8e12-e68758847091">Re: Vow Help :)</a>:
    [QUOTE]I love them!  I am super impressed you wrote your own, because I don't have the guts for that.
    Posted by Meg1036[/QUOTE]

    <div>Thank you! I'll totally confess that I technically only wrote half myself and pulled the other half from a variety of sources :) I think FI is writing his own comopletely on his own (we aren't sharing them to each other until we are at the ceremony reading them) but he was a-ok with me halvsing it.</div>
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  • lndskellylndskelly member
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    edited December 2011
    Thanks ladies! I'll now be able to read these with confidence, but probably not a dry eye!
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