Resources

Where to start

12 Genius Tips for Writing Your Own Wedding Vows LovestoriesTV

How to Create Your Own Wedding Ceremony Small Shindigs

Sample Wedding Ceremony Scripts and Writing Tips Brides

Our Favorite Real Wedding Vows and How to Write Your Own A Practical Wedding

This article outlines the importance of your vows to the wedding and provides a step by step process alongside links to examples of traditional and contemporary vows to help you begin.

How to Write Wedding Vows and Samples The Spruce

This provides multiple traditional vow transcripts and helps in understanding the differences between traditional and contemporary vows as well as the differences between writing your own vows and utilizing pre-written words.

Everything You Need to Know to Write Your Own Wedding Vows Harper’s Bazaar

Sharing the meaning at the root of writing your own vows and inspiration for getting started, this article prepares and inspires you to sit down and begin writing your vows.

Inspiration

8 Ways to Say I Do: Creative Wedding Vows from Real Brides Brides

This article shares excerpts from contemporary, original, and creative vows with comments included from real brides about their own vow-writing experiences.

Unique Wedding Vows for the Modern Couple Martha Stewart Weddings

This article provides categories of funny, modern, creative, unique, and quirky weddings that share vow examples as well as explain how the vows created the mood for the entire wedding.

11 Traditional Wedding Vows That Will Inspire You A Practical Wedding

This article shares the transcripts for traditional religious vows, which can help you consider the style of vows you would like to incorporate at your wedding.

23 Impossibly Romantic Quotes to Incorporate into Your Wedding Vows Brides

This page shows romantic quotes that can be incorporated into vows or even just used as inspiration for getting started

Vow Delivery

Tips to Nail Delivering the Vows (Without the Tears or Dry Mouth) The Plunge

This article helps explain the logistics of delivering vows and provides some helpful public speaking tips.

Here’s How to Recite those Wedding Vows Like a Pro Wedding Wire

This article explains the best ways to prepare your mind before reciting your vows and tips to keep in mind while speaking.

20 Tips for Mastering the Art of Public Speaking Inc.

Though this article is not directed towards the delivery of vows specifically, as there are not many resources, it includes many specific public speaking tips that can apply to reciting your vows.

LGBT

“The Four Rules of Writing Your Own LBGT Wedding Vows” Wedding Wire

This article gives tips on getting started with writing same sex vows.

“Guide to Writing the Best Lesbian Wedding Vows” Love You Wedding

This article delves into the specifics of vows and ceremony composition, shares information about the use of gender-neutral pronouns and provides examples of quotes.

“3 Same-Sex Wedding Ceremony Script Examples” The Knot

This article includes links to Secular, Unitarian, and Episcopal gay ceremony and vow scripts.

“Pros Share Tips for Writing LBGTQ+ Wedding Vows” Martha Stewart Weddings

This article shares quotes from vow pros about tone, format, and the transparency for same-sex wedding vows.

“11 Great Gay Wedding Vows and Samples” Texas For Marriage

This article shares examples of gay wedding vows and has a video of these vows coming to life in a same sex ceremony.

“Wedding Vows and Speeches” Equality Weddings