how to memorise your vows

taken from www.wedbykez.com (I rate this as a funny blog - hope you do too!)

As if writing your own vows wasn’t scary enough you’ve decided to be brave and memorise them as well. While I applaud your courage we also thought some memory tips might be handy so you don’t forget the words you’ve spent hours agonising over.

CHUNKS
Just as good as the chocolate kind. This method of memorising has proven very popular and successful.

Basically, you break down the whole piece into smaller and easily memorisable “chunks” or groups. This works well if the order of how you say your vows is not important as you can go back to a “chuck” later if you skipped it.

To help you retain the order, try to think about one connection each chunk has to the next.

RHYMING
I wouldn’t dare suggest you turn to poetry if you aren’t already penning sonnets and haikus but rhyming is super helpful when it comes to memory.

Thank god for Mrs Choules’ rhyming mathematics in year 4 otherwise I would never have been able to work out my credit card balance now!

Think about how many times in your life you resort to poems and rhyme to help you remember things.

30 days has September, April, June and November,
all the rest has 31
except for February…

and of course, as kids, we changed the original ending to “…except for February which is dumb..” so now I can never exactly remember how many days February has each year but only that February is a stupid month.



BY ROTE
Sometimes remembering things is like banging your head against a brick wall. Actually, I don’t recommend banging you head against anything to try and remember something. You’ll end up with a headache.

What I mean is, by slogging away and writing things down a million times of reciting them over and over it will eventually sink into your memory and stay there. Now you understand why lines are always given out at school as punishment. Enough lines and you will remember you “must not yell in the library” and you’ll probably have some kind of psychosomatic hand cramp as well.

DON'T PANIC
If you do end up with a few missed words or pauses in your vows.. comfort yourself with the knowledge that in 2000 when accepting her Oscar for Best Actress Swank forgot to thank her , then husband, Chad Lowe… OUCH!