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Marriage vows, the Glossary

Index Marriage vows

Marriage vows are promises each partner in a couple makes to the other during a wedding ceremony based upon Western Christian norms.[1]

Table of Contents

  1. 29 relations: Alternative Service Book, Anglicanism, Book of Common Prayer, Book of Common Prayer (1549), Bride price, Britain Yearly Meeting, Catholic Church, Church of England, Civil marriage, Clandestine Marriages Act 1753, Dowry, Eastern Christianity, England and Wales, Jews, Latin Church, Love, Lutheranism, Marriage Act 1949, Mystery of Crowning, Obedience (human behavior), Promise, Quakers, United Kingdom, Use of Sarum, Use of York, Vow, Wedding, Wells Gardner, Darton and Company, Western Christianity.

  2. Anglican liturgy
  3. Wedding

Alternative Service Book

The Alternative Service Book 1980 (ASB) was the first complete prayer book produced by the Church of England since 1662.

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Anglicanism

Anglicanism is a Western Christian tradition which developed from the practices, liturgy, and identity of the Church of England following the English Reformation, in the context of the Protestant Reformation in Europe.

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Book of Common Prayer

The Book of Common Prayer (BCP) is the name given to a number of related prayer books used in the Anglican Communion and by other Christian churches historically related to Anglicanism. Marriage vows and book of Common Prayer are Anglican liturgy.

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Book of Common Prayer (1549)

The 1549 Book of Common Prayer (BCP) is the original version of the Book of Common Prayer, variations of which are still in use as the official liturgical book of the Church of England and other Anglican churches.

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Bride price

Bride price, bride-dowry, bride-wealth, bride service or bride token, is money, property, or other form of wealth paid by a groom or his family to the woman or the family of the woman he will be married to or is just about to marry. Marriage vows and bride price are marriage.

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Britain Yearly Meeting

The Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in Britain, also known as Britain Yearly Meeting (and, until 1995, London Yearly Meeting), is a Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in England, Scotland, Wales, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man.

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Catholic Church

The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.28 to 1.39 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2024.

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Church of England

The Church of England (C of E) is the established Christian church in England and the Crown Dependencies.

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Civil marriage

A civil marriage is a marriage performed, recorded, and recognized by a government official.

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Clandestine Marriages Act 1753

The Clandestine Marriages Act 1753, also called the Marriage Act 1753, long title "An Act for the Better Preventing of Clandestine Marriage", popularly known as Lord Hardwicke's Marriage Act (26 Geo. 2. c. 33), was the first statutory legislation in England and Wales to require a formal ceremony of marriage.

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Dowry

A dowry is a payment, such as property or money, paid by the bride’s family to the groom or his family at the time of marriage. Marriage vows and dowry are marriage.

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Eastern Christianity

Eastern Christianity comprises Christian traditions and church families that originally developed during classical and late antiquity in the Eastern Mediterranean region or locations further east, south or north.

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England and Wales

England and Wales is one of the three legal jurisdictions of the United Kingdom.

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Jews

The Jews (יְהוּדִים) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites of the ancient Near East, and whose traditional religion is Judaism.

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Latin Church

The Latin Church (Ecclesia Latina) is the largest autonomous (sui iuris) particular church within the Catholic Church, whose members constitute the vast majority of the 1.3 billion Catholics.

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Love

Love encompasses a range of strong and positive emotional and mental states, from the most sublime virtue or good habit, the deepest interpersonal affection, to the simplest pleasure.

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Lutheranism

Lutheranism is a major branch of Protestantism that identifies primarily with the theology of Martin Luther, the 16th-century German monk and reformer whose efforts to reform the theology and practices of the Catholic Church ended the Middle Ages and, in 1517, launched the Reformation.

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Marriage Act 1949

The Marriage Act 1949 (12, 13 & 14 Geo. 6. c. 76) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom regulating marriages in England and Wales.

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Mystery of Crowning

The Mystery of Crowning is a ritual component of the sacrament of marriage in Eastern Christianity.

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Obedience (human behavior)

Obedience, in human behavior, is a form of "social influence in which a person yields to explicit instructions or orders from an authority figure".

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Promise

A promise is a commitment by someone to do or not do something.

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Quakers

Quakers are people who belong to the Religious Society of Friends, a historically Protestant Christian set of denominations.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of the continental mainland.

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Use of Sarum

The Use of Sarum (or Use of Salisbury, also known as the Sarum Rite) is the liturgical use of the Latin rites developed at Salisbury Cathedral and used from the late eleventh century until the English Reformation.

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Use of York

The Use of York or York Rite was a liturgical use of the Roman Rite – itself a Latin liturgical rite – practised in part of northern England, prior to the reign of Henry VIII.

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Vow

A vow (Lat. votum, vow, promise; see vote) is a promise or oath. Marriage vows and vow are oaths.

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Wedding

A wedding is a ceremony where two people are united in marriage. Marriage vows and wedding are marriage.

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Wells Gardner, Darton and Company

Wells Gardner, Darton and Company was a British publishing company based in London.

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Western Christianity

Western Christianity is one of two subdivisions of Christianity (Eastern Christianity being the other).

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See also

Anglican liturgy

Wedding

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marriage_vows

Also known as In sickness and in health, Marriage vow, Wedding vow, Wedding vows.