Choose You Vows
From this day on I, N., choose you,
my beloved N.,
to be my husband.
To live with you and laugh with you.
To stand by your side and sleep in your arms.
To be joy to your heart and food to your soul.
To bring out the best in you always.
And, for you, to be the most that I can.
I, N., choose you,
N., to be my wife,
as my friend, my love,
and mother of our children.
On this day I affirm the
relationship we have enjoyed,
looking to the future
to deepen and strengthen it.
I will be yours in plenty and in want,
in sickness and in health,
in failure and in triumph.
I will cherish and respect you,
comfort and encourage you,
be open with you and stay with you
as long as we shall live
freed and bound by our love.