Generic or personal vows?

We were going to write our own, but just surfing wedding stuff online, we found a set of vows that sums it up perfectly. I could care less if everyone or nobody has used them. Maybe you guys can do the traditional vows and add to them at the end. You can always freestyle and say what you feel in that moment!

We did personal. And it was so worth it, many people teared up during our vows. Afterwards, as a wedding gift, our friends (and wedding photographers) made a Shutterfly book with pictures of the wedding and printed our vows to go along with them. Don't worry too much about them, just remember all the things you love about your FH and think about little things he does for you and vice versa. Things that are unique in your relationship. My husband didn't finish his vows till the night before and they came out wonderful.

We're Catholic, we have to use the I do vows, which is awesome to me because I really wanted to say "I do" when I get married

We're using the Episcopal liturgy. I love the ritualistic part of the rite of matrimony as a sacrament, so that makes me happy.

We are doing generic. I am really good at writing, but my fw isn't. I don't plan on wearing my glasses during the ceremony to read from anything. I am afraid I will be crying and wont be able to get the words out if I say my own and I want it to be short and sweet.

We were going to write our own, but neither of us did and the night before, we said fuck it and told the WC we were doing generic, because we were way too lazy and having too much fun at the resort to sit down and do homework. Hahaha.

We had an excellent officiant who made it super sweet, so no regrets!

I don't do well in front of crowds so writing my own wasn't an option. We found some online that have the same sentiment as the traditional vows but are more us. Also didn't want him saying the same vows to me as he did to his ex

Honesty, I would have been happier with either because I think it's still beautiful and personal to say generic vows to each other, so I let Andre pick. He wanted to write our own, so we did. Mine were fairly short. Just how I felt about him and what I wanted him to know.

We're using the traditional ones for our Catholic ceremony.

Ours were personal, though we had two sets of vows, and I don't think anyone knew that the vows we exchanged during the ceremony were written by me (meant to incorporate both of us).

I still had our officiant use the repeat-after-me style, but I was happy to know that the words we were promising held special meaning for us.

I love to express myself through words, so I didn't want to stand up there and vow someone else's promises; I wanted them to be our own.

We had a private personal vow exchange, just me, my husband, and the photographer/videographer.

We stole a few post-ceremony moments just the two of us and read the words that we had written for one another in what became one of my favorite wedding moments.

My husband couldn't finish a single sentence without becoming choked up, and as he is a very private person, I know that he would not have let himself become so emotional if we were surrounded by all of our guests.

I was so incredibly happy that we chose to exchange our personal vows privately, because words seriously can't describe how special and organic this moment was for us, and I know that it wouldn't have been nearly so perfect if we were too worried about everyone's eyes on us to truly focus on the heartfelt promises we were making to one another.

We are doing generic. Though I do like the idea of having a few personal comments made by the officiant about us.

I think personal vows are best left between the couple during a private moment. Many weddings I went to that had personal vows were awful. Many references that the guests don't understand or just plain corny. I don't need to hear about him being "the missing piece to the love puzzle of life" or whatever.

Probably doing generic. I really like the idea of personal vows, but I know I would be an emotional blubbering mess trying to say them so it's probably best we stick with generic. I'm emotional now just thinking about it!

Doing both. I wanted to include the traditional 'forsaking all others' bit/saying 'I do' and then wanted to have something personal too.

We did generic. When we started planning we decided we wanted everything to be traditional and classic including the vows. Personal vows to us just seemed too forced. Like we would be expected to say what our guests wanted to hear and not what we really truly felt in our hearts. We're not mushy people and we've always been pretty private about things like that. I got plenty emotional during our vows regardless of them being generic/traditional

We did our own, not one person had a dry eye in the house and everyone stated how beautiful it was. Just remember vows are promises and that's exactly what we wrote down we wrote what we are going to promise each other for the rest of our lives. Its not that hard just sit down and think what do you want to promise your soon to be husband

FH would like to do personal, i was surprised when it was his idea so I'm definitely going to do personal. If he's passionate about writing his own vows for me, im not missing the opportunity to hear them Such a sweetheart

We're doing personal. Why? Because FH has been telling me for YEARS that he is saving all of his sweet words (like why he loves me) for our wedding day. Every time I ask him why he loves me, he goes "Because you're awesome" and that's it. I can't wait to hear what he comes up with.

We will write personal letters to each other, to read in private. FH isn't as gifted with words like I am and he didnt want to disappoint me with "lame" vows. but we also wrote some that are personal to us, include some hidden disney references, in the repeat after me style, and still get to say i do.

OFFICIANT: Joe do you wish to declare your love with a ring and dedicate yourself as Andi’s husband?

JOE: I do

OFFICIANT: Then repeat after me

I, Joe, take you, Andi, to be my wife

You are my best friend, my partner in crime and my one true love

I promise to encourage & embrace all of your crazy ideas

and inspire you to always dream big.

I will love you when we are together and when we are apart

and I will never run away when life gets tough.

I promise to love you, even when I hate you.

Our life together will be our greatest adventure

because when I am with you, I’m where I’m meant to be.

I give you this ring, to show the world that you are my wife.

then i do the same.

We did generic. I'm too much of a private person to gush my heart out in front of people, even if it's my friends and family. But, the main reason, I knew I would cry like a baby if we had personal vows. When we renew our vows in a few years, privately, on an island somewhere, I will definitely have personalized vows.

We're doing traditional. I think they are perfect and beautiful and cover everything I would want to say. Why change them?