Vows

[Ahura1981]

I have spent about 3 hours thinking and writing up our vows from scratch!!!!!

I was so brain dead, I think it sounds a little weird hahaha

Did anyone use the celebrant/priest (whomever you used)...their standard vows or were you able to make it up yourselves? did they give you a list of what you could use??

[MrsWarren2B]

We had a couple of options for our wedding (Catholic Church). We used the traditional vows, but there were different ways to do traditional vows. There was a modernized version and the "traditional" version. You could answer them as a question by saying "I do" after the priest reads off the vows. You could also repeat the vows after the priest or read them from a book. We read them from a book because DH was afraid that he would mess up :)

[BernieA]

Our celebrant sent us lots of different vows that we could pick from OR we could write our own - we went with one that he sent just changed a couple of things. Most will have more then one option - just check with them before you book with them.

If you get stuck I would be happy to send you the ones he sent to us.

[Ahura1981]

oh thanks ladies...i appreciate it! i have emailed our celebrant to see if he could help out with the wording, and he has sent me back a 10 page document (apparently he forgot to give it to us on our first meeting)...so thats helped alot! haha

[jessienga]

I put the ones I want in the last thead on here, I went to http://weddings.about.com/cs/bridesandgrooms/a/vowwording.htm
and took a little from some of them to come up with ours an added in some personal touches.

[ISIDEJOSH]

awh cute !~!! its going to be hard for me too!!!

[maeberha]

we didn't have an option. it was whatever the officant made us say :p

[Faerievert]

I asked or a copy of his generic wedding script ahead of time. I thought the vows were fine, so we stuck with what he had. I wanted to make sure they weren't the old 'love honor and obey' version! But there was no way I wanted to write my own! Our whole ceremony was done in about 10 minutes - the shorter the better for us!
I did do some searching to find a unity candle ceremony to add into his script.

[Ahura1981]

wooo, thats a good site, thanks :)