 | | shallow imitation of the love I feel for you today. Every year, in your dear, precious way, you have made me love you more and more. And why? Because the more I know you, the more I love you. You are worthy of a deep, holy love, and that is what I feel for you today as I gladly recommit my heart and life to you."
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| | "On this day _________ years ago, I promised to love you and cherish you all the days of my life. I hereby reaffirm that promise, in the presence of God and our family. ______________, you have been my friend and companion and the revered mother/father of our children, but, most of all, you have been my beautiful loving bride/handsome loving husband for all these years, and I renew my pledge to you today of my eternal devotion."
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Reaffirmation Vows with the Wine Ceremony
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(The couple sips from the same glass or silver cup and then recites these vows.)
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| | "As we drink together from this cup of wine, so may we continue in a perfect union of love and devotion to each other as we continue to draw contentment, comfort and felicity from the cup of life, and thereby find life's joys doubly gladdening and its bitterness sweetened by our true companionship and love."
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If you are having a formal reaffirmation ceremony or if you enjoy the classics, look in Chapter 9 for the reaffirmation selections, including writings by Shakespeare, Kahlil Gibran, John Keats, Robert and Elizabeth Browning, Walt Whitman and Anne Bradstreet.
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