For Vow Renewals, choose either the traditional or non-traditional ceremony (or another of your choice) and we will insert the following passage to acknowledge that this is a renewal:
“Renewing your vows is even a stronger statement of your intention and commitment than saying them the first time. When we first get married, we are hopeful and are often entering into a mysterious unknown entity called marriage. But, when you choose to renew your vows after being together for a period of time, you are making a choice from a place of knowledge. You are choosing each other. You are choosing to stay together. Today, you are choosing to strengthen your commitment to each other.”
Additional 
personalized passages integrating blending families or other family members can also be added.
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Sample Marriage Vow Renewal Ceremony (substitute “bride” and “groom” for your names)
Welcome to this celebration of love. Bride and Groom, may this ___ day of _____, in the year 2009, be a moment in time to be remembered and cherished. Today, we celebrate the reaffirmation of your love. Love is the foundation, the very essence of life. It must be cared for, tended to, and nourished if it is to grow, become strong, and endure.
We say in Hawaii:
Aloha ika ho’o manawanui, Aloha ika loko maika’i, Aloha ike kahi, ike kahi
Love is patient. Love is kind. Love begets love.
Lei Exchange (OPTIONAL)
In Hawaii, we have a tradition of sharing beautiful flower leis. The flowers for the leis have been hand picked and woven together much like your love has been chosen and you are now weaving your lives together. The lei expresses love, respect and reverence.
Groom, you may now offer Bride this lei; This is the very fragrant flower of love. Just like love, the scent is intoxicating and its essence lingers long after the flower.
Bride, you may now offer Groom this lei; Maile is a very rare leaf that must be searched for and gathered and is traditionally worn in honor of special occasions and rites of passage.
Marriage is a very special spiritual connection of two people united on a common path, bringing together love and trust into a single focus. At the same time, your love should give you the strength to stand apart, to seek out your unique destinies, and to grow as individuals.
Marriage requires the faith and commitment of two people to love, to stand by each other, and to support one another through both the good times and the difficult. This commitment is the alignment of your words, which speak boldly of your intentions, and your actions, which speak louder than your words. This requires making the time when there is none, listening not only with your ears—but also with your heart, and taking responsibility for your choices. Coming through for each other, time after time.
Renewing your vows is even a stronger statement of your intention and commitment than saying them the first time. When we first get married, we are hopeful and are often entering into a mysterious unknown entity called marriage. But, when you choose to renew your vows after being together for a period of time, you are making a choice from a place of knowledge. You are choosing each other. You are choosing to stay together. Today, you are choosing to strengthen your commitment to each other.
Reading from Kahlil Gibran (Optional…other readings are available…or no reading)
“Love one another, but make not a bond of love:
Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
Fill each other’s cup but drink not from one cup.
Give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf.
Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone,
Even as the strings of a lute are alone
Though they quiver with the same music.
Give your hearts, but not into each other’s keeping.
For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts.
And stand together yet not too near together:
For the pillars of the temple stand apart,
And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other’s shadow.
Let there be spaces in your togetherness,
And let the winds of the heavens dance between you.”
So, welcome, Bride and Groom, to this moment in your lives, to this place you have come to in each other’s hearts. And, may this shining hour be an open door through which you go now to strengthen the dearest of all human relationships: that of two best friends growing old together in marriage, always fathoming deeper depths, and discovering richer facets of one another’s soul.
Bride and Groom, you are here today to declare and to strengthen your love, and to renew your pledge to each other.
Groom, do you receive Bride as your wedded wife to love, comfort, respect, and to share your life with from this day forward?
And, Bride, do you receive Groom as your wedded husband to love, comfort, respect, and to share your life with from this day forward?
We will now seal this renewed promise of marriage with these wedding rings. These rings are symbols of the unbroken unity of love, now to be continued in your married life. The circle has no beginning and no end, it is eternal and everlasting. Made in the form of the circle, this ring represents the truth of the law of life:
‘As we give to each other, we receive from each other.’
As you place the ring on your beloved’s hand and Bride, as you receive the ring from the hand of your beloved, remember that this will be the first hand extended to pick you up when you have fallen down and it will be the first hand raised to toast all of your joys and all of your successes from this day forward and forevermore.
Bless this ring, bless Groom who gives it and Bride who receives it. May this union be blessed with patience, understanding and eternal joy.
Groom, look into Bride’s eyes, say these words:
Bride, with this ring, I recommit my love,
I have chosen you above all others
for my partner and companion,
and today I am choosing you again.
I shall love you,
and honor you,
and share with you life’s joys
and life’s difficulties.
In sorrow, I shall comfort you,
In times of need, I shall be there for you,
In good times, I shall rejoice with you,
From this day forward and forevermore.
May this union be blessed with kindness, friendship and unconditional love.
Bless this ring, bless Bride who gives it and Groom who receives it. Bride, as you look into Groom’s eyes, say these words:
Groom, with this ring, I recommit my love ,
I have chosen you above all others
for my partner and companion
and today I am choosing you again.
I shall love you,
and honor you,
and share with you life’s joys
and life’s difficulties.
In sorrow, I shall comfort you,
In times of need, I shall be there for you,
In good times, I shall rejoice with you,
From this day forward and forevermore.
May your love grow and bring you peace and joy on life’s path. From each other, may you always find communication, compassion, tolerance, understanding, and forgiveness. And, to each other, may you always be best friends, companions, lovers, partners, and teachers. May your home always radiate an environment of love, happiness, and unity. And whoever enters your home, may they be blessed and inspired by the harmony and love that dwells there.
May we take pause to bless this marriage:
Dear Lord,
Help Bride and Bride remember their intention and commitment made so sincerely today, and the strong love that has guided them to this moment together. Help them to apply that love in practical things so that nothing divides them. We humbly ask for kind words filled with love, and hearts always ready to ask forgiveness as well as to forgive.Divine Spirit, we leave this marriage in your hands. Amen.
You have chosen to reaffirm your love, now go forth and take infuse that love into every action, every word and every thought as you continue the journey of life together as husband and wife, as lovers and as friends,
Those whom Spirit has joined together let no one separate.
You may seal this blessing with a kiss!
Congratulations!
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