50 Wedding Vows for Her: Promises Straight from the Heart

When you love someone with your whole heart, finding the right words can feel like both a gift and a challenge—especially on your wedding day. Vows are your moment to speak your truth, to share the promises that will carry you through every chapter of life together. If you’re searching for the perfect words to say to her—your partner, your best friend, your forever—this list of 50 wedding vows is here to guide and inspire.

These vows are tender, honest, and rooted in the kind of love that grows stronger with time. Whether you’re writing your own or looking for something to spark your creativity, here are 50 ways to say exactly what she means to you.

Wedding Vows for Her

From the moment our paths crossed, you’ve been the peace in my chaos and the spark in my every sunrise. I vow to honor the strength in your softness, to cherish the fire in your soul, and to love you in the loud and quiet spaces of life. I will stand beside you not just in the sunshine, but in the storms, with a love that grows deeper, truer, and braver each day.

I vow to see you fully—flaws and all—and love you more because of them. I will be your best friend, your greatest supporter, and your safe place when the world feels heavy. I promise to build a life with you that feels like home, no matter where we are, and to keep falling in love with the incredible woman that you are.

You are my today and all of my tomorrows. I vow to love you when we are young and wild, and even more fiercely when we are old and grey. I will celebrate your wins, hold you in your sorrows, and cherish your love as the greatest gift of my life.

I vow to love you with the same wonder I felt the day we met, to never stop learning who you are, and to always be your student in the art of love. I promise to grow with you, not away from you, and to build a life rooted in trust, joy, and passion.

You are the calm in my chaos, the voice of reason in my storms. I vow to listen with patience, speak with kindness, and love with intention. I promise to never take your love for granted, and to always protect what we’ve built together.

I promise to love you when life is simple and when it’s not, when we’re laughing until we cry and when we’re crying until we laugh. I vow to be your partner in every sense—equal, present, and endlessly grateful.

With every sunrise, I vow to choose you. Not because I have to, but because loving you is the most natural thing I have ever known. I will always choose you, every day, in every way.

I vow to support your dreams as if they were my own, to cheer you on from the sidelines, and to walk with you when you need someone steady. Your ambition inspires me, and your love empowers me.

I vow to build a life with you that feels like home—full of shared glances, quiet coffee mornings, spontaneous dances in the kitchen, and laughter that lights up the walls.

More than anything, I vow to love you deeply, fiercely, and endlessly—not just in words, but in every action, every decision, every moment we spend together.

Short Wedding Vows for Her

I choose you—today and always—to be the heart I come home to, in every moment and every season.

I vow to hold your hand in joy and sorrow, to laugh loudly, love deeply, and live this beautiful life by your side.

You are my best friend, my heart’s compass, and the only person I want to grow old with.

I promise to be your peace, your partner, and your biggest fan.

I vow to show up for you, love you without condition, and never stop holding your hand.

I choose you for who you are, and for who I become when I’m with you.

I vow to be faithful, to be honest, and to be yours—all of me, always.

I promise to love you through every high, every low, and every beautiful in-between.

I vow to stand with you, dream with you, and walk through life with you.

With you, every day is worth it. And I promise to never stop choosing us.

Religious Wedding Vows

Before God and our loved ones, I vow to love, honor, and cherish you as Christ loves the Church—selflessly and unconditionally. I promise to walk with you in faith, pray with you in hope, and serve with you in love, for all the days of our lives.

God blessed me when He brought you into my life, and today I vow to honor that blessing. I promise to follow His path with you, to keep Him at the center of our marriage, and to trust in His timing, His grace, and His endless love as we build our life together.

Through God’s grace, I promise to be patient and kind, to rejoice in truth, and to bear all things with you. I vow to build a home where Christ is welcome and love is our foundation.

I vow to pray with you, for you, and over our life together. With God as our guide, I promise to walk in faith, never in fear.

Our love is a gift from God, and I vow to treat it as sacred. I will nurture it, honor it, and give thanks for it every day.

I promise to seek God’s wisdom in every season of our marriage and to support you in your own walk with Him.

I vow to forgive as He forgives, to love as He loves, and to keep Him at the center of everything we do.

With God’s love as our anchor, I promise to weather every storm and celebrate every joy hand in hand with you.

I promise to serve our love with grace, humility, and unwavering faith in what God has joined together.

In His presence, I give you my heart, my soul, and every breath of my future.

Wedding Vows from Book Quotes

“As you wish.” (The Princess Bride) These three simple words mean I love you. They mean I will always listen, support, and stand by you. I vow to say them often—sometimes silently, always sincerely—as a lifelong promise that loving you is my greatest honor.

“I have waited for this opportunity for more than half a century, to repeat to you once again my vow of eternal fidelity and everlasting love.” (Love in the Time of Cholera) I vow to love you with that same devotion—through every chapter, every trial, and every beautiful page of our story.

“I would rather share one lifetime with you than face all the ages of this world alone.” (The Lord of the Rings) I vow to make our time together rich, full, and unforgettable.

“You are my heart, my life, my one and only thought.” (The White Company) I vow to center my world around you, always.

“Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.” (Wuthering Heights) I vow to love you with a soul-deep passion that nothing can undo.

