The Top 10 Reasons to Renew Your Wedding Vows - Wedding Article

More and more married couples are choosing to renew their wedding vows – either in small, intimate, family-only celebrations at home, or as bigger-than-the-original-wedding extravaganzas in a ballroom. Some couples renew their vows while on vacation with their families, exchanging loving words by a Hawaiian waterfall, and some head to the beach or the mountains to renew their vows in their favorite place. Regardless of the style and location of today’s celebrations, here are the top ten reasons to reaffirm your wedding vows:

1. You are celebrating a ‘big’ anniversary – the 10th, 20th, 25th, 50th. If you dated for 3 years prior to marrying and it’s technically your 10th year together, feel free to renew your vows on your “big” 7th!  It’s your day so plan it when it makes the most sense for you.

2. You didn’t get the wedding of your dreams the first time around. Maybe your parents were paying and wanted everything their way. Maybe your families didn’t have a lot of money back then. Maybe you chose a smaller wedding since that was your wish at the time. Maybe the wedding was so big and so overblown that you got lost in the circus atmosphere. Now, you get your own “do over.” You get to do it your way this time.
 
3. You have recently gone through a tough time, such as a separation or the illness of a partner or child. You have spent years healing your relationship, and now you want to refresh your wedding vows as a way to say thank you to one another and start anew.

4. You had your original wedding plans changed due to a military deployment or a family emergency. You had to cancel your big wedding plans to ‘rush’ your wedding day. Now, you get to do it right.

5. You wish to include your kids in the ceremony. It’s a high priority to have your kids present, and even to renew vows with your children as part of the ceremony.
 
6. You find it important to always show one another gratitude and love, so you have made it a regular event in your relationship to renew your vows on every anniversary, or every 5th anniversary.

7. You just went through the wedding planning process for one of your children (or several of your children), and you want the same kind of celebration for yourselves! Maybe the kids paid for and planned their own wedding, so you missed out on being involved. Or, you started to get too involved in the wedding plans, then stepped back before upsetting the overwhelmed bride and groom. It’s a big trend for a couples’ parents to renew their vows shortly after their child’s wedding.

8. Your religious beliefs have changed since your first wedding, and you wish to re-do your wedding ceremony and renew your vows with your newly embraced belief system and faith included.

9. You or your partner wish to surprise the other with a vow renewal celebration as an anniversary gift. It’s a surprise party/vow renewal that thrills the other partner. The kids may also wish to throw a planned or surprise wedding vow renewal celebration for their parents.

10. You wish to use your wedding vow renewal celebration to show the younger generations what a successful marriage looks like: the dedication, the affection, overcoming challenges, showing appreciation. In our world of quickie celebrity marriages and divorces, a long-lasting union is a great lesson for your kids and grandkids. Plus, it’s a happy occasion for an extended family gathering.
 

 

Submited by: Sharon Naylor