Optional Vows*

Do you ____ promise to love ____ and to live with them through this lifetime to build with them a new home that is a place of love, joy, sharing, growing?

[ “I do” ]

Do you ____ promise to be with them in all of their adversities and triumphs and in their happiness to give them your best counsel and above all freedom to be ____?

[ “I do” ]

Do you ____ promise to love ____ and to live with them through this lifetime to build with them a new home that is a place of love, joy, sharing, growing?

[ “I do” ]

Do you ____ promise to be with them in all of their adversities and triumphs and in their happiness to give to them your best counsel and above all freedom to be ____?

[ “I do” ]

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Will you ____ have ____ to be your wedded (husband/wife) to live together in the covenant of faith hope and love according to the intention of God for your lives? [ “I will” ] Will you listen to (his/her) deepest thoughts, be tender hearted and wise in your daily care of (him/her), stand faithful at (his/her) side, choosing (him/her) above all others, and undertake to care for (his/her) well-being of mind and body and spirit as long as you both shall live? [ “I will” ]

Then, repeat after me the words that will bind you to (him/her) as (his wife/ her husband) [ “With God as my witness, I ____ take you ____, to be my (wife/husband), to have and to hold, for better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, for the rest of my life, This is my solemn vow.” ]

Repeat vows, beginning from “Will you…” once more, for the other partner.