{"id":6813,"date":"2008-05-13T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-13T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2008\/05\/13\/the-seven-vows-of-the-hindu-wedding\/"},"modified":"2008-05-13T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-13T12:00:00","slug":"the-seven-vows-of-the-hindu-wedding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2008\/05\/13\/the-seven-vows-of-the-hindu-wedding\/","title":{"rendered":"The Seven Vows of the Hindu Wedding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"source\"><a HREF=\"http:\/\/weddings.iloveindia.com\/indian-weddings\/seven-vows.html\">weddings.iloveindia.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">INDIA, May 6, 2008: A Hindu wedding is all about rituals and customs, which teach us the actual essence of a married life. It tells us the values which should be followed after marriage to lead a happy married life. On the final day, the wedding vows are taken by the bride and the groom before the sacred fire and a witness to their marriage. According to Hindu belief if two people walk seven steps together then they will remain together for life. The seven promises or vows are:<\/p>\n<p>* The first step is taken to earn and provide a living for their household or family<br \/>* The second step is taken to build  physical, mental and spiritual powers and to lead a healthy lifestyle.<br \/>* The third step is taken to earn and increase their wealth by righteous and proper means.<br \/>* The fourth step is taken to acquire knowledge, happiness and harmony by mutual love, respect, understanding and faith.<br \/>* The fifth step is taken to have children for whom they will be responsible and blessed with healthy, righteous and brave children.<br \/>* The sixth step is taken for self-control and longevity.<br \/>* The seventh step is taken to be true to each other, loyal and remain life-long companions by this wedlock.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>weddings.iloveindia.com INDIA, May 6, 2008: A Hindu wedding is all about rituals and customs, which teach us the actual essence,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6813\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}