How to Write Wedding Vows

How to Write Wedding Vows How to Write Wedding Vows Reading your personal wedding vows yourself can be the most amazing thing to do in your own wedding. Wedding vows have the magical capacity in them to tie two souls together for eternity. Who doesn’t want to express one’s love in words depicting pure confidence and trust for their future partner? You too can write down magical wedding vows and sweep your partner off his/her feet! However before beginning to write down your wedding vows, there are certain things which are needed to be considered. Have a glance at the below mentioned points which can help you out if you are planning to read out your personal wedding vows on your “big” day:

First and foremost, you have to find out whether you follow a certain religion or not. Incase you do follow a religion then find out the bindings or customs of such religion. You have to be sure of the fact that your religion doesn’t restrict you from reading out your personal wedding vows. After you have satisfied yourself by making sure of this fact, you can start writing down your wedding vows. Get yourself a pen and a paper and let your love speak itself in words.
You shall have to examine your motivation now. This can be done by thinking about all the commitments that you have made and also kept. This thought will automatically generate another flow in your mind about all those commitments that you have made and broken. Whenever you are taking an oath or a vow, make sure that you are doing so with total awareness. Marriage is an institution which houses commitments in large amounts. So, ask yourself whether you are actually ready and willing to fulfill these commitments after your marriage. If god has given us that will power that we are able to script our lives to live consciously, then why cannot we customize those commitments which are supposed to bind two individuals with love for life? Customizing wedding vows can lead to a healthy sharing of life for both the persons. So, whenever you are thinking of writing your personal wedding vows, pen down only those commitments which you feel you will be able to truly keep. Learn to treat commitments as sacred vows and only then enter into them.
Write down only those wedding vows which you feel have a direct connection with your heart. There are certain things which are needed to be considered when you start writing your personal wedding vows. They are as follows:

Think about the reasons of loving each other
Think about that particular cause/event in your life which made you realize that you should be married
Think about that special quality in your partner which makes you go weak in your knees
Think about the possible reactions which come to your mind when you think of “marriage”, “commitment” and “love”
Think about the joint feelings of yourself and your partner on the issues of “spirituality”, “old age”, “money” and “children”
Think about whether you both have common views regarding the above issues.

Certain ideas/promises which you might want to include while writing down your wedding vows are as follows:

To be honest and faithful
To be the best of friends for life
To bring enjoyment and laughter into marriage
To love and cherish each other for life
To trust and understand each other

Last but not the least; you can derive ideas from books, poetry or even movies. Let the wedding vows be exclusive. Reading your own wedding vows will surely turn your wedding into one of the very special moments of your life.