Marriage Vows

Do you remember your marriage vows? They went something like this:

I, ____, take you, ____, for my lawful husband, to have and to hold, from this day forward, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, until death do us part. 

"Until death do us part." Do you remember that line? Statistics say that in America, over 50% of marriages do not make it "Until death do us part."  (and it's even higher for couples who married young like we did)

Do you take your vows seriously? God does.

1. Matthew 19:6 says "what God has joined together, let man not separate." (exception: look at Matthew 19:9)
2. Malachi 2:14 says God is a witness to our marriage covenant.
3. Ephesians 5:22-33 says marriage is a picture of Christ and the church.

This weeks challenge is simply to Remember. Remember the day you entered your sacred vows. If you are a blogger, please post pictures from that day and share your story. Then link up below and link your post to this post.


The above text (in brown) is from Women Living Well and the Completing Him Challenge.


I think you should read my post about my husband first ... this post will probably make more sense.


Andrew and I got married on July 7, 2007.  The date happened on accident.  We didn't really plan our wedding.  


See ... we kinda put the carriage before the horse ... or the pregnancy before the marriage.  It was really important to us to be married before Leah was born, but we didn't want to have a shot gun wedding.  We took our time, looked at all of the options, and chose to start a family.


...i bet the divorce rate is even higher for that...

Our wedding was very small.  We are planning on having a vow renewal in 2012 ... with a large party and all that fun stuff!

We didn't have a honeymoon budget ... and well ... I was 8 months pregnant, so my dad got us a room at the Embassy in downtown Birmingham.  We went out for dinner and went to a movie.  It was fun :-)