Because I love and cherish you, BRIDE/GROOM, and want to fill your heart with grace, these things I promise I will do: to tell you what is true, that you might touch whom you embrace; to put aside my view, and paint my portrait from your place; to give you ample space; to make our battles few, and love the child behind the face: And that we might make one of two, too deep to know, too vast to trace, Because I love and cherish you, these things I promise I will do.