20+ Inspired Traditional Wedding Vows for Him and Her

• April 14, 2021

Wedding is the most important event of life people want to have a perfect wedding. The wedding vows make this dream day more perfect and incredible. The wedding vows are the essence of the marriage. The promise made to your partner truly reflects affection, love, care, honor, and respect.

The precious moment when you both exchange vows and replies in the same tone is unforgettable and priceless. You both promise to share your happiness, joy, and sorrow lifelong with each other to make your marital bliss a strong foundation.

There are several beautiful and creative variations of wedding vows. From traditional religious wedding vows to non-religious, the written promises are present to show your feelings. Some couples like to recite from the old transcripts from Religious books. Others are willing to write and say their own vows that reflect their personal and emotional attachments. The wedding vows are also a blessing to the newly wedded couple.

1. Hindu Wedding Vow

Hindu traditional wedding has several sacred rituals performed during the Hindu weddings. Pandit, the Hindu wedding conductor, asked the bride and groom to take their wedding vows walking around the holy fire Agni. The ritual contains Seven consecutive rounds or walks around the fire.

• With God as our guide, lets us take the first step to live with honor and respect. Let us walk around together, so we get food.
• Let us be happy and enjoy life. Let us walk together in strength.
• Let us share joys and pains together. Let us walk together, so we get wealth.
• Let us not forget our parents and elders. Let us walk together, so we get happiness by sharing our joys and sorrows.
• Let us observe all acts of charity. Let us walk together, so we have a family.
• Let us live a long and peaceful life. Let us walk together, so we have joy.
• Let us be friends with love and sacrifice. Let us walk together, so we have a friendship.

2. Jewish Wedding Vows

During a traditional Jewish wedding, the couple may say these words in Hebrew as they, exchanging the rings." I am my beloved's and, my beloved is mine."

After the ring exchange seven blessings, (Sheva Brachot) were recited by the wedding officiant or family members and friends to bless the newly-wedded couple. The Sheva Brachot recited in Hebrew or English. Here is the English version of it.

• May the life you share together be as sweet as this wine you drink today. Blessed is the Source of Life, who created the fruit of the vine.
• May your love for one another always be a source of inspiration and happiness. Blessed is the Source of Joy, who creates a wonderful brilliant world.
• May your journey together be blessed with generosity and forgiveness. Blessed is the Source of Generosity, who created such a good, remarkable people; you two.
• May the love of your family and friends always echo in your hearts even across great distances and times. Blessed is the Source of Love who supports the edifice of love.
• May you help transform the world in big ways and small ways. Blessed is the Source of Healing who brings wellbeing to the world through Her children.
• May you always find a refuge tucked within your love - a place to hide out and a place to reflect. Blessed is the Source of Safety, brings joy to brides.
• Blessed is the Source of Life, who creates wounder, pleasure, song, and delight! May the bride and groom be filled with gladness and rejoicing, love, harmony, and companionship. Blessed is the Source of Life, who is the Source of Peace.
• Muslim Wedding Vows

In Muslims, the Nikkha is the main marriage ceremony. The nikah conducted by Imam or the Cleric recites verses from the Quran. The bride and groom asked three times if they accept this nikah. They sign the marriage is completes and, the family and friends gathered to congratulate and bless them.

Some Muslim brides and grooms may exchange the vowes. The common recitation:

Bride: I,______ offer myself in marriage and in accordance with the instructions of the Holy Quran and the Holy Prophet, peace be upon him. I pledge, in honesty and with sincerity, to be for you an obedient and faithful wife.

Groom: I pledge, in honesty and sincerity, to be for you a faithful and helpful husband.

4. Protestant Wedding Vows

In protestant weddings, God's will has presented and, the Lordship of Jesus has proclaimed. The wedding guests are part of the service and, they shared hymns, readings, and responses to the couple exchanging vows. If you miss up any part of the vow askes the officiant or Pastor to perform vows in a read-and-repeat.

In the name of God, I____, take you_____, to be my (husband/wife), to have and to hold from this day forward, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and health, to love and to cherish, until we are parted by death. This is my solemn vow.

5. Methodist Wedding Vows

The officiant recites the vows and, the couple will say I do in response.

Officiant: Will you have this (woman/man) to be your (wife/husband), to live together in holy marriage?

Will you love (her/him), comfort (her/him), honor, and keep (her/him)in sickness and death, and forsaking all others, be faithful to (her/him)as long as you both shall live?

Bride/Groom: I do.

