How did you present your personal vows?

My fiance and I bought vow books to read our vows from! They'll look something similar to this, though with our names and wedding date (this is the stock photo from the seller).
You could do something similar, and be more intentional about looking up from the book to say the vows to your fiance?

Our photographer gifted us little vow books. We plan to read out of them and then keep them.

We had vow books, but each spent time reading over our vows in the weeks leading up to the wedding so we could each have them mostly memorized. The officiant held onto them until it was time to read them and then took them back once we were done.

I ordered us personalized vow books from Etsy to make them a little more dressed up, rather than have it written or printed out on a piece of folded paper. Our photographer used them in our details photos and they looked amazing!!

We read our vows out during our ceremony in place of traditional vows (traditional just wasn't my style). We just looked at one another every so often when reading them. I would say try and memorize them, but no amount of practicing would've prepared us for the emotions of that day, and I'm glad we had hard copies in front of us to help!

I'm with you OP, I don't want my FH reading his vows to me, staring at a paper and not me, nor do I expect him to memorize a speech, so we kind of agreed to just have "bullet points" of what we want to say, and then speak from the heart during the moment. However, our personal vows we are doing in private beforehand, and traditional vows during the ceremony so we won't have the jitters or anything to worry about!

Our JP read them for us. He gave us the option of reading them ourselves or he could have done it. We knew that we both would be nervous that day and no matter how much we rehersed, I'm sure we would stumble over the words. Also, we wanted to look each other in the eyes and not be looking down at a paper. We gave him our words about two weeks before the wedding so he could practice saying them. When he spoke our words to each other he started with: "Jonathan theses are Elizabeth's words to you about marrying you ". We couldn't be happier on how it turned out.