Additional Readings

Alternate Vows

These are sample vows that can be added to any ceremony.

Traditional

With this understanding, do you Groom, take Bride to be your beloved wife?
Do you promise to be a tender, faithful husband?
Do you promise to love, honor, and cherish her, in sickness and in health, for richer for poorer, for better for worse, for as long as you both shall live?

Celtic Handfasting

Introduction

Hello, and welcome to the ceremony that will unite Groom and Bride in marriage. We gather here today to celebrate their union, and to honor their commitment to not just gazing at one another, but to looking outward together in the same direction.