Sample Vows for Your Small Wedding in Michigan
Your wedding ceremony can be traditional, non-traditional, or self-written by the bride and groom.
Example #1 of Wedding Vows:
Dearly Beloved, we are gathered here today before family and friends to witness and celebrate the marriage of GROOM and BRIDE. Welcome and thank you for being here on this special day.
“Let us not love with words or tongue, but with actions and in truth. Let us love one another.”
GROOM and BRIDE, today you take the step of consecrating the very special relationship you have been building, and in this step you change forever the direction of your individual life paths. In marriage, two people give themselves freely and openly into the hands of the other, and in doing so, each receives the love and trust of the other as their most precious gift. But even as that gift is shared by two people who are in love, it also touches their community of family members and friends, who in various ways support and contribute to the relationship. Those of you here today are part of GROOM and BRIDE’s community of family and friends, and each of you has played some part in bringing them to this moment.
This community also includes those friends and family who cannot be here today, and those who have left this life, and we here recognize those unseen ties that bond them to GROOM and BRIDE.
The rings please.
(To BRIDE). I give you this ring as a symbol of my love and devotion to you.
Today I give to you all who I am, and accept from you all that you are.
Today I make a personal promise of love and trust that you are my husband.
Each day I wear this ring, the world will know that I am yours.
When you look at this ring, may it remind you that I will always be your best friend.
I love you with all my heart and I am honored to be your wife, today, tomorrow, and always.
With this ring, I thee wed.
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(To GROOM). I give you this ring as a symbol of my love and devotion to you.
Today I give to you all who I am, and accept from you all that you are.
Today I make a personal promise of love and trust that you are my wife.
Each day I wear this ring, the world will know that I am yours.
When you look at this ring, may it remind you that I will always be your best friend.
I love you with all my heart and I am honored to be your husband, today, tomorrow, and always.
With this ring, I thee wed.
By the powers vested in me, I now pronounce you husband and wife.
Now, seal it with a kiss.
Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you, MR. & MRS. LAST NAME. Congratulations.
Example #2 of Wedding Vows
Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to witness the marriage of BRIDE and GROOM.
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BRIDE and GROOM, today you take the next step towards continuing your lifetime commitment. The love and trust you have built also touches your family and friends who in various ways support and contribute to the relationship. Thank you all for coming.
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(To BRIDE)
Do you, BRIDE, choose GROOM, to be your HUSBAND? To be no one other than yourself, will you love what you know of HIM, and trust what you do not yet know?
Will you respect HIM as an individual, a partner, and an equal in your life together?
Will you promise to learn from HIM, to communicate openly with HIM, and to always honor your differences?
Do you promise to love HIM through sickness and in health, laugh with HIM when the times are good, and to work through any challenges that may face you?
Do you want to make a happy home, and to grow old together?
Do you want to set the example for love, honor, and respect in marriage before family, friends, and strangers?
In all that life brings you, will your love and friendship remain HIS forever?
When you wake up tomorrow, and every day forward, do you promise to honor these vows all over again?
Do you choose GROOM to be your HUSBAND? (say, yes)
Repeat after me: Marry me, and make me the happiest woman in the world.
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(To GROOM)
Do you, GROOM, choose BRIDE, to be your WIFE? To be no one other than yourself, will you love what you know of HER, and trust what you do not yet know?
Will you respect HER as an individual, a partner, and an equal in your life together?
Will you promise to learn from HER, to communicate openly with HER, and to always honor your differences?
Do you promise to love HER through sickness and in health, laugh with HER when the times are good, and to work through any challenges that may face you?
Do you want to make a happy home, and to grow old together?
Do you want to set the example for love, honor, and respect in marriage before family, friends, and strangers?
In all that life brings you, will your love and friendship remain HERS forever?
When you wake up tomorrow, and every day forward, do you promise to honor these vows all over again?
Do you choose BRIDE to be your WIFE? (say, yes)
Repeat after me: Marry me, and make me the happiest MAN in the world.
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The rings please.
(To BRIDE). I give you this ring as a symbol of my love and devotion to you.
Today I give to you all who I am, and accept from you all that you are.
Today I make a personal promise of love and trust that you are my husband.
Each day I wear this ring, the world will know that I am yours.
When you look at this ring, may it remind you that I will always be your best friend.
I love you with all my heart, and I am honored to be your wife, today, tomorrow, and always.
With this ring, I thee wed.
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(To GROOM). I give you this ring as a symbol of my love and devotion to you.
Today I give to you all who I am, and accept from you all that you are.
Today I make a personal promise of love and trust that you are my wife.
Each day I wear this ring, the world will know that I am yours.
When you look at this ring, may it remind you that I will always be your best friend.
I love you with all my heart, and I am honored to be your husband, today, tomorrow, and always.
With this ring, I thee wed.
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By the powers vested in me, I now pronounce you husband and wife.
You may now seal it with a kiss.
Congratulations MR. & MRS. LAST NAME
Example #3 of Wedding Vows:
Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to join this man and this woman in holy matrimony. Not to be entered into lightly, matrimony should be entered into solemnly and with reverence and honor. Into this agreement these two persons come together to be joined.
Marriage is a union between husband and wife that shall remain unbroken. It is the basis of a stable and loving relationship and is a joining of two hearts, bodies, and souls. The husband and wife are there to support each other and to provide love and care in times of joy and times of adversity.
We are all here today to witness the joining in wedded bliss of (GROOM) and (BRIDE) This joyous day celebrates the commitment and love with which (GROOM) and (BRIDE) start their lives together. Today, you are joined together in the most holy of bonds. Who gives this woman in holy matrimony to this man?
(BRIDE) Repeat after me:
I, (BRIDE), take you (GROOM), to be my husband, to have and to hold from this day forward, for better or for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish; until death do us part.
(GROOM) Repeat after me:
I, (GROOM), take you (BRIDE), to be my wife, to have and to hold from this day forward, for better or for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish until death do us part.
The wedding ring is an unbroken symbol of the everlasting love and commitment between husband and wife.
(Hand ring to groom.) Repeat after me: With this ring, I thee wed.
(Hand ring to bride.) Repeat after me: With this ring, I thee wed.
With the power vested in me by the state of Michigan, I now pronounce you husband and wife. You may kiss the bride.
Ladies and Gentlemen, I present to you Mr. & Mrs. (LAST NAME). Congratulations.