Vow Renewal Vows: Complete Guide + 30 Beautiful Examples

Ten years ago, I promised to love you forever. Today, I understand what that promise truly means. I've loved you through the late nights with crying babies, through career changes and moving across the country, through moments of doubt and days of pure joy. I've loved you on ordinary Tuesdays and extraordinary milestones.

I've learned that forever isn't just one grand gesture—it's ten thousand small choices. It's choosing patience when I'm tired. It's choosing forgiveness when I'm hurt. It's choosing us, over and over again.

Today, I renew my promise to you with a fuller heart and deeper understanding. I promise to keep choosing you, to keep growing with you, and to keep falling in love with who you're becoming. Here's to the next ten years, and all the years after that.

A decade ago, we were so young. We thought we knew what marriage meant. We had no idea.

We didn't know about the sleep deprivation, the financial stress, the ways we'd frustrate each other. But we also didn't know about the inside jokes, the quiet moments of connection, the way love could deepen in ways we never imagined.

I promise to keep learning with you. To keep discovering new depths to this partnership. To keep showing up, even when it's hard. To keep loving you, especially when it's hard.

Thank you for ten years of patience, grace, and love. I can't wait for all the years ahead.

Ten years. 3,650 days of being married to you. Some of those days were easy and joyful. Some tested us in ways I never expected. But every single one of them made our story richer.

I renew my vows to you today with gratitude for the journey we've traveled and excitement for the road ahead. I promise to continue being your partner, your friend, your biggest supporter. I promise to keep dating you, surprising you, and choosing you.

You are my home. Today, tomorrow, and for all our tomorrows to come.

Twenty-five years ago, I married my best friend. Today, I stand before you not as the young man who made promises he hoped he could keep, but as someone who has spent a quarter century learning what it means to truly love.

We've raised children together. We've buried loved ones. We've celebrated victories and comforted each other through failures. We've changed in ways we couldn't have predicted, yet somehow, through all of it, we've remained us.

I renew my vows to you with the wisdom of experience and the wonder of someone who falls more deeply in love with you every year. I promise to treasure every day we have left, to never take our love for granted, and to keep building this beautiful life we've created.

Here's to 25 more years, my love.

A quarter of a century. That sounds like a long time, but with you, it's flown by. These 25 years have held more life than I could have imagined—more joy, more challenge, more growth, more love.

I've watched you become an incredible parent, navigate career changes, face health challenges, and still somehow make me laugh every single day. You've held me through my darkest moments and celebrated my brightest achievements.

Today, I don't just renew my vows. I deepen them. I promise to love you through the next chapter with even more intention, more presence, more gratitude. Thank you for 25 extraordinary years. I love you more today than I did on our wedding day, and I know I'll love you even more tomorrow.

When we got married 25 years ago, people told us marriage was hard work. They were right. But what they didn't tell us was how incredibly worth it that work would be.

We've navigated parenthood, career pressures, financial ups and downs, family drama, personal struggles—all of it. And through every challenge, you've been my constant. My partner. My home.

I renew my vows to you today with profound gratitude. I promise to continue showing up for you, fighting for us, and cherishing what we've built. I promise to keep learning, keep growing, and keep loving you with everything I have.

You are still the best decision I ever made.

Fifty years. Half a century of loving you. And somehow, it still doesn't feel like enough time.

We've lived a full life together. We've raised our family, built our home, weathered storms, and celebrated countless blessings. We've grown old together, and what a gift that has been.

Standing here today, I'm overwhelmed by gratitude. Gratitude for your love, your patience, your partnership. Gratitude for the life we've built and the legacy we're leaving.

I renew my vows to you with a heart full of love and a lifetime of memories. I promise to cherish every day we have left together, to hold your hand through whatever comes, and to love you until my last breath.

You have been my everything. You still are. You always will be.

Fifty years ago, we were so young, with our whole lives ahead of us. Today, I look at you and see the journey written in the lines of your face, the wisdom in your eyes, the love in your smile.

We've experienced so much together. Joy beyond measure and grief that almost broke us. Health and sickness. Abundance and struggle. And through it all, your hand in mine.

I don't just renew my vows to you today. I celebrate them. I honor the promises we made and kept. I thank you for choosing me, for staying with me, for building this beautiful life with me.

I love you today as I loved you then, but deeper, richer, and with the profound gratitude of someone who knows how rare and precious this is.

We've been through something that could have broken us. Many couples wouldn't have made it through what we faced. But we're not just surviving—we're here, renewed and recommitted.

I won't pretend it was easy. There were days I didn't know if we'd make it. Days when staying felt harder than leaving. But we did the work. We fought for us. And I'm so proud of what we've overcome together.

