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Posted by Arwen Mosher in News on Thursday, October 20, 2011 9:00 AM
They say a shared hobby can help strengthen a marriage. Here’s one: renewing your wedding vows.
David and Lauren Blair, a Tennessee couple, have renewed their vows 100 times in 27 years of marriage, an average of almost four times a year.
I smiled when I read the story, and I loved the wife’s comment at the end of the article, “David will tell you he does it for the honeymoons!”
You can read about it on the Guinness World Records website. (Their hundredth vow renewal set a new record.)
Obviously not for everyone, but I thought it was pretty cute.
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Wow, what a commitment! I can’t imagine how fun and costly that must be. Most of us can’t even afford to have a nice wedding. Good for them! But maybe a simple celebration will do for the rest of us 
Am I the only one who thinks this makes a mockery of the sacrament of marriage a little? I don’t know these people, but it just gives me weird vibes, you know? Or is it just me?
Beth- So if your parish had a vow renewal for the feast of the Holy Family, as ours does, you wouldn’t partake? My husband and I join hands at every wedding we attend and very quietly renew OUR vows as the couple says theirs. We have also had the opportunity to renew them on a Marriage Encounter Weekend and other Marriage retreats. We meant it the first time, and we mean it every time. I think it’s a wonderful thing if your heart and intention are in the right place. Your husband also said he loved you on the day he married you, still like to hear it, don’t you?
With all the difficulty marriage has these days I don’t think I can put anyone down for renewing their vows too much. I can think of alot of other things that make a mockery of the sacrament of marriage and renewing vows is not one of them.
I renewed my vows with my husband when he returned from a year long deployment. It was just us and our 4 children. No expense, only took about 10 minutes. I think this couple may be a bit showy - anybody who gets themselves in the Guinness Book tends to be that way, but that doesn’t mean that every single vow renewal was a big to-do. Seriously, what family members would keep coming to that. We renew our baptismal vows every Easter, every baptism we attend, and other times of the year. If you are a person who likes verbal affirmation of love, I think there is no better affirmation than this.
We will soon be renewing our vows for the first time - it will be our 15th anniversary. We are just doing it with the kids and priest in church. No friends, relatives or party. After this we will probably do it again at the 25th. One nice thing about renewing vows is the kids get to see it. I think it would be great for them to witness since they weren’t there the first time.
Even if they WERE there the 1st time, it’s nice to see Mom and Dad still mean it. 
I don’t think there’s anything wrong with it. So many people say their vows and don’t mean them (or perhaps don’t truly understand them) - this couple means it each time they say it. And if renewing their vows that many times helps them stay married, more power to them! Lastly, something like this draws attention to the sacrament of matrimony, which is struggling in our current culture with so many people foregoing marriage to just live together. This is positive attention on marriage so good job, Blairs!
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