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Authors: Diane Warner

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Chapter 6
Vows for Older Couples
Personalized wedding vows carry special significance when a man or woman finds "the one" much later in life, after many years of searching, or when a man or woman loses a long-time mate to death or divorce, then finds another and marries again. Here are several choices contributed by older brides and grooms.
"____________________, we have suffered much in this life, each in our own way, and what a miracle it is to find each other now, just when we need each other the most. I want to take care of you now, to be your shelter and your light, putting the past behind us as we face a joyous new life together for our remaining years. How I thank God for sending you
 
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to me, to stand beside me, to hold me and to share your life with me. I need you and I love you more than words can say, and I pledge to you now, with this holy vow, to be your true and faithful husband / wife from this day forward and forevermore."
"We have experienced the joys and sorrows of life through our many years on this earth. We have loved and married before and raised our families in the fear of the Lord. And then, in our twilight years, when we least expected it, God, in His divine providence, has brought us together with a love and a joy as fresh as our youth. How I thank God for bringing you to me, my friend, my companion, my precious jewel. I hereby pledge myself to be your faithful husband / wife with a love that will endure for all the rest of our days."
"____________________, I vow to you this day to be your true and faithful husband/wife, and to erase your tears of sorrow, replacing them with the hope and promise of my love for you. I pledge to lift you up, set you on the highest mountain and bring only goodness and joy to you all the days of your life."
"____________________, until you came into my life, my heart was hollow; but your love has filled my heart and made me whole. We have both shed tears of loneliness after the loss of our mates, but our love has chased those shadows away and brought gladness

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