OT: Silver Anniversary

That's disgraceful.

Anyway, if you've made it to 25 you shouldn't need to renew :-)

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Ours was a small party but people kept on coming and we had to move round the table and bring in more chairs, like the Mad Hatter's Tea Party. It was memorable.

Well, I hope you had a great day too and a great evening and ... well, congratulations. Only another 25 years to the next Big One :-) That doesn't mean you shouldn't celebrate your Pearl 930), ruby (40) and Sapphire (45 and difficult to get cards for but we had a lot of fun with everyone dressing in blue, punting on the Cam - Cambridge is the pale blue university, Oxford is the dark blue - eating blue foods and finding wines in blue bottles!)

Mary

Mary

Because every single teeny wedding chapel in the area wants $200, yes two

minute ceremony.

$200 to renew, just because its the Smoky Mountains and Gatlinburg?

out for a nice quiet dinner later on.

different than they were 40 some years ago, Siver Anniversary's were SUCH a

Avoid the wedding chapels (dreadful terminology!) and go to a "real" church or chapel, Episcopalian, Baptist etc. Here in the UK most places I know of won't even charge or at least ask for a nominal donation.

out for a nice quiet dinner later on.

different than they were 40 some years ago, Siver Anniversary's were SUCH a

More likely there are so few of them these days that people don't know that it's a big milestone.

Most of them around where I live will unless you are already affiliated with the church somehow.

If you have no link with them why would you want to renew your vows there?

Mary

I was thinking the same thing, actually.

In the UK there are quite a few people who fall into what one vicar described as the "hatched, matched and despatched" church attendances. However, nowadays people wish to celebrate significant wedding anniversaries by renewing their wedding vows; as people no longer stay in one place for the whole of their lives this would mean a trek back to the church where the original vows were taken unless a local church (of the same denomination) is willing to help.

Our late curate, godfather to a son, called such people 'four wheelers'.

But why renew vows in any church if you have no link with a church?

If you attend any place of worship there wouldn't be a problem.

By the way, the church at the bottom of the street where Spouse and I have lived for forty four years was where two of my grandparents were married (when the church was newly built in the late C19th), where my parents were married, where I was baptised, where I was married, where four of our children were baptised, where one of our children was married and where some of our grandchildren were baptised.

We don't feel the need to renew our vows on any special date, we do it frequently - especially when we attend any marriage, wherever it is. But because St Martin's Potternewton is significant in our lives it will certainly play some part in our Golden Wedding anniversary which is coming up. I ordered the champagne yesterday, if we don't survive it will be used at our funeral/s :-)

Mary

For the same reason that people get christened, married etc in a church with which they have, at best, a very tenuous link.

And why is that?

I was cleaning the caravan and thinking about this - I wonder if anyone ever wants to renew their vows in a registry?

Mary

I've never heard of anyone doing that but, as a church organist, I'm aware of quite a few people renewing their vows at significant (silver, ruby, diamond) anniversaries.

? =A0Because every single teeny wedding chapel in the area wants $200, yes = two

minute ceremony. =A0

er $200 to renew, just because its the Smoky Mountains and Gatlinburg? =A0

going out for a nice quiet dinner later on.

fferent than they were 40 some years ago, Siver Anniversary's were SUCH a

Too bad I wasn't ordained. I could have renewed your vows for free. Well, not for free, exactly. You would have to feed me.

Congratulations! Keith and I celebrated our 25th on July 22nd. We went out to dinner with friends, and relaxed.

Higs, Katherine

Actually, I know some people who renewed their vows at the JP's office.

Higs, Katherine

Actually, I know some people who renewed their vows at the JP's office.

Higs, Katherine

I've never heard of it in Britain - but all that means is that I've never heard of it :-)

Mary

I think that it is more usual to have a minister do the ceremony.

Higs, Katherine

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i'm ordained... but she'd have to give me yarn for services ;) lace weight silk/mohair would work...

i do think silver anniversaries were more celebrated 20 + years ago. you'd think, with fewer people staying together that long now, they would be even more celebrated now, but it doesn't seem so. my parents forstalled us from throwing them big parties for their silver & gold anniversaries though. they preferred the nice quiet dinner. lee

We had two couples who celebrated their ruby weddings on the island last month. They threw a join celebration party & dance with the stipulation that there should be NO presents but instead a donation to a cancer charity. They raised over 700 pounds.

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I like that idea!

Higs, Katherine