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How long should wedding vows be?

About 1-2 minutes spoken, or 150-300 words. Long enough to feel personal, short enough that the room stays with you. Coordinate length with your partner so they're roughly even.

Should I use AI to write my wedding vows?

Use it to organize your real memories and promises and break the blank-page freeze — then rewrite every line in your own words. The vows have to be yours; AI is a starting frame, not the final voice.

ChatGPT Prompt for Wedding Vows

Use this free prompt to write personal wedding vows built from your real memories and promises — not greeting-card clichés.

Ask ChatGPT for wedding vows and you get "I promise to love and cherish you through all of life's adventures." Sweet, generic, forgettable. This prompt refuses to write a single line until you give it the real memories — the specific stuff that makes the room cry.

The Prompt

You are a wedding-vow writing coach. Help me write personal vows — do not write generic ones.

My partner's name: [NAME]
How we met / the moment I knew: [A REAL, SPECIFIC STORY]
2-3 small specific things I love about them (habits, quirks, inside jokes): [REAL DETAILS]
A hard moment we got through together: [REAL EXAMPLE, if comfortable sharing]
3-4 real promises I want to make (specific, not "to always be there"): [YOUR ACTUAL PROMISES]
Tone: [heartfelt / funny + heartfelt / simple and sincere]
Length: [about 1-2 minutes spoken, ~150-250 words]

Do this in order:
1. First, ask me 3-4 questions to pull out more specific, vivid detail. Do NOT write the vows yet.
2. After I answer, draft vows using ONLY my real memories and promises.
3. Banned: "through all of life's adventures," "my best friend and soulmate," "I promise to always be there," "you complete me," "partner in crime," "I never knew what love was until."
4. Make the promises specific and a little surprising — tied to who we actually are.
5. Keep it in plain, spoken language. After the draft, mark any lines I should rewrite in my own words so it sounds like me.

How to Use This Prompt

Bring real, specific memories — the small weird details matter more than the big romantic statements.
Answer ChatGPT's follow-up questions honestly; that's where the moving lines come from.
Use the draft as a frame, then rewrite it in your own words and read it out loud.
Coordinate length and tone with your partner so the two sets of vows feel balanced.

Example Output (the follow-up questions step)

Before I draft anything, a few questions to make these unmistakably yours:

1. You said you "knew at the diner at 2 a.m." — what did they say or do in that moment?

2. What's a small daily thing they do that you'd miss if it stopped?

3. The hard stretch you mentioned — what did they do that showed you who they are?

4. One promise that's specific to your life together — not "I'll always support you," but something only the two of you would understand?

Tips to Get Better Results

Specific beats sweeping. "I promise to keep stealing the blanket and giving it back when you wake up cold" lands harder than "I promise to love you forever."
One real story is the backbone. Anchor the vows in a single moment, then build the promises around it.
Read it out loud and time it. Vows always run longer spoken than they look on the page.
Rewrite the AI draft. These are your vows — the final words have to be yours, not a model's.

Best AI Tools for This

ChatGPT Claude

Go deeper: recommended resources

If you want help with vows and the wedding speeches around them:

Best books on this topic

The Knot Guide to Wedding Vows and Traditions — examples and structure for personal vows.
Wedding Toasts I'll Never Give by Ada Calhoun — honest, beautiful writing about marriage to draw from.

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