Suggestions please?

FallenKnight'sWife · Newbie Joined: 23 May 2005 Posts: 10

Hubby and I are renewing our vows in three weeks. Since the affair and our (yes, *OUR*) decision to straighten things out between us and rebuild our marriage, we've both felt it was really a necessary step in our recovery. He's already recommitted his vows to me privately but considering the affair was suspected widely throughout our church and there were several families who have helped us through the worst of this, we wanted to have a public "ceremony" that included all of those who have been so supportive to our healing. We even have our closest and dearest friends on earth driving five hours to be here for it! Very Happy

Ok, enough background. Does anyone have any suggestions to make this renewal especially meaningful not only to us but to the people we've invited? We're short on funds, so we're sort of doing this very frugally. We'd planned on a renewal for our 20th anniversary (in five years), and we'd kind of had it in our minds that we'd go all out and have the wedding we never had in the first place.....long story but it was a 'shotgun' wedding, my mother basically RAN our wedding, I had no decisions at all. Anyway, what would you do? Any ideas? Suggestions????? HELP! I am not a girly, froo-froo type so this does NOT come naturally to me! LOL

SAM · Veteran Joined: 03 Mar 2001 Posts: 2053 Location: Chicago

Writing your own vows to each other would be a wonderful thing to do.
We did this at our 25th wedding anniversary. There is a wonderful book called - The Complete Book of Christian Wedding Vows: The Importance of How You Say "I Do" by H. Norman Wright

You can find this in the GT bookstore or anywhere. It will give you some great examples, as well as great scripture.

We also wrote vows to our two daughters. They were not married at the time, but we still wanted to make a commitment to them and to their families they would have some day.

For the unity candle, have a candle for each family member. All of you come up together and light the candle as "one". There will not be a dry eye in the place.

Choose some music - Christian that has become very special to you and play it on CD at your ceremony. Another great way to celebrate is to pick two songs, have them typed out with the lyrics and do a praise/worship time at your ceremony with everyone there.

Hope that gives you some ideas for the celebration of the renewal of your vows.

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