Ceremonies to re-affirm or renew your marriage vows are popular with couples who may have married interstate or overseas with family and friends being unable to attend. Through ceremonies, we express feelings and emotions that we can never quite express in any other way. All people hold ceremonies to celebrate the most important events of life.
You have decided that you want to renew your vows. People decide to hold a ceremony to renew their vows for a number of different reasons. Whatever your reason you will want the occasion to be memorable and meaningful. By renewing your vows you are speaking first of all to each other and then to all those family and friends that you invite to share the ceremony with you.
Some couples choose to re-enact as closely as possible what happened on their actual 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 relationship now.
These couples 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 shared together."