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Renewing Vows?

Question

Question

We want to have our parents celebrate their 25th wedding anniversaryand my grandparents their 50th wedding anniversary. Will they renew their vows, and exchange rings? What ritual do you do?

--Puzzled in Paris

Answer

Answer

In the Book of Blessings there is an "order" for blessingthe anniversary of marriage. This is the ritual that is followed. The vowsare not exchanged again, nor the rings blessed.