Gay vows
From the Archive: Comical WOMEN #106: Homosexual Wedding Vows
This piece was first published on September 10, 2013.
“The ruling will force the federal government to identify same-sex relationships as ‘marriages’ in the few outlier states that have bought into the rest and rejected thousands of years of history and usual sense. And it will create chaos as same-sex couples move to other states that own held true, and demand the alike recognition from and in those states.” – Brian Brown, President of the National Organization for Marriage, in response to The Supreme Court’s decision to invalidate Section 3 of The Defense of Marriage Act
Denise and Laura
I, Denise, seize you, Laura, to be my wedded wife. With the deepest joy I come into my new life with you, a being of knocking on church doors and sticking our tongues down each other’s throats as soon as a congregate member answers. As you have pledged to me your life and admire , so I too happily give you my life, and in confidence submit myself to methodically carrying out our plan to shatter into straight homes, confiscate all bibles and burn them in a queer woman bonfire while chanting penis-shrinking incantati
Vows (for a gay wedding)
What was unforeseen is now a bird orbiting this field.
What wasn’t a possibility is show in our arms.
It shall be and it begins with you.
Our often-misunderstood kind of love deems dangerous.
How it frightens and confounds and enrages.
How strange, unfamiliar.
Our care for carries all those and the contrary.
It is most incandescent.
So, I vow to be brave.
Clear a path through jungles of shame and doubt and fear.
I’m done with silence. I proclaim.
It shall be and it sings from within.
Truly we are enraptured
With Whitmanesque urge and urgency.
I vow to love in all seasons.
When you’re summer, I’m watermelon balled up in a sky-blue bowl.
When I’m autumn, you’re foliage ablaze in New England.
When in winter, I am the tender scarf of warm mercies.
When in spring, you are the bourgeoning buds.
I vow to love you in all places.
High plains, prairies, hills and lowlands.
In our dream-laden bed,
Cradled in the nest
Of your neck.
Deep in the plum.
It shall be and it flows with you.
We’ll leap over the waters and barbaric rooftops.
You embrace my resilient metropolis.
I adore your nouri
These are the vows we wrote for each other, and shared during our ceremony, which you can read more about here. We’ve had a lot of people ask us for help with writing theirs since we posted these, so we’ve decided to start a little service. Click here to contact us and find out more.
We read our vows to each other from ribbons we’d written them on. 7 metres each! The ribbons we used were from here. Tiny tip: only write on them with biro or ballpoint, or the ink will bleed! You could also use these ribbons for a handfasting if you wanted!
Gemma’s Vows
Before we met my ideas about what a relationship could be were so limited and unimaginative in comparison to what we hold together. I didn’t know there could be such a rainbow of happiness and that someone could know and love me as intimately and completely as you do.
The years we’ve spent together have been the most beautiful of my being. Years where I’ve laughed more than ever, grown and learnt more than ever, and where I’ve felt freer than ever to be myself.
I want to thank you for choosing me to be your person. And for your constant and unwavering creed in me, including when I was ill
Same Gender Wedding Ceremony
Word of welcome
My label is (Officiant), and I have the privilege of demonstrating this ceremony today. On behalf of (Partner 1) and (Partner 2), welcome and thank you for being here.
They are thrilled that you are here today to divide in their happiness during this marvelous moment in their lives.
By your presence, you celebrate with them the adore they have discovered in each other and you help their decision to commit themselves to one another for the rest of their lives.
The greatest happiness of existence is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves. If there is anything surpass than being loved, it is loving.
This afternoon we are here to rejoice love. We reach together to witness and proclaim the joining together of these two people in marriage.
This is the union of two individuals in heart, body, intellect, and spirit, Therefore, marriage is not to be entered into lightly, but reverently, honestly, and deliberately. And it is into this union that (Partner 1) and (Partner 2) come now to be joined.
Reading
Now a reading that express the feeling of joy and love on this occasion. It is called 'To My Friend':
I love you not only for what you