Debra Stockwell

If your wedding vows take who each of you are alone and together into consideration, if they are based on your values, your beliefs, your talents and your dreams, then there is only one thing that you need to make your marriage last forever:

Your dedication to keeping the promises that bind your lives together.

Your wedding vows are a whole, they must be kept as a whole. The minute you start saying, well, this clause doesn’t really matter, the vows start to crumble. What you promised one another in your wedding ceremony, what your community witnessed, they are the wedding vows you must keep.

That’s why it’s so important that you spend such careful time and attention crafting these vows. That’s why you want to spend time in your wedding ceremony talking about community support and emphasizing the importance of your friends and families’ presence as you make those vows to one another. You want support on your wedding day and for the rest of your life.

It’s not always going to be easy to keep those vows. There will be difficulties and there will be temptations. Guaranteed. But your integrity lies in those vows. And that’s why every time you chip away at them, by sniping at your mate or being disrespectful, or not noticing, or whatever little thing you’re doing, you need and want to catch yourself. Treat your partner as precious and wonderful. Treat yourself as smart and lucky to have made the decision to join your life with your beloved’s. Act that way, and it will be that way.

Be thrilled that you are the kind of person who knows how to keep a promise, and you will be the kind of person who always does. It’s not healthy not to keep your promises and tell the truth. Did you know that an MRI can tell from brain activity when you’re lying? You may not know. You may have convinced yourself that you’re telling the truth. But the brain knows. And the brain tells the body and the body pays a price.

You are entering into the most amazing marriage. You created a wedding ceremony to help your friends understand why it was so special and to invite them to support you and your promises. You crafted wedding vows that will bring you your most heartfelt dreams. Now it’s up to you to joyfully keep those promises and live happily and healthily into love and marriage.

Bottom Line?: Give your relationship the chance it deserves to succeed wildly, against all odds! After all, you deserve it. Your relationship deserves it! And now I’d like to invite you to sign up to receive 2 free templates for creating the wedding ceremony of your dreams, the wedding vows of your heart and the marriage of a lifetime: http://annkeelerevans.org/weddings/free

The Rev. Ann Keeler Evans – helping you move from “I do” to happily and healthily ever after!

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