Ringing In The New Dawn With The Glittering Token Of Love

By Author: Raja Babu
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Wedding ring is a good old tradition of marriage wear-in identity followed in many countries and religions like Hinduism and Christianity, as it marks the beginning of a bride and groom becoming man and wife, or in this online matrimony age that simplified the life partner scouting interesting, engaging and interactive. Which not only allows you to surf through the interested profiles but convergence of internet and mobile technology enable you with a real time interaction through a return SMS or e-mail for acceptance or rejection your matrimonial proposal. Still, wearing wedding ring can be looked at as a token of engagement that the girl or the guy is engaged to someone, so others should stay away from proposing them. Tracking the roots of this custom leads to various theories and facts:

Earliest of the belief leads to ancient Rome, and is considered as one of the best theories ever, where they thought the ring finger has a vein called Vena Amoris- the vein of love that connects with the heart. The friction created by the ring on the ring finger resonates deep love in ...
... a married woman’s heart towards her husband. Though modern science busted it as a myth as there’s no love vein connecting the ring finger and heart, but still this myth remains regarded as the best reason for wearing the wedding ring in the ring finger.

The Christian weddings, ever since its inception followed the custom of wearing the marriage ring in the ring finger when the wedding takes place in the church in the presence of a bishop. Unlike other religions and sub communities that include to Tamil speaking people, where a great amount of money is splurged on making the ring in gold with diamond and with other precious stones, Christian’s marriage and engagement rings is mostly plain simple as the free spirited pure love that radiates by union of two hearts.

One of the theories goes that the left hand is usually less used when compared to right hand as majority of people are right handled. So there is minimum wear, tear and damage to the ring, thus left ring finger became the safest place to bear the best symbol of pure love.

People in different countries and different religions like Hindu, Christian, and Muslim, follow different ways in wearing the wedding and the betrothal ring. Europeans wear the ring in left hand before marriage and during marriage the ring is shifted to the right hand. Jewish wedding starts off with the wedding ring worn in index finger and after the ceremony the ring is transferred to the ring finger. Indians wear ring on the right hand ring finger in touch with the belief that the right hand is auspicious.

Whatever be the reason, sporting the ring gifted as a token of love adds charm to the bride and groom which in turn sweetens the occasion. The regal opulence and glitter of ring is sure to turn the event into a golden memory.