Can we change our wedding vows to include the afterlife?

You can say whatever you want.

@canidmajor D’oh. Would a catholic priest willingly allow that?

You’d have to ask him. I have Catholic friends who wrote their own vows, I don’t remember if they included an eternity clause.
But really, kind of selfish, don’t you think? What if one of you dies waaaaay before the other? Wouldn’t you want them to be happy again?

@canidmajor Never thought of it like that. Thanks for the insight.

You could, but why would you want to?

I didn’t realize you were engaged. Or is this a “what if” question?

When my brother married his second wife she refused to promise to obey & he didn’t want the til death do us part because he had already promised that one & the bish didn’t die. So, the vow with his 2nd wife was ”to love, honor, & be best friends for life”. Don’t know IF it just took the pressure off or what but they’ve been married for 25 years. It will depend on the minister as to changing the vows; but, writing your own vows has become commonplace..Shouldn’t be a problem.

Living together is basically the same as a trial marriage.

@elbanditoroso It is a what if question.

Why not?

The Mormons do it. Knock yourself out. Write your own vows, whatever…
If you want to get married for all time you could just wait until you both get there. Then, if one of you doesn’t make it, you wouldn’t be married to THAT ball and loooooong chain…

@kritiper GA. Never thought of getting married in the afterlife.

Yes, you can saw anything you want in your vows. Its a free country.

Some Christian ministers won’t do the ceremony and most churches would have policies against it on theological grounds because Christians teach / believe something different about marriage and the afterlife, but probably not many people do church weddings now anyway. Its more a civil ceremony and covenant.