East Tennessee couples say “I do” again
Published: February 22, 2006
It’s the day every girl dreams of. Walking down the isle in front of family and friends, and saying I love you to that special someone. In a special vow renewal service at Redemption Church International in Knoxville, hundreds of couples are getting a chance to relive that dream again. Pastors Ed and Nora King are giving the special day to married couples at their church.
“It’s a restatement of something we consider to be very holy and very biblical,” Ed King says.
Many of the men and women in the ceremony have been married 10 years, 30 years, even close to 60 years. It’s a chance to repeat covenant vows already shared once by two people in love.
To have and to hold, from this day forward, to live together in marriage, serving the Lord together, are words Mike Boyd is sharing with his wife Mary after 35 years of marriage.
“Since 1970 the face hasn’t changed, the smile hasn’t changed, the beauty in her eyes hasn’t changed,” Mike says.
Mike fell in love with Mary while in their hometown of Pennsylvania. He was senior and Mary was a junior. Mary, a catholic school girl, had never date before until she met Mike.
“When I saw him I fell in love with his blue eyes,” Mary says.
After dating for several months, Mike went away to Florida for college.
“He moved away and my heart broke,” Mary says.
Mike could only fly up to see Mary once or twice a year. But, on one trip to Pennsylvania he was sure he wasn’t letting her get away.
“I picked her up from the airport one Christmas in the airport parking lot and I asked her to marry me,” Mike says.
Now, 35 years later the word forever has a brand new meaning.
“35 years didn’t go without floods and fire in our life, but we have the Lord to thank for that,” Mary says. “We can say after 35 years we still feel for better or for worse, richer or poorer, you are the one until death do us part.”
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