Wait! Do not Buy Your Ring without Knowing these Wedding Ring Customs

You must have glanced at a jewellery shop window at least once and been arrested at the sight of the beautiful wedding ring on the sight of the beautiful wedding ring on display. The grand sight of wedding rings makes you think of your wedding day if not yet married.

Even otherwise the wonderful sight of wedding ring brings to you nostalgic memories of how special your wedding day was many or a few years back. Though wedding rings all over the world symbolizes fidelity they are imbued with different interesting customs.

Everything About Wedding Rings:

It is a well known fact that a wedding ring is a symbol of marriage, worn on either the ring finger of the right or left hand. Western culture allows it on the left hand while in Russia, Germany, Bulgaria, Norway or Poland it is worn on the right hand.

According to some customs, the wedding ring is presented at the very last in an array of gifts engagements ring is included often in these gifts.

In European tradition, the name of the spouse and date if wedding are engraved on the wedding ring. This is a symbol of the strength of their union.

According to English custom the best man’s duty is to keep track of the couple to be married as wedding ring. The best man presents them the ring at the critical moment during the wedding ceremony when the wedding rings are exchanged.

This role is assigned, according to western culture to the ring bearer carrying the rings on a pillow. He is a young boy a relative of either the bride or the groom.

The exact reason for wearing the ring traditionally on the ring finger, dates back to classical times. During those days they thought that the ring finger on the left hand contained the vein of love or the “vena amoris”.

When you spot a wedding ring next time in a show room window don’t be selfish and consider what it means to you. Extend your thought to what it has meant to hundreds of happily married couples for centuries together. Also think about the many customs that have made what the ring means to couples today.