
Making Your Vows Special to You
Five: Enter Days of Togetherness
Celebrant: We are gathered here today to take part in the most time-honored celebration of
the human family, uniting a woman and a man in marriage. ____________ and ____________ have
come to witness before us, telling of their love for each other. We remember, theirs is a love
whose source is the affection of those who loved them into being.
We remind them that they are performing an act of complete faith, each in the other; that the
heart of their marriage will be the relationship they create. In a world where faith often falls short
of expectation, it is a tribute to these two who now join hands and hearts in perfect faith.
Celebrant to Groom: ____________, will you receive ____________ as your wife? Will you pledge
to her your love, faith and tenderness, cherishing her with a husband’s loyalty and devotion?
Groom: I will.
Celebrant to Bride: ____________, will you receive ____________ as your husband? Will you
pledge to him your love, faith and tenderness, cherishing him with a wife’s loyalty and devotion?
Bride: I will.
Celebrant: _____________ and _____________, receive each other from your fathers and mothers,
who give you into each other’s keeping, by saying now, each to the other, words which will tell of
your love.
Groom: I, ____________, take you, ____________ to be no other than yourself, in all the ways life
may find us, tending you in sickness and rejoicing with you in health, as long as we both shall live
to love.
Bride: I, ____________, take you, ____________ to be no other than yourself, in all the ways life
may find us, tending you in sickness and rejoicing with you in health, as long as we both shall live
to love.