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Remember: There are many different translations of the Bible. While we've noted the versions below, be sure to use the translation that makes the most sense for you, your beliefs, and your ceremony. Read on for some of our favorite Bible verses for marriage vows, accompanied by their moder...
For both modern marriage vows and traditional marriage vows you have reached amilestone in your relationship together. Once the vows are said you cross over a threshold as you pass from the world of singleness into the world of being a couple. You will always look back on the day you said...
Traditional, formal presentation of the bride price (also known as "sin sot" or "dowry") at an engagement ceremony in ThailandIn other cultures, the groom or his family were expected to pay a bride price to the bride's family for the right to marry the daughter, or dower, which was ...
Imagine how much more gravely they apply to the one to whom God joined me under solemn vows! Sure, there’s that phrase “objectively valid reason.” A lot can hinge on that. Maybe there really are—no, really—objective reasons to cavil about the spouse between rounds of poker or ...
Same-sex marriage; gay men giving their wedding vows. Credit. Dreamstime. In the late 1700s, something disturbing happened to marriage in Western societies: It began to change. Young people had revolutionary new ideas about the institution and what it meant to them. ...
A new reality comes into being when vows are exchanged and it is this new reality that justifies sexual intimacy between the spouses. Prior to the wedding there was no permanence, afterwards there is. The permanence of the relationship rests upon the free choice of the spouses. And because ...
s love enhances all other loves. It gives to tolerance and understanding in times of stress. The song ‘I love you truly’ is one that expresses one’s feelings long after the initial vows are made. The experiences of life–and the expressions of love–tend to merge two people into one...
And strongly ratify our hearts' true vows, Which no external violence shall dissolve." And to-day, Ellen Key, the distinguished prophet of marriage reform, declares at the end of her Liebe und Ehe that the true marriage law contains only the paragraph: "They who love each other are husba...
Larry and I literally had to re-learn how to love each other. We didn’t know that every sexual union was meant to be a renewal of our marriage vows; we had never heard that real love is free, total, faithful, and fruitful. We didn’t understand why the Church says what it says,...