wedding vow
Altar-spoken commitment
A wedding vow is a solemn promise made by each partner during a marriage ceremony, pledging commitment, love, and fidelity to the other.
Traditional vows follow religious or civil formulas—to have and to hold, for better or for worse—while many couples now write personalized vows expressing their specific intentions and feelings.
The plural wedding vows typically refers to the exchange as a whole: They wrote their own wedding vows.
Breaking wedding vows, especially through infidelity, is grounds for divorce in many traditions.
- oathFormal binding promise
- pledgeBinding promise given
- trothPledged word of loyalty
- till death do us partMatrimonial permanence oath
- solemnizationFormal ceremony performance
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Court document ending marriage
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Breaking of trust
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