Personal Wedding Vows Can Send a Powerful Message of Love

December 4, 2005 | All Wedding Articles, Wedding Vows

Your wedding day is a celebration of love. The speeches, the toasts and the wedding vows said that day will make an impression for your life to come together. During the wedding ceremony you have a chance to make a statement of love to your spouse, words that will be used to tell each other how much you love each other, how much you want to spend your time together and how much you will be there to support each other. These statements are your personal wedding vows.

If you want to write your own personal wedding vows, this is always an option. You should first tell the minister, priest or officiator that you would be writing your own vows. This should also be something that you and your soon to be spouse agree upon. Very few people are going to disagree on this subject but you always want to give the other person the option of using a traditional wedding vow if they would like.

To write your own personal wedding vows you will need to take the time to sit down and think about your relationship now, and where it will take the two of you far into the future. Your personal vows will be statements of what you are looking forward to experiencing and statements of love, that you will be there for the person you love through thick, thin, sickness, health, and for richer or poorer.

When you are writing your own vows for a ceremony, you have to keep in mind those who will be witnessing your vows. You want your emotions, feelings and expectations known at this time. Your vows are to be said and written in a manner that will create a bond between two people, which is the marriage itself. Those who are witnessing your ceremony and wedding vows should understand your devotion to the other person you are marrying.

Your wedding vows should include the words I, we, us, always, forever, want, need and words such as relationship, together and family. Personal wedding vows are true expressions of life, love and family so including these words when writing your vows will make the entire ceremony part of your own personal expression.

For more information on personal vows, check out this page on wedding vows.