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Cover of Wedding Vows, Verses & Names: the title in navy over the phrase “to have and to hold” in gold script, inside a thin gold border.
to have and to holdThe Marriage Vows

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Wedding Vows, Verses & Names

A Faux Calligraphy Practice Book

Practice your names, your date and your vows before you letter the real thing.

$10one-off, US dollars

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  • US Letter PDF (8.5 × 11 in)
  • 46 pages
  • Print at home, as many times as you like
  • KJV text (public domain)
  • Personal-use licence

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About this book

For anyone lettering their own place cards, signs and envelopes. It starts with your names and an ampersand, then numerals and dates for save-the-dates and table numbers, then fifteen passages: the vows and the ring from the 1662 Book of Common Prayer, Ruth and Song of Solomon and 1 Corinthians in the King James Version, and Shakespeare, Burns, Bradstreet and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. A page of wedding words closes it out, from forever to happily ever after. Dusty rose and plum ink. US Letter, print a fresh copy whenever you need one.

What you will write

15 passages, KJV and public domain. Each one gets key words, a phrase, and then the whole passage line by line.

  1. 01The Vows
  2. 02With This Ring
  3. 03Ruth 1:16
  4. 04Song of Solomon 6:3
  5. 05Song of Solomon 8:7
  6. 06Genesis 2:24
  7. 07Ecclesiastes 4:12
  8. 081 Corinthians 13:13
  9. 091 John 4:19
  10. 10Mark 10:9
  11. 11Sonnet 116
  12. 12Sonnet 18
  13. 13Sonnet 43
  14. 14A Red, Red Rose
  15. 15To My Dear and Loving Husband

The book, page by page

46 pages in all, in this order.

  • Coverp. 1
  • How faux calligraphy worksp. 2
  • Reading the guidelinesp. 3
  • Warm-up drillsp. 4
  • Lowercase a–zp. 5
  • Uppercase A–Zp. 6
  • Namesp. 7
  • Numbers & datesp. 8
  • The passages, line by linepp. 9–39
  • Key wordspp. 40–43
  • Free practice pagespp. 44–45
  • Where to go nextp. 46

Look inside

Actual pages from the PDF, at print size. The light script is the exemplar you trace; the empty rows underneath are yours.

Who it is for

For couples doing their own stationery, and for the friend who got volunteered to letter ninety place cards.

Licence

Personal use, no copy limit. Print it for yourself and your household as often as you like. Reselling the file, sharing it publicly or handing it out as class material is not covered — for a church group, Bible study or classroom set, email us and we will sort out a group licence.

Scripture is the King James Version. Non-scripture text is public domain.