Choosing Wedding Vows

It's worth spending a day having a look on the Internet as well as in your local library and some of the bigger bookshops to find some unusual wedding vows:

I add my breath to your breath
That our days may be long on the earth
That the days of our people may be long
That we may be one person
That we may finish our roads together
May our mother bless you with life
May our paths be fulfilled

Keres Indian song

You are my wife, my feet shall run because of you, my feet
dance because of you, my heart shall beat because of you,
my eyes see because of you, my mind thinks because of
you, and I shall love because of you.

Eskimo marriage song

From this day forward,
You shall not walk alone,
My heart will be your shelter,
And my arms will be your home.

Anon

I cannot promise you a life of sunshine;
I cannot promise riches, wealth, or gold;
I cannot promise you an easy pathway
That leads away from change or growing old.
But I can promise all my heart's devotion;
A smile to chase away your tears of sorrow;
A love that's ever true and ever growing;
A hand to hold in yours through each tomorrow.

Anon

I take you now and for always, for always is always now.

Philip Larkin

We have taken the seven steps.
You have become mine forever.
Yes, we have become partners.
I have become yours.
Hereafter, I cannot live without you.
Do not live without me.
Let us share the joys.
We are word and meaning, united.
You are thought and I am sound.
May the nights be honey-sweet for us;
May the mornings be honey-sweet for us;
may the heavens be
honey-sweet for us.
May the plants be honey-sweet for us;
may the sun be all honey for us;
may the cows yield us
honey-sweet milk!
As the heavens are stable,
as the earth is stable,
as the mountains are stable,
as the whole universe is stable,
so may our union be
permanently settled.

Hindu marriage ceremony

It's all I have to bring today,
This, and my heart beside,
This, and my heart, and all the fields,
And all the meadows wide,
Be sure you count, should I forget, -
Some one the sun could tell, -
This and my heart, and all the bees
Which in the clover dwell.

Emily Dickinson