In the traditional Christian wedding vow, each takes the other “to have and to hold from this day forward, for better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, till death us do part.” Churches word the promise in different ways, and an Orthodox wedding has no spoken vows at all. The words are old, and most of them were already spoken in English in the Middle Ages. At their heart is…

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