Couples may decide to hold a ceremony to renew their vows for many different reasons.

Renewals of vows are very popular with couples who may have married interstate or overseas with family and friends being unable to attend.  It is also suitable for married couples, who, after separation, have reunited.  Some may also feel the need for such a ceremony when their original wedding ceremony, for one reason or another, was not as meaningful to them as they would have desired.  I can assist you making your renewal of vows memorable and magical, just as you would desire and require it to be.

By renewing your vows you are speaking first of all of your love and commitment to each other and then to all those family and friends that you invite to share this special ceremony with you.

Some couples may choose to re-enact as closely as possible what happened on their original wedding day. This is a type of re-affirmation when you say to each other "Everything that I said at our wedding I mean in the same way today. I still love you as much and I renew my promises to you."

Some couples believe that they have progressed in their relationship or that something has changed that makes them want to make this occasion something different from their wedding day.

They choose to make new promises that express more appropriately their developed and evolved relationship as it is today.  They are saying to each other "I love you differently to the love I had for you on our wedding day, but I want you to know that my commitment to you is just as strong as and maybe even stronger than it was, because of what we have been through and shared together."

All the elements of the traditional marriage ceremony are suitable for renewal of vows; however it is important to note that a renewal of vows is a recommitment to one another and not a legal binding ceremony.