Reaffirmation of Vows

A number of couples choose to celebrate their anniversaries by having a ceremony to renew their wedding vows. Other couples, married in a civil ceremony for one reason or another, choose to reaffirm their vows under religious auspices. As with any other invitation, invitations to reaffirmation ceremonies should reflect the formality of the occasion.

My father became ill a couple of months before I was supposed to be married. Instead of the large church ceremony that we planned, my fiancé and I were married in my father's hospital room. We would still like to be married in our church. How should our invitations read?

Your invitations may be issued by either your mother or by you and your fiancé. If you were married in a religious ceremony, your invitations would read as a reaffirmation of your wedding vows. If, however, you were married in a civil ceremony and now wish to get married in a religious ceremony, your invitations would state that the ceremony was being performed to solemnize your marriage. (To solemnize means to make right before God.)