Wedding Vow Renewal

Hi there, my husband and I are coming up to our 10th wedding anniversary and have been wondering about renewing our vows. is it only really done in america? does anyone have any ideas or advice? thanks

yeah i want to take the time to recommit to each other, to reaffirm our love for each other and also for it to be in recognition for what we have been through and overcome. i am thinking of a small and intimate occasion with our 3 kids, family and possibly close friends. i am alos thinking about asking someone to do a small 1 tier cake for us as well as someone from church to take some photos. i think my mum thinks its a bit 'american' and may be going over the top. not sure

thanks, just had a chat to hubby, he wondered about having a celebration where we invite quite a few people and ask them to bring a plate of food, we provide drinks perhaps, and then as part of the celebration we make a toast kinda thing and thank people for coming and then just say nice things to each other in a vow renewal way. ohh so confused now!

what a great idea!

i will let you know what we end up doing. not sure how 'on board' my mum is about it all. it will be the end of January so have some time up our sleeves. i just want to get stuck in and started on organizing it

that sounds nice, we lived in christchurch at the time we got married and 'honeymooned' in the bay of islands but we did too much tourist stuff and the pill i was on made me feel ill, so wasn't the best time.

My latest train of thought with this whole idea is to now maybe just go away for a few nights (which we are wanting to do anyway) and then renew our vows just to each other in front of each other on the actual day.

I suppose there are unlimited options.

We have had hard times and I want to celebrate the fact that we are still in love and still committed to each other.

congratulations in 10 years!

wow that is special about your parents.

im hoping to get a ring too

I agree about celebrating it as a family as we also want our 3 kids to know and understand what it means to be married and committed to each other.

so many options, just want to make the right choice.

Yep we're so going to do this, I'm really looking forward to it!

We've had a lot of downs in the last 8 years plus the ups but we want to celebrate what we've been through & what's to come.

I really want to go to a pacific island & get it done on a beach. Will be good timing too as one of the kids will be cheap cause of being under 2 lol

We'll let everyone know well in advance what we are going to do so they can come. So hopefully they will

We are planning on renewing our Wedding Vows..or getting married again. We were looking at doing it at our 10th but now are looking at doing it at 12.5 yrs. The Dutch celebrate 12.5 yrs of marriage & since DH is Dutch we will probably do this also. Not planning on having a big party, more just family & not sure if we will do it at the same church or in gardens... But will have fun planning it.

Our 11th is in 2 weeks so we are looking at May 2013.

I say go for & its not just an American thing as it is done all around the world for yrs

I say go for it! I dont think its american I think it is a personal choice.

we are planning to renew ours for our 10yr annv, for our actualy wedding we had cheap make do rings which 2yrs later are both unlost and undamaged but we would like to get something abit nicer one day but i see no value in new rings with out the vows etc. Im the type that only wears jewlery if it has a special meaning. our current rings are both engraved and we will get the same engravement on our new rings. but that is 8yrs away lol.