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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 hold The Marriage Vows

Wedding

Wedding Vows, Verses & Names

A Faux Calligraphy Practice Book

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

$10 one-off, US dollars

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  • US Letter PDF (8.5 × 11 in)
  • 46 pages
  • Instant download after checkout
  • 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. 01 The Vows
  2. 02 With This Ring
  3. 03 Ruth 1:16
  4. 04 Song of Solomon 6:3
  5. 05 Song of Solomon 8:7
  6. 06 Genesis 2:24
  7. 07 Ecclesiastes 4:12
  8. 08 1 Corinthians 13:13
  9. 09 1 John 4:19
  10. 10 Mark 10:9
  11. 11 Sonnet 116
  12. 12 Sonnet 18
  13. 13 Sonnet 43
  14. 14 A Red, Red Rose
  15. 15 To My Dear and Loving Husband

The book, page by page

46 pages in all, in this order.

  • Cover p. 1
  • How faux calligraphy works p. 2
  • Reading the guidelines p. 3
  • Warm-up drills p. 4
  • Lowercase a–z p. 5
  • Uppercase A–Z p. 6
  • Names p. 7
  • Numbers & dates p. 8
  • The passages, line by line pp. 9–39
  • Key words pp. 40–43
  • Free practice pages pp. 44–45
  • Where to go next p. 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.