Renewing Wedding Vows
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Renewing Wedding Vows is on my mind this week.
I haven’t mentioned this to my wife, Bunch, yet, but I’ve already been thinking about renewing ours.
I’d better tell her soon. Actually, I expect to find she’s already been thinking about renewing wedding vows, too.
Renewing wedding vows these days usually involves lots of personalizing. Like their first wedding vows, renewal vows are often created — in part, or entirely — by the bride and groom.
Yet all wedding vows seem to reach back to include a traditional sentiment about “for better or for worse”.
After being married almost 40 years now, I understand that most sentiments like “for better or for worse” mean sometimes you can be together to hold hands, and other times the best you can do is share a phone call.
But you can always share SOMETHING.
By the way, we can always share some good time at a party. Any party. Here’s a picture of Bunch, me, and my sister, Kay, at my birthday party some years ago. Yeah, right, one way or another, I’m always attending a wedding or party. Even my own. (And what’s with those huge eyeglasses?)
Here we are again, about 15 years ago, joining the celebration at my niece Bonnie’s wonderful wedding reception. In my eyes, Bunch hardly changes, but I’m glad to be about 40 pounds lighter nowadays.
I’ve participated in easily over a thousand wedding ceremonies with the Magnolia Jazz Band, and there’s always been something in the wedding vows that chokes me up. I’m just a softie, I guess, but I don’t mind.
Sometimes the trigger comes from that well-known passage attributed to the Apostle Paul. You know, the one beginning, “Love is patient, love is kind…”. Gets to me every time.
I wonder why. My first guess is that I’m so deeply touched by the newlyweds’ vow to make such a total personal commitment. The divorce rate in America should make many newlyweds pretty embarrassed after several years. What is it now — about 50%? Something like that.
Humiliating, that people can’t keep such a profound promise.
Well, I think it’s a profound promise. Maybe 50% of today’s newlyweds disagree, and instead opt for pursuing momentary convenience, rather than working to maintain a lifelong bond. I hope the problem isn’t so black-and-white after all, but it seems to me all it takes is two people wanting to work together.
What do you think? Is getting married these days really like just trying on a new pair of shoes?
Hmmm… maybe I’m just getting too old to like freedom without responsibility.
Bottom line: I hope newlyweds cherish their wedding vows, and live by them. Renewing wedding vows is a wonderful way to keep their original promise alive. Have you renewed yours?
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