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Choose Your Wedding Band Style
Your wedding band should appropriately represent your love and be an
item you can wear with pride. When you embark on your exciting and
emotional purchasing journey, consider wedding bands that fit your
personal taste and budget.
Take time to talk with one another and share your thoughts and wishes
before you start to shop. Do you want matching wedding bands or do you
want a ring that reflects your personal style? Do you want your wedding
bands to match your engagement ring? Do you have a cultural tradition you
want to follow with your wedding bands? What type of wedding ring would
look best on your hand?
Embrace your culture
When you slip a wedding band onto your new spouse's ring finger for the
first time, you may want it to hold both cultural and emotional
significance. Popular cultural traditions include:
Irish Claddagh rings: The heart in a claddagh ring symbolizes love,
while the crown denotes eternity and the clasped hands mean friendship.
Jewish wedding bands: The traditional Jewish wedding band is a plain,
unbroken gold circle that represents a pure and eternal union.
Russian wedding rings: Russian wedding rings have three interlocking
bands that represent the Holy Trinity. Each band may be a different shade
of gold: rose gold, white gold, or yellow gold.
Traditional wedding bands: Early Egyptians thought
wedding bands created a never-ending circle of love that carried over to
the afterlife. The tradition of wearing a band on the third finger started
with the ancient Greeks, who thought a vein linked that finger directly to
the heart. Later, around the time of Pope Nicolas I, it came to mean a
legal and binding agreement as well. Today’s traditional Western wedding
bands stem from both ancient Egyptian and Greek beliefs, representing a
spiritual (or religious) and legal commitment between two people.
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