A vow renewal is a celebration rather than a legal act, which makes it wonderfully simple. You are already married, so there is no registrar, no licence, no documents and no notice period. There is just the two of you, the words you want to say, and a setting that means something. That freedom lets us shape the ceremony entirely around your story, and couples often find a renewal even more moving than the original wedding, because this time they know exactly what they are promising.
What you do and do not need
Because it carries no legal weight, a renewal needs none of the paperwork a wedding does. No birth certificates, no apostille, no licence. What it needs is the part that matters most, the words and the setting. We can provide a celebrant to lead the ceremony, help you write or choose your vows, and arrange everything else exactly as we would for a wedding, the flowers, the beach, the photography and the film.
Beautiful ways to do it
Renewals suit a few lovely shapes. A private one, just the two of you at sunset, marking a milestone anniversary. A family one, with your children part of the ceremony, sometimes for a tenth or twentieth or fiftieth year. Or a quiet one after a hard chapter, an illness come through or a distance closed. Tell us the reason and we build the day to honour it, because a renewal without its story is just a photo shoot, and with it, it is unforgettable.
The day itself
It runs like a wedding without the formalities. Hair and makeup, a walk to the beach we have chosen for the light, the ceremony and your words, and then time together and photographs in the golden hour. If your family is there, we fold them in. Because there is no legal timeline, a renewal can happen on any day of your trip, which makes it easy to build around a honeymoon or a family holiday.
The paperwork you do not need
A vow renewal is a symbolic ceremony, so almost none of the legal machinery on the rest of this site applies to you. There are no banns, no eleven day wait, no apostilles, no birth certificates and no government marriage fee, because there is no marriage being registered. You are already married.
What that buys you is freedom. You can hold it at an hour and on a beach that a registrar's diary would never allow, you can write every word of it yourselves, and you can decide the whole thing three weeks before you fly. The only thing we would ask you to plan around is the season, because wind and light do not care whether a ceremony is legal or symbolic.