Wedding SA Wedding Vows

Submitted: 26 Feb 2008

Alan:
I, Alan, take you Remy as my eternal soul mate and companion through good and bad. I will always stay by your side. I am amazed by you and I want to do the best to make you happy. I want to spend the rest of my life hearing your thoughts and helping you fulfill your dreams. I promise to encourage you and support you all the days of our lives together. Meeting you gave me my life back and I look forward to us becoming one and for us to remain faithful to each other and build a long lasting, loving and caring family life. With these words, I seal my love to you, my lovely, beautiful woman, best friend lover and my wife.

Remy:
Today I stand in front of the man, who I thought exists only in my dreams. I never thought I would find someone who can complete me, with whom, I can be myself and doesn't need to pretend. With whom I can share my innermost thoughts and dreams. From the day we met, I knew in my heart that you are the one person I've searched for, and I believe that true love only comes once in a lifetime. The search is over my love. I am here with a promise of a long and lasting love, a love that will not change whether good times or bad and will be always here whenever you need me. I will be loyal and true to you till the end of my days and will never abandon you. This is my solemn vow. I love you with all my heart.

Marriage date 04/Jan/2008

Submitted: 16 Dec 2004

I love you, Jo/Grant
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 together.

Submitted: 14 Dec 2004

Adam, do you now choose Karen to be your wife, to share your life openly with her, to speak truthfully and lovingly to her, to accept her fully as she is and delight in who she is becoming, to respect her uniqueness, encourage her fulfillment, and compassionately support her through all the changes of your years together?
ADAM: I do

Karen, do you now choose Adam to be your husband, to share your life openly with him, to speak truthfully and lovingly to him, to accept him fully as he is and delight in who he is becoming, to respect his uniqueness, encourage his fulfillment, and compassionately support him through all the changes of your years together?
KAREN: I do

VOWS (To be read by Rev and repeated by Karen and Adam) i.e Adam, repeat after me:
I promise to love you,
To remain honest and faithful to you,
To be available for you when you are in pain or grief,
And when you are filled with happiness,
I promise to challenge you always,
To support and nurture you
And to be receptive to the gift of your love.
I love you with all my heart,
And I will love you for the rest of my life.

ADAM : A ceremony is for a day; a marriage is for a lifetime. Today, I join my life with yours for as long as I shall live on this earth, forsaking all others. Karen, I freely offer myself to you as your husband. (place ring on finger)

KAREN : You are the one with whom I can share all that I am. Take this ring as a sign of my love and commitment to our marriage. Adam, I freely offer myself to you as your wife. (place ring on finger)

Submitted: 6 Dec 2004

Ally's vows
Dan, I started to love you the very first moment I kissed you.
Today I marry you as my best friend, my lover, my partner in life and my one true love.
When you smile at me I feel beautiful, you make me laugh like no one else can. When I am wrapped in your arms I feel safe, you are my shelter and my rock. When I'm with you, I am home.
I love you completely; not only for who you are, but also for who I am when I'm with you. You accept and love me as I am but you provide me with freedom and encouragement for me to grow.
I am a better person because of you.
I promise to always be honest and fair to you, I will trust you, respect you and support your dreams. I will always be there for you and for our married life together, as your happiness is essential to my own.
As I have given you my hand to hold, I am giving you my life to keep. I give you all that I am and all that I will become.
I choose to love you faithfully and forever. This is my promise to you on our wedding day and for each day that follows. For love would have no meaning without you.

Dan's vows
Ally, from the day we met, you've surprised me, challenged me and engaged me in a way that no other person has. Together we've cried. Together we've laughed - sometimes with each other and sometimes at each other, but always together.
We've already experienced so many challenges, some good and some not so good and I always thought that I was strong enough and brave enough to handle anything. Over the years I learned that it wasn't just me, but it is from US that I had gained my courage, strength and conviction.
I wouldn't be the man today if it wasn't for you.
As I look at you now, you make it so easy to love you - your inner glow, your gorgeous smile, your loving eyes, the way people are drawn to you and especially the way you look at me. Each morning I look at you and I see love looking back.
You are already my best friend, my companion and my soul mate, but today, I take you as my wife. All I have to offer is me, my life and all that you will help me become.

Submitted: 8 Sept 2004

Luke: I Luke, take you Vicki, to be my lawful wife, to have and to hold, from this day forward, for better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health, while we both shall live.

Vicki: I Vicki, take you Luke, to be my lawful husband, to have and to hold, from this day forward, for better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health, while we both shall live.

Luke: Vicki, with this ring,
I thee wed
Take and wear it
As a pledge of my love
And as a symbol
Of all we share.

Vicki: Luke, with this ring
I thee wed
Take and wear it
As a pledge of my love
And as a symbol
Of all we share.

Submitted: 12 Aug 2004

MICHAEL says:
I was not looking for love when I met you, I thought we could be good friends. Our friendship grew into love and I have never looked back. I show that love today by making a binding commitment of love to you.

NATALIE says:
I used to be afraid of falling in love, of giving my heart away. How could I trust a man to love me, to give to me all that I wanted to give to him?
Michael, when I met you, I realised how much we could share together. You have renewed my life: Today I join that life with yours.

Submitted: 12 Aug 2004

Looking back I can't remember a time that I wasn't in love with you.
Your passion and your energy have and continue to inspire me in ways I never
thought possible.
You are my best friend, you are my soul mate.
You have given me purpose at times when I felt I have none.
I know there's nothing we can't work through together.
I am thankful everyday that you were brought into my life and I thank you for loving me unconditionally.
It is my promise today, before our friends and family to love and cherish you forever.

Submitted: 12 Aug 2004

A friend once told me, that people come into your life for a reason, and only stay for as long as they are needed.
Since we have been together, you have provided me with strength, security, confidence, honesty, love & plenty of much needed guidance. I would not be complete if you were not with me.
Where there has been cold, you brought warmth; where my life was dark, you brought light. In my darkest trouble, in my coldest silence; I looked for you and you were there.
You may not realize it but you have helped and saved me in so many ways .
I am honored that you will have me as your wife and I am proud to have you as my husband.
I believe that we were meant to be from the start, I will always love you with all my heart.
And I will NEED you forever.

Submitted: 12 Aug 2004

Abe/Kylie, take this ring, and with it my promise of faith, patience and love, for the rest of my life.

Submitted: 12 Aug 2004

Daniel, today I have a smile stretched from ear to ear. You took my hand, Husband and Wife we now will be. You have made my life complete, for better for worse, richer or poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish 'til death do us part.

Submitted: 11 Aug 2004

Clare: Trent as we stand here on our special day I promise to you, in front of our family and friends that I truly and deeply love you. I love you because you make me happy, make me laugh and you let me cry. You encourage me to be my best, treat me as a woman and as an adult. I love you for you and who you are. As I marry you today I promise that I will love, honour and support you in everyway for all the years to come.

Trent: Clare, you are the most beautiful person I have ever met.
I love you with all my heart.
I love you because you are not only my lover but my friend.
I love you because you complete me. Without you I feel empty and worthless.
I promise to do my best to make you smile and laugh and hold you when you cry for all the years to come.