To think having a whole other wedding 10 years later is odd?

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I saw some photos the other day of Marvin and Rochelle Humes having a full on second destination wedding to celebrate their 10 year anniversary. I keep thinking how weird this is but it's just being celebrated in the media/SM and noone seems to be commenting how it's odd. Is this now a thing?

I can't get my head around having a whole other wedding ceremony in full wedding dress, another hen/stag do after just 10 years. I was married a similar time ago with DC the same age as theirs and it feels like the blink of an eye. I just cannot imagine expecting all my family and friends to spend time celebrating us all over again. We had our moment and life has moved on and is full of new challenges and opportunities and joy.

I suppose in some ways it's no different from someone having a second dress or second hen party for a second marriage, so why do I find this so strange? It just seems a really weird (and if I'm honest slightly self obsessed) thing to do.

I think if you had a disaster of a wedding , maybe a small wedding because that's all you could afford or maybe because your parents paid for it and you had to do it there way , then maybe you just want to do it all again

I think it’s nice. I loved our wedding day and would happily attend such events! People tend to need a big event to get together.

Gossip is Marvin strayed I think. I always do think when people renew their vows it comes from a place that one of the partnership has broken a vow, otherwise why unless the first time you eloped?

I wouldn’t do it but each to their own, if they want to do it good luck to them.

Attention seeking nonsense. Unless the initial wedding was in very unusual circumstances (I’m thinking of the covid ceremonies where you could have 6 people and no reception where a party a year later seems fair enough) then as far as I’m concerned you get one go at your wedding. No one else is interested enough in your relationship to want to celebrate it every ten years!

A vow renewal is usually down to someone cheating.

Yeah, I saw a pic of it on a magazine on a newsstand and it was pretty eye roll inducing.
My PIL had a lovely vowel renewal at a church for their 25th, with a little party afterwards. MIL wore a lovely silver/ grey dress. But ten years in wearing a full on white wedding gown again?? Give me a break. They’ve always been an embarrassing couple though in my opinion. Thank god they don’t regularly try and present on This Morning anymore. Cringe.

Oh wow, did they!!! We got married in 2012 too and agree it feels like not very long ago. Lots has happened but not a lifetime really.

Probably paid for by a magazine & free publicity

Who are these people?

I would find one wedding exhausting enough I can’t imagine doing it twice with the same person.

Someone cheated!

my cousin did this. He cheated. They did it all over and again and fuck me do they seem happier this time! Only time will tell though I guess

Yeah. I thought that too.

I’ve always thought if vows are renewed it’s because one was broken…don’t know if that’s true but it’s what I assumed

It feels a bit weird to renew vows when one of them has cheated because clearly the vows meant nothing first time round.
Saying that I don't know who these people are.

Yep, vow renewal is "fucked someone else, let's pretend to start again"

They probably looked around at all the celeb weddings happening and thought 'I want a piece of that pie' in the form of of lots and lots of attention and people gushing over them as well of course as the £££ from a magazine deal, which I'm assuming they got.

I find wedding renewals utterly naff (aside from Pete and Dawn of course ) but even doubly naff when they're not just having a vow renewal but a full on repeat of the big white wedding.

Those 2 would do anything for attention!

Vow renewals = which one had an affair?

I saw that - it feels a bit bad taste in the current financial climate. Ostentatious displays of wealth are a bit off when many people are suffering.

It doesn’t seem strange to me if you think about what the life of a celebrity looks like. Particularly people like them ie got famous the traditional way (singers etc) but then ended up mostly “influencing” on social media and presenting.
They have done the big wedding thing and they’ve had three children so what next to stay relevant, get a magazine deal, get about twenty Instagram posts out of?

I actually think as celeb couples go they’re actually alright but still it’s a very shallow world they inhabit.

I agree. Totally self-absorbed to expect friends and family to attend, pay money etc when you’re already married. If it’s just them and their kids, non-issue, do what you want!

They probably won’t have a career or be relevant to OK magazine by the time they’re married 25 years so they decided to do it now while they’re known!

I saw it and thought I'd love to have another wedding 😄 We're married longer than them but any excuse for a party and to bring loved ones together after all the isolating. I'd also love the chance to have a completely different day from the first one.

It is usually because one of them cheated. Why do you need to renew your vows unless you've betrayed them?

I really hate the MN view that anything celebratory means you're attention seeking/someone's cheated/someone's fucked up etc.

It is perfectly possible to want to celebrate the life you've had with someone further down the line. You're allowed to have a big wedding because you want all your loved ones together. You're allowed to renew your vows just because you love someone.

My wedding was the best day of my life. Of course I'd want to do it again.