6. Lutheran Wedding Vows

Like other Christian weddings, the vows recite by the officiant and repeated by the couple.

I,________, take you . to be my (wife/husband), and these things I promised you:

I will be faithful to you and honest with you.

I will respect, trust, help, and care for you.

I will share my life with you.

I will forgive you as we have been forgiven.

And I will try with you better to understand ourselves, the world, and God; through the best and worst of what is to come and as long as we live.

7. Baptist Wedding Vows

In traditional Baptist weddings, either the vows recite by the officiant and response by the couple.

Officiant: Will you have _____ to be your (wife/husband)?

Will you love (her/him), comfort, and keep (her/him), and forsaking all others remain true to (her/him), as long as you both shall live?

Bride/Groom: I do.

The other tradition is the short version of vows, one line said by both partners.

I,_____, take thee, to my (wife/husband), and before God and these witnesses, I promise to be a faithful and true (husband/wife).

8. Episcopalian Wedding Vows

In Episcopalian Weddings, the officiant recites the vows and, the couple responds to them together.

Officiant:_________, wilt thou have this woman/man to be thy wedded wife/husband to live together after GOd's ordinance in the Holy Estate of Matrimony? Wilt thou love her/him? Comfort her/him, honor and keep her/him in sickness and in health, and forsaking all other keep thee only unto her/him as long as you both shall live?

Bride/Groom: I will.

Some couples chose to speak their vows in contrast to other Christian marriages.

In the name of God, I,________, take you,_________, to be my wife/husband, to have and to hold from this day forward, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish until parted by death. This is my solemn vow.

9. Apache Wedding Vows

In Apache Weddings instead, of changing vows, they read a blessing for the couple.

"Now you feel no rain, for each of you will be sheltered for the other. Now you feel no cold, for each of you will be warmth for the other. Now there will be no loneliness, for each of you will companion to the other. Now you are two persons, but there is only one life before you. May beauty surround you both in the journey ahead and through all the years. May happiness be your companion and your days together be good and long upon the earth."

"Treat yourselves and each other with respect, and remind yourselves often of what brought you together. Give the highest priority to the tenderness, gentleness, and kindness that your connection deserves. When frustration, difficulties, and fear assail your relationship, as they threaten all relationships at one time or another, remember to focus on what is right between you, not only the part which seems wrong. In this way, you can ride out of storms when clouds hide the face of the sun in your lives--remembering that even if you lose sight of it for a moment, the sun still there. And if each of you takes responsibility for the quality of your life together, it will be marked by abundance and delight."

10. Catholic Wedding Vows

In traditional Catholic Weddings, the bride and groom answer the three questions before taking their vows from the priest:

• _____ and _____, have you come here freely and without reservation to give yourselves to each other in marriage?
• Will you honor each other as man and wife for the rest of your life?
• Will you accept children lovingly from God and bring them up according to the law of Christ and this Church?

You will respond with either " I will" or "yes," and then exchange your vows.

I,____, take you,_____, to be my (husband/wife). I promise to be true to you in good times and in bad, in sickness and in health. I will love you and honor you all the day of my life.

11. Quaker Wedding Vows

The traditional Quaker Wedding proceeds as the bride and groom holding their hands in nuptials and recites vows.

In the presence of God and these our friends, I take thee to be my wife/husband, promising with divine assistance to be unto thee a loving and faithful husband/wife as long as we both shall live.

12. Presbyterian Wedding Vows

In a traditional Presbyterian Wedding, the officiant calls the vows and to-be-wed replies together.

Officiant:_____, with thou, have this woman/man to be thy wife/husband, and will thou pledge thy faith to him/her, in all love and honor, in all faith and tenderness, to live with her/him, and cherish her/him according to the ordinance of God, in the holy bond of marriage.

Some couples like to say their vows:

I,____, take you,______, to be my wife/husband, and I do promise and covenant before God and these witnesses to be your loving and faithful husband/wife in plenty and in want, in joy and in sorrow, in sickness and in health, as long as we both shall live.

13. Inter-faith Wedding Vows

Interfaith weddings are a combination of different faiths and beliefs. The couple combines their faiths to create beautifully blended vows that reflect the core values and beliefs.

I,______, take you,______,to be my wife/husband. I promise to be true to you in good times and in bad in sickness and in health. I will love and honor you all the days of life.

14. Cherokee Wedding Vows

The Cherokee are the Native Americans, they do not exchange vows in their wedding. Instead, they read a blessing for the couple.