“You have bewitched me, body and soul, and I love—I love—I love you.” (Pride and Prejudice) I vow to let you enchant me, challenge me, and change me with your love.

“Because when I look at you, I can feel it. And I look at you, and I’m home.” (Finding Nemo) I vow to always come home to your heart.

“Once in a while, right in the middle of an ordinary life, love gives us a fairy tale.” (Anonymous) I vow to write that fairy tale with you.

“In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed.” (Pride and Prejudice) I vow to love you fearlessly, with no restraint.

“I wanted it to be you. I wanted it to be you so badly.” (You’ve Got Mail) I vow to never stop being thankful that it’s you.

Wedding Vows Poems for Her

“I Love You” by Roy Croft
I love you,
Not only for what you are,
But for what I am when I am with you.
I love you,
Not only for what you have made of yourself,
But for what you are making of me.
I love you for the part of me that you bring out;
I love you for putting your hand into my heaped-up heart
And passing over all the foolish, weak things
That you can’t help dimly seeing there,
And for drawing out into the light
All the beautiful things that no one else had looked
Quite far enough to find.
I love you because you have done
More than any creed
Could have done
To make me good,
And more than any fate could have done
To make me happy.

“Devoted” by Lori Eberhai
My heart can be your home,
My soul can be your refuge.
You can turn to me when you are weak,
You can call to me when the way is not clear.
I will be your promise and your prayer,
I will always be there,
Constant and complete.
Run to me,
Reach out for me,
And I will love you in a unique and tender way.
Bring your love to me,
Share your love with me,
Sing your love to me,
And I will offer you peace, ease, and comfort.

“To My Dear and Loving Husband” by 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 thy 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 but 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.

“Love” by Roy Croft
I love you,
Not only for what you are,
But for what I am when I am with you.
I love you,
Not only for what you have made of yourself,
But for what you are making of me.
I love you for the part of me that you bring out.

“The Art of Marriage” by Wilferd A. Peterson
The little things are the big things.
It is never being too old to hold hands.
It is remembering to say “I love you” at least once a day.
It is never going to sleep angry.
It is at no time taking the other for granted;
the courtship should not end with the honeymoon,
it should continue through all the years.
It is having a mutual sense of values and common objectives.
It is standing together facing the world.
It is forming a circle of love that gathers in the whole family.
It is doing things for each other, not in the attitude
of duty or sacrifice, but in the spirit of joy.
It is speaking words of appreciation and
demonstrating gratitude in thoughtful ways.
It is not expecting the husband to wear a halo
or the wife to have the wings of an angel.
It is not looking for perfection in each other.
It is cultivating flexibility, patience,
understanding and a sense of humor.
It is having the capacity to forgive and forget.
It is giving each other an atmosphere in which
each can grow.
It is finding room for the things of the spirit.
It is a common search for the good and the beautiful.
It is establishing a relationship in which the independence
is equal, dependence is mutual and the obligation is reciprocal.
It is not only marrying the right partner,
it is being the right partner.

“Sonnet 116” by William Shakespeare
Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove.
O no! it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken.
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth’s unknown, although his height be taken.
Love’s not Time’s fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle’s compass come.
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.

“Love Is Friendship Caught Fire” by Laura Hendricks
Love is friendship caught fire;
it is quiet, mutual confidence,
sharing and forgiving.
It is loyalty through good and bad times.
It settles for less than perfection,
and makes allowances for human weaknesses.
Love is content with the present,
hopes for the future, and does not brood over the past.
It is the day-in and day-out chronicles of irritations,
problems, compromises, small disappointments,
big victories, and working toward common goals.
If you have love in your life,
it can make up for a great many things you lack.
If you do not have it,
no matter what else there is, it is not enough.

“I Carry Your Heart With Me” by E.E. Cummings
I carry your heart with me (I carry it in
my heart) I am never without it (anywhere
I go you go, my dear; and whatever is done
by only me is your doing, my darling)
I fear no fate (for you are my fate, my sweet)
I want no world (for beautiful you are my world, my true)
and it’s you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you
here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows
higher than soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that’s keeping the stars apart
I carry your heart (I carry it in my heart)

“Love Sonnet XVII” by Pablo Neruda
I don’t love you as if you were a rose of salt, topaz,
or arrow of carnations that propagate fire.
I love you as one loves certain obscure things,
secretly, between the shadow and the soul.
I love you as the plant that doesn’t bloom but carries
the light of those flowers, hidden, within itself,
and thanks to your love the tight aroma that arose
from the earth lives dimly in my body.
I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you directly without problems or pride:
I love you like this because I don’t know any other way to love,
except in this form in which I am not nor are you,
so close that your hand upon my chest is mine,
so close that your eyes close with my dreams.

“She Walks in Beauty” by Lord Byron
She walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies,
And all that’s best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes;
Thus mellowed to that tender light
Which heaven to gaudy day denies.
One shade the more, one ray the less,
Had half impaired the nameless grace
Which waves in every raven tress,
Or softly lightens o’er her face—
Where thoughts serenely sweet express
How pure, how dear their dwelling-place.
And on that cheek, and o’er that brow,
So soft, so calm, yet eloquent,
The smiles that win, the tints that glow,
But tell of days in goodness spent,
A mind at peace with all below,
A heart whose love is innocent.