Option 1
__________ and __________ you are now about to commit yourselves to each other in the bonds of Christian marriage. This is the most solemn moment in a marriage service, for here you make your promises to God and to each other.
Groom: I promise before God, our family, and friends to be your loving and faithful husband, to share my life with you, in wealth and in poverty, in sickness and in health, in good times and in bad times for as long as we both shall live.
Bride: I promise before God, our family, and friends to be your loving and faithful wife, to share my life with you, in wealth and in poverty, in sickness and in health, in good times and in bad times for as long as we both shall live.
Option 2
I take you, __________, to be my (wife/husband) from this day forward, to join with you and share all that is to come, and I promise to be faithful to you until death parts us.
Option 3
__________, I take you to be my (wife/husband) from this time onward, to join with you and to share all that is to come, to give and to receive, to speak and to listen, to inspire and to respond, and in all circumstances of our life together to be loyal to you with my whole life and with all my being until death parts us.
Option 4
I take you, __________, to be my (wife/husband), and these things I promise you: I will be faithful to you and honest with you; I will (obey,) 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 until death parts us.
Option 5
I take you, __________, to be my (wife/husband), I promise before God and these witnesses to be your faithful (wife/husband), to share with you in plenty and in want, in joy and in sorrow, in sickness and in health, to forgive and strengthen you, and to join with you so that together we may serve God and others as long as we both shall live.
Option 6
I, __________, take thee, __________ to my wedded (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, till death us do part, according to God's holy ordinance; and thereto I plight thee my troth.
