I was privileged to be a part of my dear friend's wedding this weekend... their vows moved me to tears & I told them both I was stealing them! Such tender, humble words promised before God to each other... this is true love... ~ MAN TO HIS WIFE TO BE ~
My love, you are my treasure and today I take you as my bride. I accept the responsibility to love and protect you while you are in my care and to help you find your life’s purposes and talents. You are a precious gift to God and I vow to return you to God, our Father, in better condition than that in which I found you. I promise to invite Christ into our marriage, the decisions we make, and the love we share. I will ask God to let me see His love for you, so that I can be moved to share in the delight He has for you, to forgive you as I have been forgiven, and to receive you with humility and gratitude. I promise to be your refuge of love and strength. You can depend on me to be faithful to God, to you, and to our family. I will always protect you and care for you. I will hold your hand, wipe your tears, and help you grow into the woman God made you to be. I will seek to demonstrate the love of Christ to you by putting you before myself. I promise to be open and honest with you. I promise to be vulnerable to Christ in my life and to you. You are God’s perfect answer to my prayer for a wife and best friend. You are the one with whom I want to serve God, establish a home, and raise a family. I promise to cherish you, pray for you and with you, and stay with you all the days of my life. I give you my life with the purpose of becoming one with you. Ours will be a union only broken by death. I will fight for you and our marriage above all else. With profound gratitude, I take you, to be my cherished bride and beloved wife.
~ WOMAN TO HER HUSBAND TO BE ~
Your character and integrity have stood out to me from the beginning. In the year and a half I have known you, you have demonstrated nothing but kindness, strength, and compassion towards me. I have never felt so treasured and safe with anyone. I am proud of everything you do and the talents you have, but mostly I am proud of who you are. With humility, and joy I choose you to my husband. I am thankful that God designed you with me in mind. I promise to respect your ideas, to support your dreams, and back you up as the leader of our home and family. I promise to be your safe place. My heart will be your shelter and my arms will be your home. I promise to guard my heart from the affections of all others and to have you as my one and only from this day forward. I promise to put you above all other earthly relationships - even our future children, for I know this is God’s perfect plan. You are the one I want to laugh with, cry with, parent with, and be with all the days of my life. Second to knowing Christ as my Savior, you are God’s most amazing gift to me. I am honored and excited to build a home and life with you, my darling, my teammate, and my best friend.
I pray that God will continue to bless and keep them tenderly in His hands as they walk through the rest of their lives together! I am honored to call them dear friends and I look forward to being witness to their journey as one. They have been such a wonderful example to me and those around them of God's love for us lived out and shared with each other. You guys ROCK! CONGRATULATIONS!!
3 comments:
Thank you for posting your friends vows. I'm embarking on writing my vows for my marriage taking place in three weeks. It of utmost importance of me to include God, and what I've just read had moved me to tears as well. It's truly beautiful, thank you for your inspiration.
I'm getting married this fall and have been trying to put in what I feel into words. Those vows are amazing and exactly what a marriage is. A man and a women becoming one with God. Thank you for posting.
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