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Optional Extra Vows
A standard Register Office marriage ceremony is relatively short lasting only about 15 minutes and
we could encourage you to say additional vows to each other following the contractual vows and
during the exchange of rings. You may choose to say the same or different vows to each other, or
you can write your own (provided they have no religious content) Our options are:
Option A
And I promise to care for you, with love and friendship, to support and comfort you, through good
times and through troubled times. I promise to care for you, with love and patience, to respect and
cherish you, and to be faithful always. These promises I make to, you for the rest of my life.
Option B
When you are weak I will strengthen you; when you are sad, I will comfort you, and when you need
me, I will be there. In happiness I will laugh with you. And in our life together, I will be forever
faithful. I give you this ring, as a token of my enduring love. With my heart I pledge to you, all that I
am, and all that I will become. With this ring I marry you, and join my life to yours.
Option C
I promise to give you, my love and friendship, to be there for you when you need me most, to laugh
and cry with you, to trust and confide in you. I promise to give you my comfort, support and respect,
to share all I have with you, and to be faithful always. These promises I make to you, for the rest of
my life.
Option D
I promise to love and care for you, and to be faithful to you always. May we look to our future
together with hope, happiness and joy. May we remember this day, keeping it perfect in our hearts,
forever.
Option E
Today I am secure in the knowledge, that you will be a constant friend, my faithful partner in life and
my one true love. Today I give to you, in the presence of these witnesses, my promise to support
you, through the good times and the bad. I promise to love you without reservation, comfort you in
times of distress, encourage you to achieve your aims, always be open and honest with you, and
cherish you as long as we both shall live.
Option F
I take you to be my husband/wife. To have and to hold from this day forward. Through sickness and
in health, through happiness and sadness. I give to you, my unending love and devotion. I promise to
respect and cherish you, and to be faithful always. I look forward, to spending the rest of my life with
you, and will love you always.
Option G - Own vows (subject to approval by the Superintendent Registrar).
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