Using the 10 Commandments to Write Your Wedding Vows

I wrote The 10 Commandments of Marriage for my daughter's wedding where I was the officiating minister. Look through the commandments and see how you can use some of them and incorporate them into your wedding vows.

THE 10 COMMANDMENTS OF MARRIAGE

1. Honor thyself. When you hold yourself high with integrity and self respect and never compromise your values you can trust each other absolutely.

2. Honor each other. Do not hesitate to see more in each other than what is presented at face value. Look deep. People tend to live up to our expectations of them.

3. Live with gratitude for all things. An attitude of gratitude is the highest emotion there is and that energy will attract more of its own. Life is a lot easier to live when you are happy, which is another name for gratitude.

4. Do little things for each other.

5. Go out on dates.

6. Never go to bed angry with each other. Because talking it out will save you time, energy and mistakes the next day.

7. Keep hopes and dreams in front of you, as an individual and as a couple. You need dreams to keep you truly alive and vital. They help you create passion; for life and for each other.

8. Listen to each other and your children. What you give your attention to grows. It doesn’t matter if it’s a plant, a bank account, your marriage, or your children.

9. Look at the solution and not at the problem. When you focus on the solution, ideas and opportunities will present themselves in unusual and magical ways.

10. Thou shall lighten up and laugh often. Especially at yourself.

2006© Rev. Linda A. Bardes

Love, light and laughter,
Rev. Linda