God in heaven above, please protect the ones we love. We honor all you created as we pledge our hearts and lives together. We honor Mother Earth and ask for our marriage to be abundant and grow stronger through the seasons. We honor fire ask that our union be warm and glowing with love in our hearts. We honor the wind and ask that we sail through life safe and calm as in our father's arm. We honor water to clean and soothe our relationship--- that it may never thirst for love. With all the forces of the universe you created, we pray for harmony as we grow forever young together. Amen.

15. Non-Denomination Wedding Vows

Non-Denomination Weddings proceed without any religious or traditional rituals. The couple performed a knot-tying unity ceremony and exchange vows.

I,______, commit myself to you,______, as (wife/husband) to learn and grow with, to explore and adventure with, to respect you in everything as an equal partner, in the foreknowledge of joy and pain, strength and weariness, direction and doubt, for all the risings and settings of the sun. We tie these knots to symbolize our connection to one another. They re[resent our trust in each other and our combined strength together.

16. Unitarian Wedding Vows

In Unitarian Weddings, the officiant called Lay Chaplain calls the vows, and to-be-wed respond it.

Lay Chaplain:______, will you take ______ as your wife/husband, will you pledge to share your life openly with her/him, in love? Will you promise to honor and tenderly care for her/him, to encourage her/him fulfillment as an individual through all the changes in your lives?

Bride/Groom: I do.

Some couples like to take their own vows.

I,______, take you,______, to be my wife/husband; to have and to hold from this day forward, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and cherish always.

17. Buddhist Wedding Vows

In traditional Buddhist Weddings, the wedding vows are longer than in many other religions. The first set of vows the bride and groom read together with the officiant. While the second set, the officiant first recites vows, and the bride and groom respond together to create a sense of companionship.

Officiant:______ and ______ do you pledge to help each other to develop your hearts and minds, cultivating compassion, generosity, ethics, patience, enthusiasm, concentration, and wisdom as you age and undergo the various ups and downs of life and to transform them into the path of love, compassion, joy, and equanimity?

Bride/Groom: We do

Officiant: Recognizing that the external conditions in life will not always be smooth and that internally your own minds and emotions will sometimes get stuck in negativity, do you pledge to see all these circumstances as a challenge to help you grow, to open your hearts, to accept yourselves, and each other; and to generate compassion for others who are suffering?

Bride/Groom: We do

Officiant: Understanding that just as we are a mystery to ourselves, each other person is also a mystery to us, do you pledge to seek to understand yourselves, each other, and all living beings, to examine your own minds continually and to regard all the mysteries of life with curiosity and joy?

Bride/Groom: We do

Officiant: Do you pledge to preserve and enrich your affection for each other and to share it with all beings? To take the loving feelings you have for one another and your vision of each other's potential and inner beauty as an example, and rather than spiraling inwards and become self-absorbed to radiate this love outwards to all beings?

Bride/Groom: We do.

18. Eastern Orthodox Wedding Vows

In Eastern Orthodox Church Weddings, the wedding vows are often not spoken. The couples make their promise of love in silent prayer. But in Russia, the vows are recited by the bride and groom.

I,_____, take you______, as my wedded wife/husband, and I promise you love, honor, respect; to be faithful to you, and not to forsake you until death do us part. So help me God, one in the Holy Trinity and all the Saints.

19. Civil Wedding Vows

Civil Weddings are performed, recorded, and recognized by a government official. Civil weddings are proceeded by government-certified religious persons.

Officiant: I,______, take you to be my lawfully wedded wife/husband. Before these witnesses, I vow to love you and care for you as long as both shall live. I take you with all your faults and strengths as I offer myself to you with my faults and strengths. I will help you when you need help. I choose you as the person with whom I spend my life.

20. United Church Of Christ Wedding Vows

I,______, take you______, to be my (husband/wife), and I promise to love and sustain you in the bonds of marriage from this day forward, in sickness and in health, in plenty and in want, in joy and in sorrow till death shall part us, according to God's holy ordinance.

21. Contemporary Wedding Vows

You can write your own wedding vows to reflect the love and affection to your partner. Here are some examples.

• I Filled My Heart With You:

My beloved_______, empty my heart of all others I, fill it now with you, to love you until the end of my days of my most treasured spouse. I promise that I love you, hold you, and enjoy you, console you, delight you, astound you when I can, and cherish you dearly.

• I Love You:

I love you. You are my best friend. Today I give myself to you in marriage. I promise to encourage you and inspire you. I promise 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 uneasy, when our love is simple, and when it is an effort. I promise to cherish you and respect you. These things I give to you today and all the days of our life.