Exchange of Promises * Please Choose One

Option A ~ Revised Traditional:
______, will you have ______ to be your wife/husband to live together in holy marriage? Will you love him/her, comfort him/her, honor and keep her/him in sickness and in health, and forsaking all others, be faithful to him/her as long as you both shall live?

(Groom and Bride respond: I will)

Option B ~ Contemporary:
______, will you have  ______ to be your wife/husband and partner, and will you love  and honor her/him as long as you both shall live?

(Groom and Bride respond: I will)

 

Option C ~ Contemporary
______, do you find within you a special love for ______ that convinces you that you want to spend the rest of your lives together? Do you find within you the courage to face the challenges that you may encounter along your journey together? Are you willing to love ______ in her/his unique fullness, and to take the risk and accept the vulnerability of love again and again?

(Groom and Bride respond: I do and I will)

 

Option D ~ Contemporary
______, do you here in the presence of God and these witnesses, declare your commitment to ______ and choose her/him as the one with whom you wish to spend the rest of your life? Do you give yourself to her/him and accept the gift of self, which she/he gives to you? Do you also pledge to endure all of the difficulties of life even as you look forward to sharing the joys to be experienced together?

      (Groom and Bride respond: I do)