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Your story.
Your promises.
Your voice.

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Three real structures

Compare genuinely different directions before you choose the shape that sounds right.

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Set your pace, mark difficult lines, rehearse with a local timer, then print clean pages.

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109 complete wedding vows in 12 styles, each with its speaking time, a copy button and a one-click path into the writer.

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Speeches, same engine

The toast gets the same treatment as the vows

Maid of honor, best man, or father of the bride: bring one true story, compare three speaking structures, then rehearse in teleprompter mode and print cue cards.

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Maid of honor

Bring one true story about the bride. Compare three speaking structures, edit every word, rehearse with a local teleprompter, and print cue cards.

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Best man

Funny, then generous. Bring one safe story, compare three structures, edit freely, then rehearse in teleprompter mode before the big night.

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Father of the bride

Welcome the room, tell one story that shows who she is, welcome her partner, and close with a toast. Draft it here, rehearse it privately, print it cleanly.

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Choose the shape before polishing the sentence

Each generation produces three explained directions—not cosmetic rewrites. The editor recomputes timing as you change the words, and every explicit save creates a timestamped local version.

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Story-led

A supplied moment opens the door, then meaning and promises carry the draft forward.

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Promise-led

Concrete commitments lead, supported by only the context you chose to provide.

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Concise & direct

A clean declaration, selected promises, and a future-facing close built to say slowly.

Synthetic starting points

Learn from the structure, not a stranger’s story

Provenance: these are synthetic teaching examples written for illustration, not customer submissions or a real couple’s transcript. Replace generic lines with facts you can confirm.

6 examples

The porch light

When I was younger I thought love would feel like fireworks. It turns out it feels like a porch light left on. It is you texting to ask if I got home safe. It is the second mug already on the counter. It is knowing, on the worst day of the year, exactly whose voice I want to hear. So today I promise to be your porch light. I promise to leave the door open, to listen to the whole story and not just the headline, and to make our home a place you are glad to come back to. I promise to keep choosing you on the dull Tuesdays as well as the big days. Wherever you go, I will be the light that is on.

Structure: opening idea → personal detail → close · about 59 seconds at 130 wpm

RomanticAny Partner

The man who fixes things

You are the man who fixes things. The wobbly table, the dripping tap, the bike chain, my mood on a bad Monday. You never make a fuss about it; you just quietly make things better. Today I want to promise you something in return. I promise to look after you, too. I promise to notice when you are the one who needs fixing, even when you say you are fine. I promise to hand you the right screwdriver, mostly, and to keep you company in the garage. And I promise that whatever breaks in the years ahead, you will never have to mend it alone. You make everything better, especially me.

Structure: opening idea → personal detail → close · about 52 seconds at 130 wpm

RomanticFor Him

The woman who remembers

You remember everything. The name of the waiter on our first date. The song that was playing when I told you I loved you. The way I like my eggs, which I did not even know myself. You pay attention to people in a way that makes them feel like they matter, and you have made me feel that way every day since we met. Today I promise to pay attention to you. I promise to remember the small things and the big ones. I promise to notice when you are tired, when you are proud and when you need me. I want to spend my life learning everything about you.

Structure: opening idea → personal detail → close · about 52 seconds at 130 wpm

RomanticFor Her

The thermostat treaty

I have prepared these vows the way you prepare for a road trip, which is to say with three backup snacks and a printed map. First, I promise to stop touching the thermostat. I will not keep that promise, but I want it on the record that I tried. I promise to pretend I do not notice when you rewatch the same comfort show for the fourth time, and to sit with you anyway. I promise to share my fries, though not happily. But here is the part I mean with my whole heart: I promise to be on your team for every single day of the rest of our lives. You make every room warmer, whatever the thermostat says.

Structure: opening idea → personal detail → close · about 56 seconds at 130 wpm

FunnyAny Partner

Plainly, and for good

I am not good with speeches, so I will say this plainly. I love you. I loved you before I could say it, and I will love you long after I have run out of new ways to say it. I promise to be honest with you, even when it is hard. I promise to be gentle with you, even when I am tired. And I promise to stay, on the bright days and the gray ones, for as long as we both shall live. That is everything I have, and all of it is yours.

Structure: opening idea → personal detail → close · about 45 seconds at 130 wpm

ShortAny Partner

The year everything broke

Most of the people here know about the year everything broke. I lost my job, then my dad got sick, and for a long time I was not much fun to be around. You did not try to fix it. You just stayed. You sat in hospital parking lots with me. You made dinners I did not eat. You let me be sad without making me feel like a burden. I learned more about love that year than in all the years before it. So I make these promises knowing exactly what they cost. I promise to stay when it is hard. I promise to sit in the parking lot with you. And I promise that whatever breaks, we will mend it side by side.

Structure: opening idea → personal detail → close · about 58 seconds at 130 wpm

HeartfeltAny Partner

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