Wedding and Ring Vows (I do vs. repeat vs. recite)?

We repeated after the officiant...it was a last minute change because we were both so hyped up we needed that bit of pressure taken off

We are saying "I Do" for our ring exchange....and then we are repeating after the officiant for our vows.

Love your vows. Simple, elegant, to the point. Very nice.

Well, we are going to write something nice to each other at the request of my FH. <3 Then, I want to repeat after the officiant so that we actually say these things to each other as opposed to a simple agreement of "I Do". I want to say the words and I want to hear the words come from his mouth. TGo me it's the most beautiful part of the ceremony.

We are writing our own vows and I guess the ring exchange would be a repeat after the officiant. Here is the ring exchange we are thinking:

"With this ring, I am giving you my promise to always love you, cherish you, honor you and comfort you. I will always be grateful for your presence in my life."

We still are working on getting the ceremony all done but we've got a few ideas written down.

We are doing our own vows. Then during the ring exchange repeating.

We are repeating the following after the officient:

"__________, I give you this ring as a symbol of love. As it encircles your finger, may it remind you always that you are surrounded by my eternal love. Whenever you look at it, may it remind you of the vows we make today."

Our officient has a lot of samples of different aspects of teh ceremony and I thought it said eaxactly what we wanted to convey. We thought about writing our own vows but I think I want to keep that part private unto ourselves and write how we feel in a letter to the other that we will personally read rin that last bit of reflectiontime before the ceremony.

We will have our own vows that we read to each other, then for the ring part, the officiant will do the talking, and we will only say 'I do'.

Some of my couples repeat the vows and rings after me; some read them from cards or from an antique book (I print them out and paste them in there....) some simply say 'I will"in agreement.

But no one memorizes either. Bad idea.

Thanks! @Courtney B

@Shannon I like your ring exchange wording

@Celia Milton I can't imagine trying to memorize my vows, thank goodness my officiant prints them for us. I like the idea of the antique book rather than a note card.

Since your hands will be busy putting rings on each other, it would be difficult to hold a card and read from it at the same time. It's usually easier to repeat after the officiant the ring exchange verbiage.

@Nancy T Great point! I think we've decided to repeat after the officiant for the ring exchange.