The most important attribute of marriage is the wedding ring. There is no wedding at all without wedding rings. In fact, two conditions are required for a wedding: the bride and groom, and the presence of engagement rings. You can make wedding without a wedding dress, without a veil, without a wedding bouquet, without witnesses, guests, banquet and all other attributes of the wedding. Loving hearts perform the most intimate wedding ritual by putting a ring on the hand of your future life partner. Wedding rings bind two fates firmly and permanently, ideally – till the death.

But what does an engagement ring really mean?

There are many comic interpretations on this subject. For instance, starting score in a married life is 0 : 0. Probably, this version was invented by grooms (football lovers) who secretly hope to score more than one ball into the bride’s gates when they are getting married. Although life after the wedding shows that the brides are much more effective in breaking through their betrothed’s penalty kick and can easily parry any blow of the groom in their gates.

A more radical version says that engagement rings are checks from grenades. That is, according to this version the wedding is the beginning of the war in which each of the spouses puts a grenade to each other.

Another version is that an engagement rings are the real shackles or handcuffs. This version is not as scary as it seems at first glance. For instance, to chain the bride to the bed is the dream of any groom! How do you think? In general, you can look at any thing in different ways, everything depends on the mood of the beholder.

In fact, the symbol of infinite love is one of the true values of an engagement ring. In ancient times a ring was considered as amulet. When you put it on the hand of the loved one you protect your partner from all sorts of misfortunes and adversities, from everything bad and hostile.

Where did the tradition of wearing an engagement ring come from?

Rings were worn in ancient Egypt. There was even a hieroglyph in the shape of a ring meaning infinity. Egypt can be considered as the source of the wedding tradition of the lovers’ betrothal. Here, in the valleys of the fertile Nile under the blessed sun, one of the oldest civilizations on the Earth blossomed. Many of the traditions known to us originated here, including traditions of betrothal and wedding. Egyptians in love wore engagement rings on the middle finger of their left hand.

In ancient Rome there were rings also, but they were worn only by women. Betrothal took place long before the wedding – the groom put on the hand of his bride an iron ring which she had to wear before marriage, so that everyone could see if the girl was already engaged. After the wedding the groom took off an iron ring and put on a gold ring.

In the Jewish tradition the groom gave the bride not a ring but a gold coin as a sign of his serious intentions and symbol of his prosperity. The engagement ring was always made of gold and was already worn by the bride at the wedding.

Step2Love hopes this article has revealed interesting facts about such an important attribute of the wedding as wedding rings.

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