Non-Traditional Wedding Vows and Love Poems

I hereby pledge myself to be faithful.
I give myself wholly to you this hour and
I promise to guard, cherish and protect you
all the days of my life.

I take you to be my lifetime partner,
secure in the knowledge that you will be
my constant friend, and my one true love.

On this special day, I give to you in the presence of God,
my promise to stand by your side,
in sickness and health, in joy and in sorrow,
as well as through the good times and the bad.
I promise to love you without reservation,
to honor and respect you,
to comfort and support you each and every day,
to laugh with you and cry with you,
to grow with you in mind and spirit,
to always be open and honest with you, and
to cherish you for as long as we both shall live.

I promise to give you the best of myself and
to ask of you no more than you can give.
I promise to accept you the way you are.
I fell in love with you for the qualities,
abilities, and outlook on life that you have,
and won't try to reshape you in a different image.
I promise to respect you as a person with
your own interests, desires, and needs, and
to realize that those are sometimes different,
but no less important than my own.
I promise to keep myself open to you, to
let you see through the window of my personal world
into my innermost fears and feelings, secrets and dreams.
I promise to grow along with you,
to be willing to face change as we both change in
order to keep our relationship alive and exciting.
And finally, I promise to love you in good times and in bad,
with all I have to give and all I feel inside
in the only way I know how... completely and forever.

In the sight of God's love, and the
presence of our families and friends,
I give to you friendship and trust,
guidance and support, love and compassion,
promising to be faithful and understanding
for as long as we both shall live.

I stand before you because you have
won my heart through your graciousness.
You are my life partner,
the one I pledge my life and love to.
From this day forward,
I promise to love, respect, and honor you.
I will listen to you, and
be open and honest with you.
I will be your trusted partner and
stand by you through good times and bad.
I promise this now and for all the days of my life.

I have finally discovered the meaning of real love.
For as long as I live I will love, respect and honor you.
I will be committed to self-growth and to the growth of our relationship.
I promise to be honest and to communicate my needs and feelings,
just as I promise to listen to yours.
I will be faithful to you in mind, body, and spirit.
I will be your fiend and life partner no matter what life brings to us.
Today I pledge my commitment to you.

I <bride/groom>, take you <bride/groom>, to be my <husband/wife>,
knowing in my heart that you will be my constant friend,
my faithful partner, and my one true love.

From this day forward I promise you these things.
I will laugh with you in times of joy and comfort you in times of sorrow.
I will share in your dreams, and support you as you strive to achieve your goals.
I will listen to you with compassion and understanding, and speak to you with encouragement.
I will help you when you need it, and step aside when you don't.
I will remain faithful to you for better or worse, in times of sickness and health.
You are my best friend and I will love and respect you always.

On this special day,
I give to you in the presence of God
and all these witnesses
my promise 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.

It is the greatest desire of my heart
to be faithful to you and to love you always,
seeking to meet your every need,
desiring to help in every way,
listening to you, encouraging you,
comforting you and standing by your side
in whatever circumstances may
face us in the years ahead.
I will respect you, honor you and
strive for harmony in our marriage
with a quiet and gentle spirit.

I promise to love you with an unselfish devotion.
I will care for you with tenderness and
I will always seek to strengthen you,
comfort you, encourage you and hold you up
daily in prayer before our Heavenly Father.
I pledge you my faithfulness and
eternal love from this day forward.

I commit my love to you this day
for as long as we both shall live;
this love is the very flame of
God and may no man dare to quench it.
I promise to be faithful to you, to nurture you,
to cherish you and encourage you, with the same
care and concern that I give myself.
I promise to help you become the person
our Lord has intended you to be, and
throughout our lifetime together,
you will always be my beloved
and my best friend.

I acknowledge my love for you and invite you
to share my life as I hope to share yours.
I promise to walk by your side,
to love, help and encourage you.
I vow to take time to share with you,
to listen and to care.
I will share your laughter and your tears
as your partner, lover and friend.
I promise always to respect you and
honor you as an individual and to be
conscious of your needs.
I shall seek through kindness and
compassion to achieve with you
the life we have planned together.

The sun smiles on us today,
our wedding day, and how can it not,
for our love is stronger than forever
and our hearts beat together as one.
I promise to be a true and faithful partner
from this day forward,
in all life's circumstances,
as we face them together.
In the joys and sorrows,
the good times and bad,
in sickness or in health,
I will always be there for you,
to comfort you, love you,
honor and cherish you, now and forevermore.

I bring myself to you this day to share my life with you;
you can trust my love, for it's real.
I promise to be a faithful mate and to
unfailingly share and support your hopes, dreams and goals.
I vow to be there for you always; when you fall, I will catch you;
when you cry, I will comfort you; when you laugh, I will share your joy.
Everything I am and everything I have is yours,
from this moment forth and for eternity.

You are God's precious gift to me,
my springtime, my hope and my joy.
You are everything that's good and pure
and true and I worship you with my mind, body and soul.
How blessed I am to be able to say that you are mine,
to be able to love and cherish you for the rest of my days.
I vow to always put you first in my life, always be there
to comfort you in your sorrow and rejoice with you in your victories.
May our hearts and very breath become one
as we unite this day as husband and wife.
I promise to be your true love from
this day forward and forevermore.

Respecting each other, we commit to live
our lives together for all the days to come.
I ask you to share this world with me, for good and ill.
Be my partner, and I will be yours.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

I have enjoyed the time we've spent talking
about what our different faiths mean to us.
We have discovered much that we share in common.
It is my prayer that the candles we have lit together
today in unity will enlighten our path to the future.
I promise to honor your traditions as I honor you.

Now we stand together; may it always be so.
I offer myself to you today.
I will always love you, respect you and be faithful to you.

May our days be long, and may they be
seasoned with love, understanding, and respect.

You are my once-in-a-lifetime, my miracle.
May our lives intermingle and
our love grow as we become one.
You are all I could ever need in my life,
my friend, my lover, my everything.
I promise to be faithful to you,
to love you, honor you, live with you and cherish you,
according to the commandments of God,
in the holy bond of marriage.

I commit myself to years of growth and sharing as
I encourage you to move in new direction.
I will strive to achieve my potential as God's creature
and will celebrate your progress toward the same goal.
I give myself as I am and as I will be, and
I do it for all of life.

Today, as I give myself to you my mind is clear
and my commitment is strong and without reservation.
I take you to be my life's partner.
I will never leave you nor forsake you;
I will spend all my days at your side.
We will share a lifetime of eternal, immeasurable love.

As we stand beside the ocean tide,
may our love always be as constant and unchanging
as these never-ending waves that pour beneath our feet,
flowing endlessly from the depths of the sea;
your love came softly upon my heart,
just as the foam comes softly upon the sand, and
just as there will never be a morning without the ocean's flow,
so there will never be a day without my love for you.
I pledge myself to you this day.
Our love will be as unchanging and dependable as the tide;
as these waters nourish the earth and sustain life,
may my constant devotion nourish and
sustain you until the end of time.