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Tuesday, May 31st, 2011
Why do women transpose their wedding bands after they married? (place it behind the engagement ring)?
Many women who have an engagement ring have their wedding bands placed in front, but after the ceremony, they place the band behind the engagement. Why is that? Are there traditions associated with this?
In some cultures the wedding ring is the same ring as the engagement ring and merely has its name changed at the time of marriage while other cultures have two distinctive rings.
Though the custom of giving the bride a ring at the ceremony dates back centuries and was originally tied to an exchanging of valuables between the two families, the double ring ceremony in which the groom also is given a ring did not come into play until the early 1900s. Even at that time only roughly 10% of weddings included double ring ceremonies, it wasn’t until the late 1940s that the majority of weddings consisted of the groom being given a ring as well.
The placement of the wedding ring on the bride is also open to some interpretation. One tradition states that the wedding ring should be worn at the base of the finger so as to be closer to the heart of the bride; the engagement ring is then placed above the wedding ring. Another tradition states that the wedding ring is worn above the engagement ring so as to symbolically include the engagement ring and its meanings within the wedding vows.
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