Old Style Wedding Vows
Do couples still follow old wedding vows or new ones ? Old ones require the wife to follow the commands of the husband. This may sound like a caveman’s antic but there are still a lot of people who follow traditional views. What is your view ? Should wedding vows be changed in light of all the modern changes in the world ?
As with all wedding vows, old or new…..the main ones still say …..IN SICKNESS AND HEALTH, TILL DEATH DO US PART
As couples, there should be respect and honesty. Always keep the communications lines open and never let one person down just because their views are different.
Here is a sample wedding vow:
I, (Bride/Groom), take you (Groom/Bride), to be my (wife/husband), to have and to hold from this day forward, for better or for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish; from this day forward until death do us part.
And the thought of my husband making all the decisions and telling me what to do was hysterically funny to both of us. So there was no obeying in our vows.
But some couples like the idea of swearing allegiance, either in some words of their own choosing, or in the conventional form. And many, I suspect, don’t even think about it, and just repeat the vows as they are presented. As Meg pointed out, your vows can set the tone for your wedding, but they also set the tone for your marriage.
admin @ November 18, 2007