Anyone writing your own vows or letters to each other?

We're doing our own vows. nothing too long, but sweet

Also, I've never been to a wedding where the bride and groom wrote their own vows. As a guest, how would you feel about this? Would you enjoy it or not care? I'm curious if listening to vows written by the bride and groom come off a bit cheesy, or if guests genuinely like them.

I really like hearing a couple's vows they wrote. They are usually so much more personal and fit their relationship. FH and I are writing our own vows. for this very reason.

We wrote our own vows. We kept it short and sweet. As a guest, I loved hearing the couple's personal vows. It made the ceremony more personal and enjoyable, especially when you know the couple well.

We wrote our own vows, and it was perfect and I'm really glad we did - it made it much more personal for us. We planned on exchanging letters to one another but logistically it just didn't work out. We exchanged letters when we came back from the honeymoon.

We are writing our own vows. I have been to weddings where the couple has done their own, and other where they do the standard say-and-repeat style. One wedding I attended the vows were soooo long. They each told their love story and it was so unnecessary. 8 lines is what we are going with.

We are writing our own vows. I am also writing her a private letter to go with the boudoir photo book I had made. I love the idea of personalizing our vows to fit the promises we are making to each other.

We're writing letters to each other, but we're using traditional vows.

We wrote our own vows. I have only been to one wedding where the bride and groom didn't, and I didn't care for it at all. It felt super impersonal.

I have some advice for writing your own, if you decide to go that route. Avoid being super-duper, over-the-top sappy. Keep it concise. I am proud to say that we got great feedback on ours. We each wrote ours with the same general format: a couple of lines about valuing the relationship, 3 lines of promises (two of them serious and one lighthearted), and then ending on "with this ring, I invite you to..." statement about our future together.

We are writing letters and giving them to each other before the ceremony and reciting traditional vows. I absolutely did not want to write our own vows.

I went to a wedding a few weeks ago where the couple decided to do their own vows. Although it was sweet, I personally believe that that kind of thing is better off through a letter or a time where the couple is having a more private moment.

With that being said my wedding is just four weeks away. I am doing the traditional wedding vows at a Catholic Church ceremony and will have a handwritten letter for my soon-to-be husband to read!

@Olivia I started writing mine super early too and I have just been editing and finalizing. Glad I am not alone!

We wrote our own vowels and I loved everything about it. They were short and sweet. Our guests loved them, there was plenty of tears and laughter. After we finished our officiant even said "and that ladies and gentleman is why you should write your own vows" lol

We wrote our own vows. Short and sweet. It was much more personal to us and reflected our relationship.

We wrote our own vows. It was really hard for me to cut them down to a reasonable length, but I was happy to say those vows instead of traditional ones. We wrote them separately, but we were in tears when we read them because it sounded as if we wrote them together.

We are writing our own vows and intend on keeping them short but adorable. We have so many family members from the others family that we have not met its really a time that means so much and wanted everyone attending to have not only the wedding to be a part of but also our vows.

I dont want it tooooo sappy, because that whole make up thing totally scares me! We did not just pay for runny mascara!!!!!

Not going to lie...these posts are making me think "Maybe I DO want us to write our own vows," ha! If we do, we'd definitely keep them short and sweet. I need to give myself a limit because I already know I am a wordy person.

Did you all memorize your vows or read them off of a note? I'm a horrible public speaker and I'd be too afraid I'd get nervous and forget everything in the moment haha.

Yes, we are writing our own vows (tear)

We read them off a note card.

We did the letters since we had a Catholic ceremony where we can't personalize vows. But I'm so glad we wrote letters it was sweet.