A vow renewal is the chance to say the thing the first wedding didn't quite get to. Ten, twenty-five, fifty years in — there are things you couldn't have known to promise back then. A custom song for a vow renewal lets you promise them now, with the evidence of the years already in your hands.
What this kind of song holds
These songs hold the marriage as a long body of work. They hold the year you almost didn't make it. They hold the year you did. They hold the children, the houses, the moves, the burials, the additions. The best ones make the gathered crowd realize they are watching a real marriage, not a re-staged wedding.
What to put in the intake
Tell us the years. Tell us what you almost lost. Tell us what you found. Tell us what you would say to the version of you who said yes the first time. The song writes from the inside of a long marriage, not from outside it.