Vow renewal:

I know I am not married yet, but I still wonder why people renew their vows after they have promised to love each other forever already once.

This is said to be done time after the original wedding when couples chose to stay together. (This makes sense if you think about how marriages were arranged most of the time.)

In modern day, couples renew vows at certain time marks such as 5, 10, 20,25, or 50 years of marriage or after a hard problem they recently faced that made them stronger, and by which they are willing to promise love to one another all over again.

So romantic. *sigh*

Why shall I have a first dance?

This is just a way to be courteous, as much as that crushes your sentimental reasoning.

In the early times of balls, the dance would be open by any member of royalty, if present or by the guest of honor, which in weddings happen to be the newlyweds.

Although it is a romantic way to begin the ceremony and that it touches guests’ hearts, the first dance is simply to get the dancing and the party started.

This is a tradition with little meaning behind it, yet one of the most popular today. I will also be having a first dance at my reception, because well, it’s my wedding.