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Groom: My beloved, our love has become firm by taking the first step together. I will love you and cherish you. I will provide for the welfare and happiness of you and our children. I ask that you promise to share the responsibilities of the home, food and finances. Bride: My lord, you were kind to give me the responsibility of the home, food and finances. I promise that I shall discharge all my responsibilities for the welfare of the household, family and the children. This is my commitment to you.

Groom: My beloved, by taking the second step, you have filled my heart with strength and courage. May God protect the household and our children. Bride: My lord, at all times, I shall continue to fill your heart with strength and courage. In your happiness I shall rejoice. I promise that I will always please you with sweet words and take care of the family and our children. In return you shall love me alone as your wife. May God bless you, the household and our children.

Groom: My beloved, by taking the third step together, we have invoked God's blessings in helping grow our wealth and prosperity. Together we will educate our children. I will love you and you alone as my wife. This is my commitment and my pledge to you. Bride: My lord, I will love you with single-minded devotion. I will treat all other men as my brothers. This is my commitment and pledge to you. You are my joy and my devotion to you is pure.

Groom: My beloved, it is a great blessing that you have walked four steps with me. You have brought auspiciousness and sacredness in my life. May God bless us with obedient and noble children. May they live long. Bride: My lord, in all acts of righteousness ("dharma"), in material prosperity ("artha"), in every form of enjoyment, and in divine acts such as fire sacrifice, worship and charity, I promise to participate and will always be with you. I will please you in every way I can.

Groom: My beloved, you have enriched my life by taking this fifth step with me. May god bless you. May our loved ones live long and share in our prosperity. Bride: My lord, this is my humble submission to you. I will share both in your joys and sorrows. Your love will make me very happy. I will always honor you.

Groom: My beloved, by walking six steps with me you have filled my heart with happiness. May I fill your heart with great joy and peace time and time again. Bride: My lord, may God bless you. May I fill your heart with great joy and peace time and time again. I promise that I will always be with you and will always support you.

Groom: My beloved, by walking this seventh step with me, our love and friendship have become inseparable and eternal. We have experienced spiritual union in God. Now you have become completely mine. I offer my total self to you. May our marriage last forever. Bride: My lord, I have become your spouse by the law of God, holy fire and the holy scriptures. The promises I have made have been spoken with pure heart and pure mind. All the angels are witnesses to this fact. I shall neither deceive you nor will I ever let you down. May our love for each other and this marriage last forever.