As you go through the years of your marriage, you will soon realize exactly why wedding vows are essential part of marriage. Commitment is very easy when you are in love, happy, and are walking down the aisle, but I tell you it is not easy when things go wrong.

When you first say your wedding vows, you take them to heart, but you don't realize its deeper meaning. When you use traditional vows, you may think the parts that talk about sickness and health, richer and poorer, and better or worse are quaint, but they don't mean much.

The true measure of any marriage is when things go wrong. Think about poorer, worse, and sickness. Those are all things that can put to test the deepest of loves. When they happen, couples really understand the importance of commitment. Are they going to honor their wedding vows or not? Commitment means sticking it out even when you don't want to be there, and that is a promise many give up on too easily. There are some reasons that seem to void wedding vows, but other than abuse or abandonment, the union should be saved if at all possible. That is what commitment is all about.

When things go wrong, and couples work through whatever happened, they may want to find ways to show each other that they really mean what they say and that they want things to be good again. One thing some do is go through therapy, and that can do wonders, or they may find special ways to show a renewed love and marriage. Some think that renewing their wedding vows is the way to go, and that can make a strong statement to the spouse and the family that may have known that things were not so good for a while. This reaffirms what their marriage vows mean to them, and even that they really understand what they mean now.

What you should think about when renewing marriage vows is what you want to say. You may want to recite the ones that you said on your wedding day, or you may want to do something else. Many who are looking to renew wedding vows often want to write their own so that they can cover what may have gone wrong and what they have learned about marriage and their spouse. Either is great, and you really can't go wrong if you follow your heart.