Vows Mini Series - Repeat After Me

Amanda explores the art of "repeat after me" wedding vows in this episode of the Vow mini-series, offering practical guidance for creating simple yet meaningful promises that couples can easily repeat during their ceremony.

• Part of a six-week deep dive into different wedding vow options
• Explains how any traditional or custom vow can be adapted into a repeat-after-me format
• Highlights the importance of clear pronunciation, slow speech, and simple word groupings
• References the famous "Friends" episode where Ross mistakenly says Rachel's name
• Provides a sample vow that can be broken into approximately 15 manageable couplets
• Demonstrates how vows can be customized with personal references while maintaining simplicity
• Advises against using lengthy, complex vows for the repeat-after-me format

Keep thinking of vows, and until next time, this has been Amanda.

Chapters

• 0:00 Welcome to Vow Mini-Series
• 0:46 Understanding Repeat After Me Vows
• 1:32 Example Vow Structure
• 3:17 Final Thoughts and Sign-Off

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:00

Welcome to the Vow mini-series on the WeddingWare, with Officiating by Amanda. We are doing a little six-week, just a little deep dive into vows and some of the different vow options you might want for your wedding ceremony. If you're new and joining us in, my name is Amanda. I'm a wedding officiant and I started this podcast in January to tell some stories, share some insights, advice, just laugh and preserve the memories. And after our first 25 episodes, with some added in bonuses, I'm taking a little midsummer hiatus and just going over some vows.

Speaker 1: 0:46

This week we are adjusting more to repeat after me vows. So, as I said before, you could take any traditional vow or any vow that even is customized that I wrote or that a couple writes and you can, within reason, customize the I wrote or that a couple writes and you can, within reason, turn it into a repeat after me. What that means is I say it first and the couple repeats it. This is very common in church-based weddings. It's comically, because this is the thought that just came to my head. It is what we see in friends the I ross, hi ross, take the emily, take the rachel, and that comedic moment. So the thing with repeat after me vows, both mindful for the couple as well as mindful for me as an officiant, is clear pronunciation, slow speech and break the words into very simple couplets, which is why this is not ideal for very long vows like the one last week, with all the joys and sorrows, happiness, hardships, faithful promises, goals, dreams yeah, not ideal to make that happen.

Speaker 1: 2:12

So I've got one for you today, once again. These could easily be turned into I do's, they could easily be printed out and given to a couple to read out, but these are ones I've often had as repeat after me's I blank choose you blank to be my husband or wife in front of our family and friends. I promise to love and cherish you throughout the good times and the bad times. I promise to remember this day with love and roses. I will love you always and you can work with your officiant or, as an officiant, you can work with a couple to adjust some of those words to make it better for you.

Speaker 1: 3:08

Promise to remember this day with love and chocolates, with candy and flowers, with hugs and kisses. You know whatever makes sense. But you don't want to get much longer than this. It's three, no four sentences that can be broken down to. When did I do 15 couplets or so, about four to five words in each couplet, and just let it be so. That's what I got for you today. Keep thinking of vows, and until next time, this has been Amanda.