These words, for a very romantic wedding vow, are quite beautiful:-
I love you. You are my best friend. Today I give myself to you in marriage. I promise to encourage and inspire you, to laugh with you, and to comfort you in times of sorrow and struggle. I promise to love you in good times and in bad, when life seems easy and when it seems hard, when our love is simple, and when it is an effort. I promise to cherish you, and to always hold you in highest regard. These things I give to you today, and all the days of our life.
and here's some words that you might like to use, or adapt when you write your own wedding vows:-
I promise to give you the best of myself and to ask of you no more than you can give.
I promise to respect you as your own person and to realize that your interests, desires and needs are no less important than my own.
I promise to share with you my time and my attention and to bring joy, strength and imagination to our relationship.
I promise to keep myself open to you, to let you see through the window of my world into my innermost fears and feelings, secrets and dreams.
I promise to grow along with you, to be willing to face changes in order to keep our relationship alive and exciting.
I promise to love you in good times and bad, with all I have to give and all I feel inside in the only way I know how, completely and forever.
You might choose to end your vows with a poem, for example, this verse by James Weldon Johnson:
"The world, for me, and all the world can hold is circled in your arms, for me their lies within the lights and shadows of your eyes the only beauty that is never old."
Irish Wedding Vows
There are several traditional Irish wedding vows to choose from, you can find out more about Irish Wedding traditions at weddingclipart.com
Here's the wording for some traditional Irish vow of unity:-
We swear by peace and love to stand, Heart to heart and hand to hand. Mark, O Spirit, and hear us now, Confirming this our Sacred Vow
and an Old Irish Wedding Vow
By the power that Christ brought from heaven, mayst thou love me. As the sun follows its course, mayst thou follow me. As light to the eye, as bread to the hungry, as joy to the heart, May thy presence be with me, Oh one that I love, `til death comes to part us asunder.
As it now gets more popular to include children and/or step children in the reading of the vows, you may wish to amend the traditional words to include them.
Thanks for visiting Special Moments, I hope you found some great ideas to help write or choose your wedding vows.