Renewing Wedding Vows

Renewing wedding vows is special ceremony in which husband and wife renew their wedding vows. It is special ceremony and not a second wedding ceremony or wedding anniversary. It is really exciting to reaffirm your commitment to each other in front of your friend, family and children. Renewing wedding vows ceremony is also useful to strengthen your relationship.

There can be many resons why husband and wife wants to renew the wedding vows like may be some couple eloped or had a destination wedding and they renew their wedding vows immediately after their wedding or may be they renew their wedding vows to celebrate your 5th, 10th, 25th wedding anniversary. There are some couple doesn't have much money at time of wedding or had some disaster or some hard time at their wedding. Such couples also want to renew their wedding vows in front of their friends and relatives.

Here bride and groom can have ideas about the renewing wedding vows:

  • As renewing wedding vows is celebration ceremony and not legal wedding, priest or wedding officiant is not needed to perform it. Someone from your family or your close friend can perform it.
  • Since couple is already married, father should not give her daughter in wedding.
  • Also there is no need of bridesmaids and groomsmen in renewal wedding vows ceremony.
  • Also rings are exchanged in wedding ceremony; it does not need to repeated in wedding vows renewal ceremony.
  • In renewing wedding vows ceremony, invite your family and friends.
  • It can be conducted in churches, chapels, temples or even at home.
  • In renewing wedding vows, couple should express their feelings about their partner and tell also how he or she made you better person.
  • Also pledge to him or her for the future in renewing wedding vows.
  • Wedding vows renewal ceremony is followed by a reception.
  • In reception, skip the traditional dance such as father daughter dance or groom mother dance. You can have husband and wife to dance first as it symbolizes first dance of the next phase of life. You can also invent your dances.