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The Wedding Vows
The meaning and history of the wedding vow, and how to write your own
Everything worth knowing before you write your own vows.
$17.99plus shipping at cost
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The same writing is available now as a printable PDF — Christian Wedding Vows, $19.98 on Etsy →
When it opens, this book is ordered here — printed for your order and shipped to your door.
Six short chapters, then a workbook.
The chapters are about the vow itself: what a vow is when God is the one hearing it, who else is listening when you make one, where the words your grandparents said came from, and what the church has said about them since long before anyone thought to write his own. Then the areas worth vowing about, which is where most modern vows go thin. Couples vow to be each other’s best friend and say nothing about money, or about the year one of them is unbearable to live with.
Then the workbook. One section for him, one for her, each walking from what you’re actually promising to the words you’ll say out loud. It ends in a covenant of marriage, signed by you both.
Take what you write to your pastor before the day. He’ll be standing there when you say it, and he’s heard which ones hold up.
Marriage came from God’s hand long before any courthouse got involved. He gave it early and entire, on the sixth day, which is why a vow asks for everything and is still a good thing to make.
Write vows you’d be willing to have read back to you at forty years, on an ordinary morning when nobody is watching and nothing feels like a wedding. The promise runs until one of you buries the other, because God joined it and has never written another ending.
The physical book
8.5 × 11, coil bound so it lies flat while you write. Cream uncoated paper, chosen so a pen doesn’t smear. Printed in the United States. Scripture quoted from the NASB 1995.
This book is reflection, not counseling, medical, or legal advice, and it does not replace your pastor, or a biblical counselor sought with your pastor.
