Renewing Your Vows

My husband and I recently renewed our wedding vows for our 10 year anniversary. For the past several years, we stopped buying each other anniversary presents and we would just go out to a nice, fancy restaurant to celebrate. We decided together that we struggled too hard trying to find gifts and we didn’t really need anything so the gifts stopped. But for our tenth anniversary we wanted to do something extra special and hence the idea to renew our wedding vows was formed.

For our second time around we decided to just have a casual event and nothing fancy. My husband and I wore jeans and nice shirts and we instructed our family and friends attending to do the same. We wanted everyone there to be comfortable and relaxed. My husband and I prepared all of the food ourselves the day before and I made and decorated the cakes.

We had the same preacher who married us 10 years ago renew our vows and our maid of honor and best man were both there standing beside us. What struck us both odd is that we were both very nervous when we renewed our vows! We never even gave it a thought that we might get nervous. But we had the same emotions as that first time around - we were just dressed more comfortably!