Renewing wedding vows?

[Deb]

Wife's sister decided she wants to renew her wedding vows. Brother in law wears no pants in the family but would be the first to laugh his butt off at any of us getting roped into the same. Of course my wife who is loyal to her sister wants us to go. Late September when EVERYTHING hunting and fishing related is going on. Thing is out of town and dress up formal.

The "renewing" couple has been married for 30 years and hasn't had anything out of the normal to justify the occasion. Heck, I've been married longer than that. My wife will be disappointed if I don't go and the rest of the family will call me names. I don't have anything planned as of yet but that time of year the fish are biting, exotic hunters can book at the last minute and there's a ton of stuff to be done getting ready for bow season. Thinking about thumbing my nose at the whole affair.

The renewing vows thing is foreign to me. What y'all think?

I don't get the whole "vow renewal" thing either, Ricky, but you're stuck, brother.

[SmTx]

I'm going to have a renewal after I've been married 20 years. When my wife and I first got married we were young and had no family on either side that could help pay for a wedding. Add that my wife was pregnant at the time of marriage I was more worried about having cash for my daughter instead of a wedding. So we went to the court house and got hitched.

I think my wife deserves a special service. She's been a heck of a wife and regrets not having a formal ceremony. After putting up with me for 20 years I feel I owe her that. She doesn't even know that this is on my radar either and hasn't asked other then just passing conversation that she would like a formal ceremony.

Never thought about it from this side. I can see wanting to do it under like circumstances.

[Tmag]

Been through 2 of them with my bride of 37 years, first time somewhere around the 10 year mark and the second time between the 20 and 25. Both events were with our church and included several other couples and were at the culmination of a marriage retreat. The first in Corpus at a nice place on the beach, and "that's all I have to say about that.", and the second at our present church.
Say what you want, if my wife asks me to go then I am going. I married her, not a bow or a gun or a hunting season. She is sparkle in my eye and she is the sun rise in my life and there isn't an animal on this earth that could ever replace her.
If that isn't enough, my daughter booked a cruise for her and my SIL and then asked her Mom and I to join them, we leave on October 7 for Jamaica, Cayman, and Cozumel. I'll miss the 13th and maybe even the 6th, but my daughter is worth it to me.

[Ricky T]

Tmag, there you go using good sense again. Quit that.

BTW, these folks had a big, huge wedding to begin with.

[Tmag]

Tmag, there you go using good sense again. Quit that.

BTW, these folks had a big, huge wedding to begin with.

I know you too well brother. I hear you but you know you gotta be there for her. It ain't about them, it's about her and all you do for her.

[az2tx]

My wife told me once that she'd like to renew our vows at 20 years. I jokingly told her, "When we said them the first time you were 21years old, a size 4, and had no kids. What makes you think I'd marry a 41 year old, 'former size 4', with 4 kids"? She didn't think that was too funny.

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