The Good Feed Blog Editors wonder when and why.
(Full disclosure: Jamie loves everything about Mariah, to include her Long Island accent, and thinks her “All I Want for Christmas” is the best seasonal song written in the past sixty years. He does wish, though, she had abstained from the boob job.)
USA Today reports that Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon reviewed their wedding vows on the Eiffel Tower yesterday. They’ve been married, at most, four years.
We question why they made it a public spectacle. Seems like a marriage vow renewal should be intimate. And…maybe happen after at least a decade has passed.
What do you think about vow renewals?
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I think in this case, they had been through some health scares and probably wanted to re-enforce their love for one another because usually that kind of stuff makes you dig into all those wonderful things we can sometimes take for granted through the daily chores of life. I also, don’t see why it shouldn’t be public. Their lives are both public. They are both famous and wouldn’t do it if they didn’t like being in the public eye. They are entertainers. And there is something kind of cool about being able to proclaim to the whole world, that you… Read more »
Daily affirmation is better than renewing every so many years.
You’re still a virtual newlywed at five years, so this sounds like trouble to me. I truly hope I’m wrong but the need to do a four year renewal done publicly sounds like an act of desperation.
My wife and I renewed our vows at the 25 year mark. It’s been 13 years since then and I hope we’ll renew them again for our 50th. It’s nice to remind ourselves what we vowed to do. It’s truly been for better and for worse, sick and healthy …. it’s nice to know that we’ve kept true to our promise to one another.
Just like a wedding I think a vow renewal is just trying to create a concrete manifestation of emotions that aren’t really there. Kind of like “thou doth profess too much”
My husband and I are renewing on our 5th…..because we never got to have a wedding. I love him more intensely now than I did when I said the words. At first I never wanted to bother, but I realized later that there is something valuable to this tradition. There is something cementing about publicly committing to your loved one in front of your family and friends. I wish I were more eloquent in explaining this and it is doubly special to me because we’ve been through a lot in the past 5 years. And before anyone believes my husband… Read more »