The gay wedding vows reflect the couple’s love for each other and are an affirmation of the couple’s desire to live together and take care of each other. The vows may be delivered at a religious ceremony or a secular or commitment ceremony but they reflect the love and passion that the couple feels for each other.

There are several websites that offer samples of gay vows. The gays can use these as they are or modify them to make them more personal. However, a common feature of gay vows, like other vows, is the pledge to look after each other through good and bad times. This includes looking after each other through sickness and health and through richness and poverty.

Some gays don’t like the word marriage and prefer to use words like long lasting relationship or union. They also don’t prefer to use the words husband and wife and prefer the neutral spouse or partner.

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The Christian wedding vows are faith based, and can be chosen from a range of possibilities that the Bible offers. They are the most traditional, and the closest to religion. However, they can be modified to meet the needs of the couple in consultation with the officiant.

All Christian faiths, be they Episcopal, Lutheran, Methodist or Presbyterian, have more or less similar wedding vows. The most traditional wedding vows are found in the Form of Solemnization of Ceremony. They have been spoken by millions of couples down the ages to profess their love and faith in each other.

The bride and groom can select their vows from these traditional wedding vows. In recent times, couples have sought to make minor modifications in the Christian vows. Instead of the man promising to “love and protect” the woman, and the bride promising to “serve and obey” there is a desire to bring in more equality. The couple now prefer to take vows to “love, honor and protect”.

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