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Tips for not sobbing through your wedding vows

Tearing up while writing and practicing vows makes it difficult to keep a cool head during the ceremony. This prevents people from getting through their recitation without breaking down.

What people tried

Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.

  1. 1
    Reading vows to each other in private the morning of the wedding to get the tears out early
  2. 2
    Practicing vows while staring at a wall
  3. 3
    Reading vows to a friend first

In their words

Unedited, most upvoted first, each linked to the thread it came from.

“Does anyone have tips for not sobbing through the vows?”source ↗

“I am writing them and keep tearing up and I know that on the day of, in the middle of all the magic I will most likely cry multiple times during the day one of which being my vows lol any tips and tricks to keep a cool head while reciting them?”source ↗

Low_Presentation-_- · r/weddingplanning · 1 upvotes

“i practiced mine while staring at a wall and it helped but still cried a little on the day.”source ↗

Fair-Actuary-8723 · r/weddingplanning · 1 upvotes

Where this came up

r/weddingplanningemotionspublic speakingweddings

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