I Promise
Dorothy Colgan
I promise to give you the best of myself
and to ask of you no more than you can give
I promise to respect you as your own person
and to realise that your interests, desires and needs
are no less important than my own
I promise to share with you my time and my attention
and to bring joy, strength and imagination to our relationship
I promise to keep myself open to you,
to let you see through the windown of my world into my innermost fears
and feelings, secrets and dreams
I promise to grow along with you,
to be willing to face changes in order to keep our relationship alive and exciting
I promise to love you in good times and in bad,
with all I have to give and all I feel inside in the only way I know how
Completely and forever
Dorothy Colgan
I promise to give you the best of myself
and to ask of you no more than you can give
I promise to respect you as your own person
and to realise that your interests, desires and needs
are no less important than my own
I promise to share with you my time and my attention
and to bring joy, strength and imagination to our relationship
I promise to keep myself open to you,
to let you see through the windown of my world into my innermost fears
and feelings, secrets and dreams
I promise to grow along with you,
to be willing to face changes in order to keep our relationship alive and exciting
I promise to love you in good times and in bad,
with all I have to give and all I feel inside in the only way I know how
Completely and forever
This reading's been saved in my folder for ages!! I love it and somehow feel it could also work as a vow. It pretty much reads like a vow to me and it encapsulate everything we are now and everything I want us to be when we get married. If I use this as a vow though, do I have to replace the "promise" with "vow"??
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no, i don't think so, maybe you could just once or twice if you want to on the ones that are most important to you, or at the end to add emphasis, but neither word is used in the traditional wedding ceremony at all, they are just called the vows. they're lovely!
ReplyDeleteHeyyy, you're absolutely right! Most, if not all vows don't have the word 'vow' in them... why did I even think that?? Lolz... but I love your idea of using them to emphasise certain parts. Going to look into it now. Yippee!
ReplyDeleteIt's such a cute poem!
ReplyDeleteA wonderfully sweet and heartfelt piece.
ReplyDeleteDef don't need to change the words. Love it!
p.s. theres a little present for you over at my blog, if you want to go look :) x
ReplyDeleteWhat a great reading (and believe me I know how difficult they are to find!). I say stick to promise :)
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