Okay.

I need some major help.  Actually, Jen, this may be useful for you and The Lawyer, as well, when you write your wedding vows.

I’m looking at non-traditional wedding vows, and can’t believe how many of them still include God, Jesus and not a single reference to Domestic Goddesses and Partners!  Sacrilege!

Anyway.

Which is your absolute fave?

DomestiVow #1:

Dear Doctor, I take you to be my husband from this time onward,
to join with you and to share all that is to come, to be your faithful Domesti-wife,
to give and to receive, to speak and to listen, to inspire and to respond;
a commitment made in love, kept in faith, and eternally made new.

DomestiVow #2:

You have become mine forever.
Yes, we have become partners.
I have become yours.
Hereafter, I cannot live without you.
Do not live without me.
Let us share the joys.
We are word and meaning, unite.
You are thought and I am sound.

May the nights be honey-sweet for us.
May the mornings be honey-sweet for us.
May the plants be honey-sweet for us.
May the earth be honey-sweet for us.

(Ahem, clearly I only like this one because it brings up honey every 5 seconds.  As you all know, The Doctor and I love honey and want to be bee-keepers!)

The Doctor and Sue in their 80s!

DomestiVow #3 (Actually called The Eskimo Love Song… Jen, did I ever tell you how I was once mistaken for an Eskimo when I was at a bar in Dublin?):

You are my husband
My feet shall run because of you
My feet shall dance because of you
My heart shall beat because of you
My eyes see because of you
My mind thinks because of you
And I shall love because of you.
DomestiVow #4

To My Dear and Loving Husband, my Anne Bradstreet

If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee;
If ever wife was happy in a man,
Compare with me ye women if you can.
I prize they love more than whole mines of gold,
Or all the riches that the East doth hold.
My love is such that rivers cannot quench,
Nor ought by love from thee give recompense.
Thy love is such I can no way repay;
The heavens reward thee manifold, I pray.
Then while we live, in love let’s so persevere,
That when we live no more we may live ever.

Well?  Any DomestiGal out there want to share their bee-u-ti-ful wedding vows?

Love,

Vowless Sue