Contemporary Vows:

I give myself to you in marriage and vow to be your husband/wife all the days of our lives.  I give you my hands and take your hands in mine as a symbol and pledge of our uniting in one flesh.  I give you my love, the outpouring of my heart, as a symbol and pledge of our uniting in one spirit.  I give you this ring from out of my possessions as a symbol and pledge of our uniting as one family.

I, ____________, take you_____________, to be my wife/husband knowing in my heart that you will be my constant friend, my faithful partner, and one true love.  You are my best friend and I will love and respect you always.

I come here today,____________, to join my life to yours before this company.  In their presence, I pledge to be true to you, to respect you, and to grow with you through the years.

Time may pass, fortune may smile, trials may come,

No matter what we may encounter together,

I vow here that this love will be my only love.

I will make my home in your heart from this day forward….

Contemporary Vows (Variation One)

_____________you are my companion in life and my one true love. I will love you today, tomorrow and forever.

                   I will trust and honor you.

                   I will laugh and cry with you.

                   I will stand by you through the best and the worst, through the difficult and easy. As I have given you my hand to hold, so I give you my life to keep.

Contemporary Vows (Variation Two)

Before our family and friends, on this wonderful day of gladness and good fortune. I_______________ take you _______________ as my (wife/husband), in friendship and in love, in strength and in weakness, to share the good times and the misfortune, in achievement and in failure, to celebrate life with you forevermore.

Contemporary Vows (Variation Three)

Where there has been cold, you have brought me warmth.  Where my life was dark, you have brought light. ____________________ I pledge from this day forward, before our friends and family, to be your (husband/wife).  Let us make our two lives into one life, and let us always cherish, honor, and respect one another.

The Rose Wedding. 

We are familiar with two wedding traditions in which roses are used. In one, the mothers are given, roses as tokens of the bride and grooms love for family.  This is often kept as a secret from the family until the roses are presented.

Short Rose Ceremony

____________, and _____________, you will remember this day for the rest of your lives.  Those of us present know that marriage, like life, brings with it many joys and challenges.  We also know that love, while beautiful, does not always show its prettiest face. There are days when we may find it hard to express the depth of our love for one another. It is my hope and prayer that the two of you will set aside a special place in your home for roses, ancient symbols of love.  When words fail you, or when the challenges of life or marriage begin to weigh on you, go out and get a rose, and put it in that special place in your home, so that the other will be reminded of this moment, and of the love you feel for one another.  As a token of that love, I would like to ask you to make these roses your first gifts to one another as a married couple.

Justice Of The Peace:

(Grooms Name)_____________, will you take (Brides Name) ____________, to be your lawful wife.  Will you love her, honor and keep her in sickness and in health and forsaking all others keep only unto her so long as you both shall live.

 Grooms Response:     I will

(Brides Name)_____________, will you take (Grooms Name)____________, to be your lawful wife.  Will you love her, honor and keep her in sickness and in health and forsaking all others keep only unto her so long as you both shall live.

Brides Response:     I will

Ring Ceremony (Vows)

Groom:  __________ (Brides Name) with this ring I thee wed.

Bride: ___________ (Grooms Name) with this ring I thee wed.

Justice Of The Peace:   You have consented together to be bound to one another in lawful marriage.  You have made special promises to each other, which have been symbolized by the joining of hands, taking of vows, and by the giving and receiving of rings.  By the authority vested in me, according to the laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, I now pronounce you husband and wife.  Now that the ceremony is over and the experience of living day by day is about to begin, go and meet it gladly.

Embrace of Groom and Bride. 

Justice Of The Peace:  Introduction of Mr. and Mrs. (Name) ______________

Traditional Wedding Vows

(Groom) I call upon all present to witness that I take you to be my lawful wedded wife, to have and to hold, from this day forward, for better, for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health while we both shall live.

(Bride) I call upon all present to witness that I take you to be my lawful wedded wife, to have and to hold, from this day forward, for better, for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health while we both shall live.

Justice Of The Peace: (Groom)____________ will you take (Bride)___________ to be your lawful wife, will you love her, honor and keep her in sickness and in health and forsaking all others keep only unto her so long as you both shall live.

Response:  I will.

I (Groom)____________ take you (Bride)___________ to be my lawful wife to have and to hold from this day forward, for better, for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health  while we both shall live.

Justice Of The Peace: (Bride) ____________ will you take (Groom) ___________ to be your lawful wife, will you love her, honor and keep her in sickness and in health and forsaking all others keep only unto her so long as you both shall live.

Response:  I will.

I (Bride)____________ take you (Groom) _____________ to be my lawful husband, to have and to hold from this day forward, for better, for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health while we both shall live.

Renewal of Marriage Vows

The word renaissance means rebirth. Today, we celebrate the rebirth of our commitment before this honored gathering. _____________

with full confidence in the solid anchor of our love. I take you ____________you once again as my husband/wife.

Once before I have stood with you before family and friends, once again I take your hand as my partner.

____________, I take you this day and for all days as my (husband/wife).

I believe in this marriage more strongly than ever.

____________, it is with joy born of experience and trust that I commit myself once again to be your (husband/wife)

Perhaps the only thing truer than one’s first love is to re-commit to that love before family and friends.

____________, you were and are my love for life, I take you from this day forward as my (husband/wife)

I, _____________, give to you_______________, a new promise and yet not so new, a new (husband/wife), and yet not so new, and a new affirmation of love from the heart that has loved you for (x) years and will love you for as many more as god allots to it.

These are but a sampling of the extensive vows, ring exchanges, pronouncements, etc., that I will provide for you when you commit with me to perform your ceremony.