Were the two of you married at city hall or other civil type vow exchange?  Has your relationship developed stronger as time passes by, maybe it is time to renew those vows, but now, in front of friends and family.

        Sample Renewal Vows

Wedding Guests, Please, take your seats--

Groom and Bride, please,  join hands and face each other.
Groom and Bride, behind you stands a magnificent Oak Tree.  Like the love between the two of you, it has grown with strength over the years.

Let this be a day of gladness, thanksgiving, and good fortune for all of us, but especially for you two, Groom and Bride, who are here to renew and celebrate your love.

Just as Spring blossoms anew after Winter, spouses renew their love for each other in their daily lives.

 
Today marks the 00 anniversary of your marriage, and today is for you to renew your vows and love as husband and wife. 

Today begins the new Spring of this year's love, so may it be renewed each day in your hearts.

Groom and Bride, have you come here freely and with the intention to renew your marriage vows?

Groom and Bride:   We have.

Will you continue to love and honor each other as man and wife, every day, as you have promised to do?

Groom and Bride:    We will.

Will you love, comfort, and honor, keeping each other forever more?

Groom and Bride:   We will

Groom, do you again take Raquel as your wife, to continue to be faithful to her in tender love and honor, offering encouragement and companionship, and to continue to live with her and cherish her?

Groom:     I do.

Bride, do you again take Louiss as your husband, to continue to be faithful to him, in tender love and honor, and to offer encouragement and companionship, and to continue to live with him and cherish him?

Bride:      I do.

Will your ring bearer please present your rings!
The wedding ring is the outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual bond, which unites two loyal hearts in endless love.

These circles are designed without ending, so they speak of eternity. May the incorruptible substance of these rings represent a love, which  glows with increasing luster through the years, and may all good and holy beings upon this Earth bless these rings which you give to each other as the sign of your love, trust, faithfulness, respect, and devotion.

Groom, repeat after me.

With this ring/ I continue my promise to you/  that I will be your faithful partner in life,

Bride, repeat after me

With this ring/ I continue my promise to you/   that I will be your faithful partner in life.

From Reverend Pattidawn:  May your joys be as sweet as spring flowers that grow,

As bright as a fire when winter winds blow,

As countless as leaves that float down in the fall,

As serene as the Love that keeps watch over all.

I now pronounce that you have today reaffirmed your life's commitment to one another.  

Go forth in love and friendship for the rest of the days of your life together.  

Wedding guests,  please rise and welcome Goom and Bride

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                     Louis and Raquel

           GOOD LUCK

It is considered good luck for a bride to meet a lamb, a dove, a spider, a policeman, a clergyman, a doctor, a blind man or a black cat on her way to her wedding ceremony.

For good luck, the groom should give a coin to the first person he sees on his way to the church.

If the bride or a child cry during the wedding service, it is considered lucky.

Dating back to Victorian times, seeing a chimney sweep on the way from the church will bring good luck.

During the Middle Ages, some Jewish weddings were held in cemeteries, since it was believed the life-affirming act of marriage could halt plagues.

         BAD LUCK

It is considered bad luck for a bride to meet a pig or pass a funeral on the way to her wedding ceremony.

For country brides, a cock crowing after dawn of the wedding day is a bad omen.

Pins are considered unlucky, so the cautious bride should throw every pin away when removing her gown and veil.

It is bad luck for the groom to see his bride’s wedding gown before the wedding day, and it will bring more bad luck if he looks at the gown as she walks down the aisle.

CHOOSING AN AUSPICIOUS WEDDING-GOWN COLOR

Married in white, 
You have chosen a right. 
Married in blue, 
Your lover is true. 
Married in pink, 
Your fortunes will sink. 
Married in green, 
You will not long be seen. 
Married in yellow, 
Ashamed of the fellow. 
Married in brown, 
You’ll live out of town. 
Married in gray, 
You’ll live far away. 
Married in black, You’ll wish you were back.

CHOOSING AN USPICIOUS WEDDING DATE

A January bride will be a prudent housekeeper, 
And very good-tempered. 
A February bride will be an affectionate wife, 
And a tender mother. 
A March bride will be a frivolous chatterbox, 
Somewhat given to quarreling. 
An April bride will be inconsistent, or forceful, 
But well-meaning. 
A May bride will be handsome, agreeable, 
And practical. 
A June bride will be impetuous, 
And generous. 
A July bride will be handsome, 
But a trifle quick-tempered. 
An August bride will be agreeable, 
And practical as well. 
A September bride will be discreet, affable, 
And much liked. 
An October bride will be pretty, coquettish, 
Loving but jealous. 
A November bride will be liberal and kind, 
But sometimes cold. 
A December bride will be fond of novelty, Entertaining but extravagant.