Your wedding words will depend on your comfort level about speaking
in public Some brides and grooms look forward to expressing their love and commitment in public, but others freeze at the thought of writing, remembering and then reciting their personal message. Let's be clear about this. If writing your own vows is upsetting and going to spoil the service for you, do not do it. For those who look forward to this public expression of their love, spend the time to get it right and make it appropriate to the occasion.
Examples:
What lies behind us and what lies before
us are tiny matters compared to what lies
within us. Ralph Waldo Emerson
You are more myself than I am. Whatever
our souls are made of, yours and mine
are the same. You are always in my mind,
not as a pleasure to myself but as my own
being. Adapted from Emily Bronte,
Wuthering Heights
I carry your heart with me. I carry it in my
heart. I am never without it. Anywhere I go,
you go, my dear; and whatever is done by
only me is your doing, my darling.
Adapted from e.e. cummings