If you are getting married in the Church of England, the vows you say will follow almost exactly the ones which appear below. If you plan to marry in a different religious building, or in a registry office or on an ice plain in Antarctica, the vows might be different, or you might like to write your own. Click here from a simple guide to writing your own vows from about.com.

The minimum legal requirements for wedding vows can be found here.

Wherever you get married, it is worth checking that the Officiant (Priest, Minister, Registrar, etc) is aware of which vows are to be used prior to the day. Make sure you know beforehand if you will be repeating the vows line for line, or memorising the vows to recite without a prompt. And then... practise!

The 2001 Church of England Marriage Service

The priest says to the bridegroom:

N, will you take N to be your wife? Will you love her, comfort her, honour and protect her, and, forsaking all others, be faithful to her as long as you both shall live?

He answers:

I will

The priest says to the bride:

N, will you take N to be your husband? Will you love him, comfort him, honour and protect him, and, forsaking all others, be faithful to him as long as you both shall live?

She answers:

I will.

The priest may receive the bride from the hand of her father. The bride and bridegroom face each other.

The bridegroom takes the bride’s right hand in his, and says:

I, N, take you, N,
To be my wife,
To have and to hold
From this day forward,
For better, for worse,
For richer, for poorer,
In sickness and in health,
To love and to cherish,
Till death us do part,
According to God's holy law,
And this is my solemn vow.

The bride takes the bridegroom's right hand in hers, and says;

I, N, take you N,
To be my husband
To have and to hold
From this day forward,
For better, for worse,
For richer, for poorer,
In sickness and in health,
To love and to cherish,
Till death us do part,
According to God's holy law,
And this is my solemn vow