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Posted by Samantha Hill - remove TRASH t on August 22, 2008, 6:14 am
Mary Fisher wrote:
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>> Bruce Fletcher (remove dentures to reply) wrote:
>>> 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.
>> Most of them around where I live will unless you are already affiliated
>> with the church somehow.
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> If you have no link with them why would you want to renew your vows there?
I was thinking the same thing, actually.
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Posted by Bruce Fletcher (remove denture on August 22, 2008, 6:35 am
Mary Fisher wrote:
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>> Bruce Fletcher (remove dentures to reply) wrote:
>>> 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.
>> 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?
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.
--
Bruce Fletcher
Stronsay, Orkney UK
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Posted by Mary Fisher on August 22, 2008, 7:00 am
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> Mary Fisher wrote:
>>> Bruce Fletcher (remove dentures to reply) wrote:
>>>> 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.
>>> 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?
> In the UK there are quite a few people who fall into what one vicar
> described as the "hatched, matched and despatched" church attendances.
Our late curate, godfather to a son, called such people 'four wheelers'.
1st visit in a pram
2nd visit in a Rolls Royce or other ostentatious wedding car
3rd visit in a hearse.
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> 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.
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
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Posted by Bruce Fletcher (remove denture on August 22, 2008, 7:10 am
Mary Fisher wrote:
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> But why renew vows in any church if you have no link with a church?
For the same reason that people get christened, married etc in a church
with which they have, at best, a very tenuous link.
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Bruce Fletcher
Stronsay, Orkney UK
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Posted by Mary Fisher on August 22, 2008, 7:57 am
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> Mary Fisher wrote:
>> But why renew vows in any church if you have no link with a church?
> 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
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>>> 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.
>> 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?