ashleyw44's Pink wedding

My fiance and I agreed to do our own, personalized vows. Unbeknownst to me until a few weeks ago, he's been working on his vows, he wants to keep them secret. I'm a creative writing minor--but it makes me really nervous to write my own vows. It's a very personal subject for me. I'm not sure if I want everyone to hear it during the ceremony or if I want to keep it just for him. It's hard to explain. I ordered a few (very cheap, not more than 80 cents) ceremony books from amazon.com. Two have come in and they're not the best help. Maybe, seeing as he's not that into it, you could write your vows together? Here are some sites:
www.myweddingvows.com/
www.brilliantweddingpages.com/couples/sample_vows.asp
www.foreverwed2.com/Religious_Ceremonies/index.html

Thanks for the input about the rehearsal dinner.
Scott's favorite food is pizza or lasagna. So I'll bring it up to him, I think he'll like the make your own pizza idea too!

This is either a hit or a miss. One wedding I've been to the groom was so nervous not only he couldn't remember the vows he had a hard time reading them. It was somewhat sweet but the look on the brides face was that of devastation.

Others were corny as heck.

Now there are these rare few that when done just right will bring everyone to tears and on their feet at the end.

We're getting married in a Catholic church, I haven't spoken to a priest yet about writing or changing classic vows that the church uses. Ultimately I do want to "repeat" after the priest and add something that we write to it as well.

Make sure your groom is 100% on board, its more important that he feels comfortable than squirming through something just to make you happy.

I found a website that has ribbon even cheaper than the really reasonable site. It's at www.yourorganzabags.com, then just click on ribbons and scroll down. It comes out to 4 cents per yard. Really reasonable has it for about 7 cents a yard. The shipping charge is about the same, so it's up to you. I just thought I'd let you know about my newest find!

i actually just got your post about monograms...I did find one I like from "wedding cuts."  I think it was around $35 for a solid metal one.  I found cheaper ones from websites that I wasn't too impressed with.  Mom said the price was fine as long as I liked it so it worked out for us but I'm sure there's probably something cheaper out there (I can only search online for so long until it feels like my eyes are about to pop out of my head so I settled on one as fast as I could!).  And as far as the vows...we're Catholic so the vows will be taken care of which is a big relief to matt who is as illiterate as I am math challenged.  I'm a writer so I've decided to add a poem I wrote to our programs which makes everyone happy in the end.  maybe you two could come up with some sort of compromise...maybe write vows you share with each other and not at the ceremony?

I doubt we will end up writing our own vows.  We may just personalize the traditional ones a little.  Or we may write vows together, but i'm pretty sure there will be no surprise vows at the altar.  But I'll let you all know when I know!