Vows for Marriage Later in Life
I offer you not the "summer of my life" but the autumn, brisk and vibrant.
I promise to be a companion worthy of your precious friendship.
I pledge you compassion in good times and bad;
encouragement in sickness and health.
It is my intent that our life together include our
large circle of friends and loving families.
We'll cherish the memories of our individual pasts;
and create our new life as we go now together.
Vows for an Intercultural Marriage
Our love has opened windows to the worlds we lived in as children.
I have found profound respect for your heritage; but, I am not part of it.
We have vowed to live our adult lives together.
Our marriage will be a new creation.
Now I promise to build bridges of understanding and share
the best of myself with your family, your friends and you.
Vows for Remarriage
Since I have found you, I have found a new life.
The decision to commit to share that life with you
is one I make happily and with full confidence in our love.
Secure in the knowledge that
you will be my constant friend,
my faithful partner in life,
and my one true love.
On this special day,
I give to you in the presence of God and all
these witnesses my pledge to stay by your side,
in sickness and in health,
in joy and in sorrow, as well as
through the good times and the bad.
I promise to love you without reservation,
comfort you in times of distress,
encourage you to achieve all of your goals,
laugh with you and cry with you,
grow with you in mind and spirit,
always be open and honest with you,
and cherish you for as long as we both shall live.
Because I love and cherish you,
And want to fill your heart with grace,
These things I promise I will do:
I vow to tell you what is true
That you might touch whom you embrace
Because I love and cherish you.
I vow to put aside my view
And paint my portrait from your place:
These things I promise I will do.
And when you must your dreams renew,
I vow to give you ample space
Because I love and cherish you.
I vow to make our battles few
And love the child behind the face:
These things I promise I will do.
And that we might make one of two,
Too deep to know, too vast to trace,
Because I love and cherish you,
These things I promise I will do.
These things I promise I will do
That life may grant you ample grace
Because I love and cherish you:
I vow to treasure what is true
That I might touch whom I embrace:
These things I promise I will do.
I'll build a garden in your view
That with sweet fruit will stone replace
Because I love and cherish you.
I vow to love each day anew,
For love must dance through time and space:
These things I promise I will do.
I vow to make your terrors few
And then with you those demons face
Because I love and cherish you.
And now, as we make one of two,
A passage we cannot retrace,
These things I promise I will do.