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Wedding Vow Examples

These wedding vows from real couples will inspire you, especially if you’re looking for unique, non-religious vows… or geeky and funny vows! We’ve got how to write wedding vows templates, guidance on how to write wedding vows or him, and so much more.

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This year’s best vow examples

We’ve featured literally thousands of real weddings on Offbeat Wed, and most of them include an excerpt from the couple’s vows. For those of you planning your weddings and trying to write your wedding ceremony scripts, these wedding vow examples from real couples can be a great way to get ideas to help you figure out how to write your own wedding vows.

A train ride ceremony and stunning kilts and bridal suits at this Railroad Museum of New England wedding

Non-possessive ring exchange wording and wedding vow promises

“We’ve both had reservations about marriage: it’s often associated with sexism, it implies that relationships should be permanent even though they often aren’t. Still, we wanted to make our commitment official in a public way — but we wanted our wedding to reflect our ideas about marriage.”

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This hilarious wedding script includes a ball and chain exchange!

This hilarious wedding ceremony script includes a ball and chain ceremony. And instead of a wedding party, this couple had the FOUR HORSEFOLK OF THE WEDPOCALYPSE, and the results were as amazing as you’d expect.

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Funny and honest wedding vows by two writers

Get inspired by these funny yet honest and vulnerable vows from these writers’ commitment ceremony.

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Borrow this sweet blended family wedding vow idea

When my husband Ryan and I eloped to Audubon Park in NOLA in June of 2019, my daughter is Rebecca was included in our wedding party — and even in our vows! Here’s the blended family vows wording we used in our ceremony

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Ceremony script: This bride and groom wrote each other’s vows!

We wrote each other’s vows. To us, a marriage is a partnership. So it made sense for me to write vows for my husband that I wanted from him, and for him to write vows for me, voicing what he wanted from me.