military vow renewal etiquette question help!!!

You can have your wedding however you want!!!! My FH is a marine and we are doing a completely normal wedding

You can do whatever you want! My husband is a marine we got married before he deployed, but didn't have a actual wedding. Now that he is back we are having our actual wedding with all the works!

You can do whatever you want.

Phrasing wise you would (if you do invites) list it as the wedding celebration, not 'you are invited to the wedding ceremony', because technically you had a ceremony, so your invites would read 'you are invited to the wedding celebration'

And yes, if you go on the knot, they will bite your head off, but do what you want, who cares? Life is short, if you want a fancy dress party do it. Im doing it too, because im a military wife who had no wedding celebration either

I would skip the shower -- after 7 years of marriage, you'll probably have everything you need.

But, go with everything else!

Agree with nancy - skip the shower. do whatever you want otherwise

You're allowed to do anything you want. I wouldn't go to a shower for someone who was married for seven years.

Have a lovely renewal, but just don't make it look like a "wedding" because you are already married. Having "brides"maids would be silly because your not a bride, your a wife! Same with a shower. Your wedding day has already happened (congrats!) so just have a kick ass party!

Thank you for your service, BTW.

You could always have a shower and just say no gifts that way you could still get the experience (this was FH's idea ). Also do what you want I think it is completely understandable and common for military members. I may be getting deployed around the date of our wedding so we already have the court room marriage wedding after as a back up plan!

Have your day however you want!! Don't let anyone tell you otherwise. :-)

Thank you for your service. My Hubby served in the Air Force

I agree to skip the shower. But you could have a girls' night out and just hang out with some friends if you want to celebrate that way, or maybe a Couples Getaway right beforehand, but that's up to you. And if you want to have a bridal party, you go right ahead and have a bridal party. If you want to have your dad walk you down the aisle, go for it. If you want to wear a big poofy ballgown, it's YOUR vow renewal and you want to have the event of YOUR dreams, then you go with your heart.

Hubby and I are renewing our vows for our 10th wedding anniversary this year in August and we're doing it up with a ceremony, reception, cocktail hour, all the bells and whistles. My original MOH and BM are standing up for us again as our "bridal party", I'm having a dress made, first dance, cake cutting, photographer, videographer, photo booth - the works!

Please keep us posted on your planning. Would love to follow your ideas and see how everything is coming along.

Thanks everyone for the support, I didnt have any bridesmaid at my courtroom wedding so I would like to have my best friends help with my special day. I seen in another post that instead of having a shower they just had like a girls day so I was thinking of maybe just having a spa day or maybe go to a wine tasting or something but im not sure because my family might insist on wanting to throw me a shower. But thank you for all the feedback and support for this issue. Ill make sure I keep everyone updated with my plans.

I am having a girl's night out two days before our wedding celebration. We are renewing everything next year as it is our five year anniversary. We are not having an actual wedding, no gift registry, and we are calling what would be our honeymoon, our getaway. We are doing it all like an actual wedding, minus the things I mentioned above. Oh, and we're skipping the bridesmaids and such.