Anyone NOT writing their own vows?

For me I want to say yes and no. I actually wrote our whole ceremony (my FIL officiated so I was able to create the whole ceremony so I just technically I wrote our vows) but DH and I did the whole "repeat after me" vows. I knew I was going to be emotional and felt that the "repeat after me" vows would be easier to "get through" without sobbing or becoming incoherent.

I copy and pasted from something I found online.

I have found some cute non traditional vows that i may alter to make it more personal, i wouldn't be able to write them from scratch.

We're not, but we're also having a traditional Catholic wedding (not mass) where you can't do your own vows.

I'm also partial to traditional vows just because I find something really romantic about saying the same words couples have been using for years. lol idk... Also I would be extremely nervous to say personal vows in front of 120 people, there's no way I could memorize them AND I already know I'm going to be a mess so holding a paper while I'm probably shaking is just not going to be pretty!

Done well I think its really beautiful but just not for me lol I think it just depends on the couple

We are just going with the traditional vows. FH is not a speaker and we both love what they say

We will be having a traditional catholic ceremony so personal vows are kind of a no-go. I'm not a huge fan of personal vows anyway for us, I think I would get even more nervous. Plus I like the idea of the traditional vows, I like the connection it has with the past.

We sre not as well. Our officiant gaves us options to chiose from. We went with traditional vows. Ill be too nervous to recite my own!

We're not. Our pastor gave us a few different options that we picked from. We kind of mixed and matched a few phrases that we liked best.

We are not. FH is a horrible public speaker so I did not want the solidified part of our wedding to be fh: "ummmm uhhhhh I ummmmm promise. To ummmmm. Sigh. I can. I mean will. I mean promise ughhhhh ummmm errrra." I don't even want to do the repeat after me. Honestly if he is ok with I rather yhe pastor say do you ffw take tw to be your..... and I say "I do" and then he says the same to fh & he says "I do" and that will be the extent of our speaking during the ceremony. He barely made it through the proposal in front of 5 ppl. So if we can avoid him freaking out in front of 200 we will. I also suggested to him we have a private ceremony in our pastor's office here in Houston (since he wont be officiating our new orleans wedding) and really only have a vow renewal in front of everyone else. We left it on the table for discussion.

We're doing traditional...I'd love to say it's because we just care so much about traditional vows or something. But really it's because I don't want to worry about writing them. And yeah, I'd rather keep our special words to each other in private.

We are doing a little combo of traditional and our own. At this point, I want the stress off of me and wanted to just go traditional but FH already wrote most of his allegedly, so I didn't want to bail on him. I'm plagiarizing the F out of mine from stuff I find online. FH is very concerned because he feels my creative/lovey writing is not on par with his. He's not wrong.

We did but I wanted to. A wedding I was in last September they only said "I do" because they were too nervous to say anything else

We're not writing ours. We're not necessarily using the traditional vows, but we found ours online. They're a little different, but neither of us are really the sappy type...especially when it's in front of 175 people.

I'm going to be a nervous and emotional wreck so we decided to stick to traditional vows. We'll be writing letters to eachother to read the morning of the wedding

I found several things online, put them together, and then we just repeated after the minister.

We aren't. I chose some I thought fit us well, and we're going to repeat after the officiant. Neither of us is great in front of people, so I know we'd be a mess if we tried to a) memorize or b) read something mushy we wrote.

Nope, we're going to go traditional.

We did not write our own vows. No offense to anyone who writes their own, but I think they end up kind of cheesey most of the time! H and I wrote each other cards on the wedding day that said a lot of things personalized vows probably would. We went with traditional vows, but we hand-picked them and the exact wording. Our officiant had PAGES of resources for us to choose from but we weren't limited to those options.

FH said no to writing vows because he "almost failed English" haha. So we're going traditional

I love when coupes write their own vows, but about half of my couples choose to either repeat after me or just say, "I do" in response to the vow questions from me.

Don't add additional stress to your life if you don't feel comfortable. You'll be just as married at the end of the day, and DO NOT try to memorize them.