Hello ladies,
I'm getting married this Saturday and I just finished writing my wedding vows.
The problem is that I'm Italian and I'm marrying an American guy and I'm not sure weather I really understand how to write vows as we don't do it in my country and above all, as English is not my native language, I'd really appreciate somebody reviewing the "niceness" of my writing.
So here is what I wrote
In you I've found my rock and you soon became the man that I want to spend the rest of my life with. There is so much about you that I find to be extraordinary, but it's for the little things that I truly love you, including all of the weird ones.
I promise to always appreciate and cherish the simplicity of our relationship.
And I promise to care for you and to be by your side, no matter what. Especially when things get hard, like when we ran out of chocolate or a pandemic forces all of the sushi restaurants to close to the public: or when you ask for a back rub in the middle of the night.
But above all, I promise to always believe in us and to never stop trying, doing my best to keep building the home and family we both waited so long for.
Now, my question is: is this kind of composition appropriate? Are vows said as an alternative to "I take you as my husband, etc." which is very formal or it's more of an "extra"? Surfing the web, I found things that sound really formal and other that are very "real", funny or personal and I'm not sure which kind to go for.
As for the text itself, please girls let me know if any part of it sounds weird or if you have any suggestion on other words or constructions that might sound more "natural" or simply nicer.
I spend something like 4 hours on those 10 lines and I feel like it doesn't sound special at all. :-(
