What should be the wedding vow?

2024 Author: Priscilla Miln | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 00:21

There is a beautiful custom in the West: at the time of the wedding, when the priest joins the hands and hearts of young people concluding a marriage union, they take an oath to each other. Once upon a time, we also had such a ritual, but the ceremonies put on stream in the registry offices were not very conducive to such touching and solemn moments. But, you see, there is something so special about this!

Why do we need an oath

Why was this wedding vow taken at all? What is the essence of tradition? It was once believed that marriages were made not just anywhere, but in heaven. And during the ritual, the young people, as it were, confirmed to God their agreement with His decision, their good will to create a family. The wedding oath had a deep, almost sacred meaning. The bride and groom gave their word to the Lord that they would not depart from each other, would not violate His covenant. That they are ready to become one and support each other not only in moments of joy, well-being, prosperity.

Any vow, including a wedding vow, is a promise that cannot be broken. Given in front of the altar, she emphasized that the bride and groom take this step deliberately, that they want to be together and in grief, to support each other in trials.and illnesses and go through life hand in hand until your last breath. Lovers generally tend to take their feelings ex altedly, exaggeratedly seriously and sublimely. It seems to them that no one has ever been able to love the way they do.

Of course, such impulsiveness is present in the text of which the wedding oath consists. However, the newlyweds give it not only to higher powers, but also to each other, as if re-declaring their love, and this is already a serious dialogue of hearts. Thinking about what and how to say, choosing the “most-most” suitable words, a young man and a girl (man or woman) reconsider their relationship, re-evaluate them, themselves and their partner, and analyze. That is why the wedding vow, its text is a conscious understanding and aloud recognition that only this person can become a harmonious half of another. Perhaps, this nuance is the main meaning of the tradition.

Oaths in verse and prose

What could be the wedding vow? In verse and prose, touching, sentimental, solemn, ecclesiastical and secular. The most common is the following: “I, such and such, take you, such and such, as a wife and promise to protect, love, cherish you all my life. I promise to be faithful to you, to be caring and gentle, to help in everyday life, to support in all matters and worries.

I promise to become a kind and fair father to our children, to take an active part in their upbringing. I love you as a woman, I respect you as my wife, the keeper of our family hearth,the successor of the family. May it always be so! Or a wedding vow in verse:

I love you baby, I promise to be there, Help with everything, because I know

How hard life is to live!

There is enough of everything on weekdays:

And diseases and problems.

Only trouble wins, Who is strong, stubborn, brave!

I'm strong with your love

Dare, because we are now a family!

Be happy with me

And with you - I'm happy!"

Each couple comes up with the text of their oath. Just be sincere, speak from the heart and, having given the word once, keep it to the end!