During the wedding rehearsal, the groom approached the
vicar with an unusual offer.
"Look, I’ll give
you £100 if you’ll change the wedding vows.
When you get to me and the part where I’m to promise
to ‘love, honor and obey’ and ‘forsaking
all others, be faithful to her forever,’ I’d
appreciate it if you’d just leave that part out." He
passed the clergyman the cash and walked away satisfied.
It is now the day of the wedding, and the bride and groom
have moved to that part of the ceremony where the vows
are exchanged. When it comes time for the groom’s
vows, the vicar looks the young man in the eye and says:
"Will you promise to prostrate yourself before her,
obey her every command and wish, serve her breakfast in
bed every morning of your life and swear eternally before
God and your lovely wife that you will not ever even look
at another woman, as long as you both shall live?"
The groom gulped and looked around, and said in a tiny
voice, "Yes." The groom leaned toward the vicar
and hissed, "I thought we had a deal."
The vicar put the £100 into his hand and whispered
back, "She made me a much better offer."
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