Marriage is one of the world's oldest rituals and the wedding vows which are commonplace today have hardly changed for centuries.
Wikipedia says: The traditional vows, taken from the Book of Common Prayer are, "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."
They were first published in English in the prayer book of 1549, based on earlier Latin texts (the Sarum and York Rituals of the medieval period). An older version of the ...