To not like it when people recite their own wedding vows

[StandingLampTassles]

Makes my toes curl (with a few exceptions)

Especially ones with the couple's in jokes ("I promise to always say miaow when I see a black cab and keep your blue duck clean"). Or emotional diarrhoea. Or brides that come over all downtown abbey "forsooth I give thee my solemn promise". Or grooms that play up to male stereotypes "I promise to not walk my footie boots all over the cream carpets or cradle my scrotum in front of your mum

Yes I'm grumpy but I've been to eight weddings since
June!!

Eight since June would have anyone on the verge of a breakdown, you poor thing.

YANBU.

Thankfully I've never been to one where they wrote their own vows but it sounds hideously embarrassing. I think I only know people who like an easy life and would rather just say the standard version.

never been to one that did. all mine have been traditional vows.

I blame crap films for what must be toe curlingly sick making.

Yanbu. Makes me cringe

Yuk. Never been to a wedding with home made vows, though I did foolishly agree to give a reading which turned out to be a rhyming poem written by the groom. It was AWFUL.

x post picnic.😄

We did our own vows. But we only had 3 guests including DS so we weren't subjecting the masses to our thoughts. I didn't even consider what the guests would think of them actually! They were just for our benefit :)

Oh heck we will be writing our own vows, had no idea I should be mentioning the blue duck and doing it all in rhyming slang. Back to the drawing board methinks fosooth.

I've just read back over ours and I don't think they'd make anyone cringe.

Oh the idea of it makes me shudder. If people want to say that stuff to reach other great, but I don't particularly want to hear it. We are having the normal I do type vows, and if I want to promise to keep his blue duck clean them I will tell him so when we haven't got 150 bored, confused and rather hungry people sitting staring at us like this .

On a more important note, what the heck is that blue grinning alien thing you have thebody and how can I get me one?

I thought that only happened in films! Do people really make up their own vows?? Always makes me think of Peter & Dawn in Gavin and Stacey...naff, naff, naff...

Yes it is a bit embarrassing isn't it. I always wait for the inevitable: 'You are my best friend'.

Also, I have long doubted the authenticity of the 'Apache Wedding Blessing', which I have heard at several weddings, so just looked up on Wiki (which I KNOW is not necessarily an authoritative source) and was amused to read: 'It has no known connection to the traditions of the Apache or any other Native American group.
It was written for the 1947 Western novel Blood Brother by Elliott Arnold.. The blessing entered popular consciousness when it made its way into the film adaptation of the novel Broken Arrow, scripted by Albert Maltz. The Economist, citing Rebecca Mead's book on American weddings, characterized it as "'traditionalesque', commerce disguised as tradition".