The month of February is the month of love, gifts, and Romance. We all are excited for Valentine's Day, which is celebrated by lovers everywhere. Every year, Valentine's Week comes before Valentine's Day, which is on February 14. The week of love begins with Rose Day followed by Propose Day, Chocolate Day, Teddy Day, Promise Day, Hug Day, Kiss Day, and ending with Valentine's day.
Promise Day is celebrated on the fifth day of Valentine's week. It is clear from the name itself that it is the day of promises. In love, couples take vows of love. These vows help in maintaining trust and hope in their relationship. When you are in love, you take care of your partner's happiness. In Hinduism also vows play a very significant role. When a Hindu couple ties the knot they take seven vows to keep their partner happy.
During their wedding ceremony with the Saat Phere(Seven rounds) the couple takes seven vows around Agni Dev by taking him as a witness to their marriage. This is called AgniSakhi. The groom leads his bride while doing the first four parikramas while the latter leads her man during the remaining three pheres. With each phera they take one Vachan to live their life happily. On Promise day let us have a look on 7 vows of Hindu Weddings.
First Vow; The man promises to take care of his bride, their children, and the family and the woman vows to undertake the responsibility of looking after the groom’s home.
Second Vow: The man promises to protect his woman under all circumstances and the lady promises to stand by her husband through different circumstances.
Third Vow: The man promises to work hard to earn enough wealth for the family and the lady to effectively take care of the income and expenses.
Fourth Vow: Man promises to entrust the responsibility of his household to his lady love and respect her wise decisions regarding the same. While the woman to fulfil her duties to the best of her abilities for a respectful living.
Fifth Vow: Man promises to consult his wife in all important matters and take his opinion on important issues and woman to support the man in all his endeavors.
Sixth Vow: The vow of commitment where a man promises to remain committed and loyal to his bride and the woman to remain faithful to her husband.
Seventh Vow: They promise to lead their whole life with each other. Man accepts not only the woman as a wife but as his friend forever.
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