Welcome:

___________and __________Many people believe that entering marriage is the last step in a romantic relationship. A couple meets, gets to know one another, fall in love, and decides to spend their lives together.However, marriage is not the final step in a couple’s relationship, it is the beginning of a grand adventure.

You have shared the joys, blessings, and challenges of married life for _______ years. Today, you wish to reconfirm your commitment to working together and ensure your marriage blossoms for years to come. May this renewing of the vows you took to become husband and wife remind you that despite the stresses inevitable in every life, your love, respect, trust and understanding of each other will continue to increase your contentment and heighten your joy in living.

Commitment:

Today, you reaffirm your commitment to each other as beloved partners in marriage. May you continue to strive to be sensitive to each other’s needs, to be open and understanding with each other, to share your thoughts, your feelings, and your experiences with each other. Today, you renew your promise to try always to bring out the qualities of forgiveness, compassion, and integrity in yourselves and in each other.

_____________ and _____________ marriage has certain qualities of contract, in which two people take on the housekeeping tasks of living together, to enhance life’s joy. However, marriage is more than a contract. Marriage is a commitment to take that joy deep, deeper than happiness, deep into the discovery of who you most truly are. And thus, marriage is even deeper than commitment. It is a covenant that says: I love you. I trust you. I will be here for you when you are hurting, and when I am hurting, I will not leave.

Vows:Please face each other and join hands

Husband/Wife: _________will you continue to have ________ as your husband/wife, to love honor and cherish in sickness and in health, for richer or poorer, for better or worse, and forsaking all others, for as long as you both shall live? I do

Charge to the Couple:

Happiness in marriage is not something that just happens. It is necessary to create a good marriage. In the art of marriage, the little things become the big things.

• It is never being too old to hold hands.
• It is remembering to say, “I love you” each day.
• It is never going to sleep angry.
• It is at no time taking the other for granted.
• It is speaking words of appreciation and demonstrating gratitude.
• It is having the capacity to forgive.
• It is giving each other space in which each can grow.
• It is cultivating flexibility, patience, understanding and a sense of humor.
• It is not looking for perfection in each other.
• It is not only marrying the right partner; it is BEING the right partner.

Marriage can be an outward expression of a great love, which is characterized by passion and courage.Such a love requires that you be totally honest with yourself and your partner. Always love your partner for who they are, not for who you think they should be.Remember, “Working on relationships is necessary all the time, not only when they are broken and need to be fixed. Never stop doing the things that brought you together in the first place.”

Pronouncement:

Before these witnesses, you have joined yourselves in solemn matrimony. May you strive all your lives to meet this commitment with the same love and devotion you possess. For love is truly the greatest gift we are given to share. Delight in each other’s company and never take each other for granted.

___________and __________today you have renewed the vows you made to each other on your blessed wedding day. You have symbolized the renewal of your union by the joining of hands and taking of vows.

It is with pleasure that I conclude the ceremony of renewing the vows of marriage that join and bind you as husband and wife.

Please celebrate this renewal of vows with a kiss!