What to do for vow renewal?

We had a minimony last year as well and we originally had a wedding celebration scheduled for this March (we just postponed), but we're doing it all again. This time I will wear my big dress, we will include our bridal party, different colors, different everything.

View Quoted Comment I didn't get to wear my dress either 😭 or have our bridal party.

A friend of ours got married privately in the church and had their wedding separately. For them, they did the whole thing as if they were not technically married and it was great! Their motto was “so nice we did it twice” which I thought was adorable!! ❤️

I think you should do whatever you feel comfortable with! You could do the ring exchange again if you wanted, but totally up to you. You could also exchange vows - either your original ones, or write new ones! I love the idea that Katie mentioned: plan for it as if you weren't yet married - "so nice we planned it twice"!

We got married in September without our bridal party as well. I did wear my original dress, because, why not? We're only doing a reception in November as it seems unnecessary for us to go through with another ceremony.

I do not see why you cannot do all that. I am sure people do exactly that for vow renewals outside of a pandemic. I think you should do what is going to make you look back on the day happily.

Do what you feel comfortable with!

I've attended renewals that were the entire ceremony from start to finish, complete with rings and father escorting the "bride". All of those were called first actual weddings by the couples and parents even though it was public knowledge they eloped the month before which they claimed was voided by the renewal or had been married 25/50 years prior. No one from the guests' perspective was impressed or happy by the deception that went along with it. Guests may give it the side eye but you can do anything you want. Just be honest that it's a renewal and not the legal ceremony.

View Quoted Comment Yeah so we're redoing EVERYTHING over lol we won't do the garter toss but we never planned to do that anyways. My fad will be walking me down the aisle again though