Declaration of Intent # 1

Groom, do you take Bride to be your Wife? Do you promise to love, honor, 
cherish and protect her, forsaking all others and holding only unto her?
("I do")
Bride , do you take Groom to be your Husband? Do you promise to love, 
honor, cherish and protect him, forsaking all others and holding only unto him?
("I do")

Repeated Ring Vows... although rings are not required
(Groom),I _____________, take you, ________________ to be my Wife, and pledge my love to your forever.
(Bride), I _________________ , take you _______________, to be my husband, and pledge my love to you forever.

Declaration of Intent # 2

(Groom)
Do you _____, choose to marry _____? To speak the words that will join you with her as your wife for the rest of the 
days of your life?
Answer: I do.
(Bride)
Do you _____, choose to marry _____? To speak the words that will join you with him as your husband for the rest of 
the days of your life?
Answer: I do.

Declaration of Intent # 3

________ and ___________.may the promises you make this day live always in your hearts and in your home so 
that all which you share now deepen and grow through the years, leading you through a lifetime of happiness.

A wedding is more than a celebration of the Love which lives in our Bride and Groom's hearts today. It reaches into 
the future and proclaims their intentions for that which tomorrow shall hold. A couple who wed are joined not only by 
the mutual affection and love they share, but also by their hopes, dreams and by their promises of what will be... The 
promises and vows they make this day shall guide them into their common future. I will ask you now if you are
prepared to make these promises.

Declaration of Intent # 4

Before ____________and ______________, are joined together in marriage in my presence and in the presence of 
these, your family, friends and community, I am bound to remind you publicly of the solemn, the serious and the 
permanent nature of the relationship into which you are now about to enter.

______________ and ____________,
Do you come here freely, and without reservation, to enter a marriage as companions living together as one, 
enjoying equality? Do you promise to love, respect, assist and look after each other for the rest of your lives? Are 
you prepared to live in harmony, and jointly strive for the welfare of your family?

(Answer)  We do.

Declaration of Intent # 5

__________, will you receive __________ as your wife?
Will you pledge to her your love, faith and tenderness,
cherishing her with a husband's loyalty and devotion?

(Answer): I will.

__________, will you receive __________ as your husband?
Will you pledge to him your love, faith and tenderness,
cherishing him with a wife’s loyalty and devotion?

(Answer): I will.

Declaration of Intent # 6

_______ and _______, to create a life together with the blessing of God requires that you honor the divine 
in each other and in yourself; that you honor the many voices of the soul – the joys, the delights, the love, as 
well as the anger, the fear, the illness, and the unhealed wounds; that you not ask your life partner to be any 
less than a fully formed person, committed to you in love, but still possessed by that strange and sometimes 
bewildering gift of freedom. We are to accept our life partners for all that they are, embracing each other in 
all our complexity -- in times of delight, in the fullness of dreams, in moments or sorrow, conflict, or loss. This 
is both God's blessing and charge to you: to live together with courage and honor whatever time in its 
unfolding mystery may bring.

I will ask you now if you are prepared to make these promises.