Taken from the HolidayZone.com.
The Christmas Guest
~Helen Steiner Rice
It happened one day at the year’s white end,
Two neighbors called on an old-time friend.
And they found his shop so meager and mean,
Made gay with a thousand boughs of green.

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Here are the traditional wedding vows written out. The “I will” parts for the groom and bride get to the core of the promise that was made before God and the audience:
Exchange of Vows
MINISTER TO GROOM:
Do you GROOM’S NAME take BRIDE’S NAME to be your wife –
to live together after God’s ordinance –
in the holy estate of matrimony?
Will you love her,
comfort her, honor and keep her,
in sickness and in health,
for richer, for poorer,
for better, for worse,
in sadness and in joy,
to cherish and continually bestow upon her your heart’s deepest devotion,
forsaking all others,
keep yourself only unto her as long as you both shall live?
GROOM:
I will.
MINISTER TO BRIDE:
Do you BRIDE’S NAME) take GROOM’S NAME to be your husband –
to live together after God’s ordinance –
in the holy estate of matrimony?
Will you love him,
comfort him,
honor and keep him,
in sickness and in health,
for richer, for poorer,
for better, for worse,
in sadness and in joy,
to cherish and continually bestow upon him your heart’s deepest devotion,
forsaking all others,
keep yourself only unto him as long as you both shall live?
BRIDE:
I will.

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