There is a universe of hope in this line, and it is commonly used in almost all regular wedding vows. Hugs guaranteed, whenever you need one! How lovely is that? “From this day forward” You get to hold this person close to you whenever you feel the need because he is now yours. You get to “have” this person that you love as your own, to fall asleep and wake up next to for the rest of your days together. What a beautiful sentiment! The splendor of married life is summed up in these four words, which make up for the basic marriage vows. (It will help you calm down!) “To have and to hold” Several years down the line, when you are looking at your spouse doing something you’ve told him a million times not to do, remember all the wonderful reasons that you chose him as your life partner. He was not selected for you, nor forced upon you. Remind yourself that you chose this partner, among all the people that you have dated, to spend the rest of your life with. The idea of choice is empowering and one to hold onto when you hit the inevitable rocky moments that can crop up in any marriage. In today’s language, “take” is used more in the sense of “choose,” since you have made the deliberate choice to commit to this person only. This is one of the basic marriage vows that you must have heard time and again in various wedding ceremonies and even in the movies.
“I take you to be my lawfully wedded husband” To understand the meaning of vows in marriage better, let’s unpack the basic wedding vows and see what sort of messages they genuinely convey. So, what are wedding vows? And, what is the true meaning of marriage vows? These basic marriage vows, which are actually known as “consent” in the Christian ceremony, look simple, don’t they?īut, these simple wedding vows contain a world of meaning. These standard wedding vows comprise the same set of words to each other, words that link them to all the couples who have, since medieval times, recited these same promises with the same hope in their eyes that they will, indeed, be with their partner until death do them part. Something is touching about generations and generations of people saying the traditional wedding vows.
But they have become part of the marriage “performance” and are the expected script at this point.
Most of us don’t realize that there is no legal reason to include these canonical words at the wedding ceremony. “I, _, take you, _, to be my lawfully wedded (husband/wife), to have and to hold, from this day forward, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, until death does us part.” We’ve heard them so many times, in movies, on television, and of course at weddings, that we can recite them by heart: the basic marriage vows.
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