Write Your Own Heartfelt Wedding Vows
Not everyone is talented when it comes to writing beautiful poetry and turning it into their wedding vows. That doesn’t, however, mean that you can’t learn how to write down what you want to say. Follow these easy steps and you’ll have everyone at your wedding in tears from the sweetness of your vows:
Choose your theme: This should be the simplest step but don’t be lured into something cliché. You can try pretending a newspaper article was written about your relationship. Maybe it would talk about where and how you met, how your relationship has remained constant even through bad times, and what your love has meant to each other. You can get straight to the point just like newspaper articles do.
Give yourself time to think: Take a walk alone, listen to some beautiful inspiring music or just close and lock your door at home so you can be alone. While you’re alone like this, think about all the lovely things about your intended and your relationship. Then turn those into words.
Decide on your topic: This is what you use to say your written vows and it can be kind of challenging. For example, your theme is love but your intended’s gorgeous eyes might be the topic. His or her eyes can be the symbol for your love. You need to figure out something new. Use the trait that makes your love special. Anything that lets you be creative will work.
Select your style: There are various styles that poems are written in. These can be tradition, modern or post-modern. Work out a rough draft in the styles you feel comfortable with and then select the one you like best. Some people like sonnets of Shakespeare while other people prefer to experiment with other forms. The important thing is to make sure that you’re comfortable with the style because you’re the one that will be speaking these vows to your intended in front of many guests. So you want to be sure that it sounds like you.
In the end, it all comes down looking into your heart and writing down what you feel there. That will give you the beautiful vows you were trying to find.
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Don’t worry if you don’t consider yourself a writer. Let your heart speak to you and the words will come. However imperfect the words may seem to you, write your own vows. Say in less than a page what your heart is bursting to express. Now is not the time to hold back. Speak of the nature of love, is it like a quiet forest, a raging fire, or a deep ocean that no one else can see but the two of you? When did you know that love had come? How did it feel? Did you feel lucky or scared or surprised? When the night comes and you are alone together, prepared to look forward to a life together, to plan, to sing quietly together, to find that nothing beautiful is worth seeing until you call the other to see — these are the reasons your hearts have learned. Share them. Words are only words, and they always fail. Don’t let that stop you from doing your very best to tell your friends and family that love has come, and it stands before them, as real as the land, as big as the sky.