Today, I renew my vows to you with eyes wide open. I know who you are—the good and the flawed. I know what we're capable of—the beautiful and the messy. And I choose you. I choose us. I choose the life we're building together, stronger than before.

I promise to keep communicating, to keep growing, and to keep choosing love. Thank you for not giving up on us.

They say what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. I don't know if that's always true, but I know this: what we've been through has made us stronger.

We almost lost this. We stood at the edge of ending, and somehow, we found our way back. It wasn't pretty. It wasn't easy. But we did it together.

I renew my vows to you today with humility and hope. Humility because I know how fragile love can be when we don't tend to it. Hope because I believe in us, in our capacity to heal and grow and build something even more beautiful than before.

I promise to never stop fighting for us, to never stop working on myself, and to never stop cherishing what we have. I love you. I'm committed to you. And I'm grateful for this second chance.

We've weathered the storm, and we're still standing. Tired, perhaps. Changed, definitely. But still together, and that's what matters.

I renew my promise to you today knowing more about what that promise requires. It requires vulnerability, even when I want to protect myself. It requires forgiveness, even when I'm hurt. It requires showing up, especially when it's hard.

I'm not the same person who married you, and you're not the same either. We've been tested, broken down, and rebuilt. But I'm here, and you're here, and we're building something stronger from the pieces.

I promise to keep working on us. To keep learning. To keep loving. Not perfectly, but genuinely. Not easily, but faithfully. I choose you, today and always.

[X] years ago, I promised to love you forever. Today, I keep that promise. I've loved you through every season, and I'll love you through all the seasons to come. You are my forever.

I said yes to you then. I say yes to you now. I promise to keep saying yes to you—to our love, our partnership, our life together—for all the years ahead.

Every day with you has been a gift. Every year has deepened my love. I renew my vows to you with a grateful heart and the certainty that choosing you was the best decision I ever made.

I loved you then. I love you now. I will love you always. That's my promise, renewed today and kept every day.

Time has only made me more certain: you are my person, my home, my love. I promise to keep choosing you, today and every day after.

Years ago, I married you not knowing what forever would look like. Now I know. Forever is every ordinary morning and every extraordinary milestone. Forever is choosing you on easy days and impossible ones. Forever is this love that grows deeper with each passing year.

Today, I renew the most sacred promise I've ever made. I vow to love you with the passion of our beginning and the depth of our history. I vow to see you—truly see you—and to honor who you've become. I vow to be your constant in a changing world, your shelter in every storm.

You are my greatest love story. You are my home. You are my forever.

Time has taught me what my younger self couldn't have known: that love is not just a feeling but a choice made daily. That commitment is not a burden but a privilege. That forever is built moment by moment, choice by choice, day by day.

I renew my vows to you with reverence for the journey we've traveled and anticipation for the road ahead. I promise to cherish the gift of your love, to honor the trust you've placed in me, and to build our remaining years with intention and grace.

My soul knew yours from the beginning. My heart knows yours even better now. I am yours, completely and eternally.

They say love is blind. But time has given me sight. I see your strength and your vulnerability. I see your dreams and your fears. I see the beauty of your soul and the depth of your heart. And seeing all of you, I love you even more.

I renew my vows to you not blindly, but with eyes wide open. I promise to love you with awareness and intention. To honor your journey while walking beside you on mine. To build a love that's not naive but wise, not fleeting but enduring.

You are the love of my life. Not just because of who you were when we met, but because of who we've become together.

[X] years ago, I married you. I had no idea what I was getting into. I didn't know about your inability to load a dishwasher correctly, your questionable taste in TV shows, or your habit of stealing all the blankets.

But I also didn't know how much you'd make me laugh every single day. How safe you'd make me feel. How lucky I'd feel to build a life with you.

I promise to keep tolerating your quirks if you keep tolerating mine. I promise to keep laughing with you (and occasionally at you, lovingly). And I promise to keep choosing you, weird habits and all, for all our tomorrows.

After [X] years of marriage, I've learned a few things. I've learned that you're always right (or at least, it's easier to admit you are). I've learned that "What do you want for dinner?" is the hardest question in marriage. And I've learned that I'd rather be annoyed by you than happy with anyone else.

I renew my promise to love you, to laugh with you, and to probably lose most of our arguments. Thank you for [X] years of putting up with me. Here's to many more.

They say marriage is 50/50. They're wrong. Some days it's 80/20. Some days you carry me. Some days I carry you. But somehow, over [X] years, it's balanced out to a beautiful partnership.

I promise to keep being your partner in crime, your fellow adventurer, and the person who knows all your embarrassing stories but loves you anyway. I promise to keep making you laugh, even when you're mad at me. And I promise to keep stealing your fries and pretending I don't want any.

You're my favorite person to annoy. I love you.