Renewing vows

[Mark UK 3]

DA,

It's been quite a while since I went back to the UK since I emigrated to the US of A but I hope to visit my family sometime next year. (Isn't it scary how expensive it seems when you've lived in the US for a while?!)

Anyhow, one of the things we'd like to do is to renew our vows in front of my family and friends. They weren't able to afford to make it over for our wedding itself in the US and some of my family are suffering from health issues, so I'd like to do that when we do visit.

Has anyone done this? We are both Christians (Protestants) and we would like for it to be in a church, especially the church in the village where my Dad's family comes from.

What sort of things did you do? Did you exchange a new ring to 'match' your existing rings? Did you take off your original rings and put them back on during the ceremony (not sure I like the sound of that)? Did you wear a full-blown wedding ensemble? What did you say in your vows? We'd really like to do this in a church, though I'm not sure there is a process for this sort of thing in the vicar's repertoire

Mark

[morretti 0]

We did. We got married in the US, was kind of planned/unplanned, we knew we would eventually get married but I was only on holiday that time and we had no plans. I'm not really sure how it happened, we were talking about it one day and a week later we were married in a civil ceremony. It never crossed our minds for me to stay in the US and adjust status so I came back here and we applied for a visa. When we had enough of waiting he moved here instead and on our 1st wedding anniversary we renewed our vows in the local church. The vicar was absolutely wonderful, we had readings, hymns and a service. Was a wonderful day with family and friends there.

We did have wedding outfits, white dress and suit. We never took our rings off we didn't like the idea of that either, we just held our ring hands together and the vicar blessed them.

Edited August 6, 2009 by morretti

[Mark UK 3]

We did. We got married in the US, was kind of planned/unplanned, we knew we would eventually get married but I was only on holiday that time and we had no plans. I'm not really sure how it happened, we were talking about it one day and a week later we were married in a civil ceremony. It never crossed our minds for me to stay in the US and adjust status so I came back here and we applied for a visa. When we had enough of waiting he moved here instead and on our 1st wedding anniversary we renewed our vows in the local church. The vicar was absolutely wonderful, we had readings, hymns and a service. Was a wonderful day with family and friends there.

We did have wedding outfits, white dress and suit. We never took our rings off we didn't like the idea of that either, we just held our ring hands together and the vicar blessed them.

I really like the idea of holding ring hands together, that's a nice one. How did the vicar bless them, if you don't mind me asking?

I'd like to have the renewal on the date of the anniversary, but as we got married in November, I'm not so sure that's a good idea