Invitation Warehouse Contributor/Blogger
So you’ve met the perfect guy and you’ve planned the
perfect wedding. You purchased the
perfect invitation; from InvitationWarehouse.com of course and now the big
day’s quickly approaching. But there’s
just one problem. You haven’t written
your wedding vows. I mean who needs them
anyway. You love him. He loves you.
Enough said, right? Not so fast.
What’s a wedding vow anyway? Well according to my research, during the Roman Empire a bride’s father would take the liberty to
find his daughter a man. Then this
liberal, man choosing dad would give his ‘no-choice-in-the-matter’ of a daughter
to her ‘Yeah baby! (in my Austin Powers voice) of a husband-to-be in what was
commonly referred to as a ‘vow of marriage by mutual consent.’
The two would then wed and live happily or miserably ever
after; considering the bride had no say so in her new hubby. This ‘vow of marriage by mutual consent’ was
used quite considerably for the lower classes.
In our modern vernacular it would be for the low income to middle classes. However, the bougie or the bourgeois took
marriage vows to a whole ‘nother level. (We’ll
discuss that in later posts.)
So technically bride-to-be, you’re already in a ‘vow of
marriage by mutual consent’ with your fiancée; simply because you said yes when
he bowed his knee and because you're rocking that fabulous ring. Okay? Finger
snap! What you’re sweating about now is more of an Anglican tradition. ‘So what’s that?’ Hold on girlfriend, we’ll get there but for
now just know that you’re more than half way there and throughout our next
posts, we’ll walk you through it.
In fact, if you need help writing them, our own resident
Invitation Warehouse Contributor and Blogger, can help you out; just be sure to
contact our boutique at (214)381-6367 and let one of our Invitation Consultants
know that you have a 1-1-9; I mean a 9-1-1 Vow Writing Emergency and we’ll come
to the rescue.
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