Wedding Rings Are One of the Most Recognized Symbols of Love and Commitment

From all over the world wedding rings are one of the most recognized symbols of love and commitment. It's amazing to see how a little thing from  precious metal transcends the cultural barriers. Its sometimes amusing when it happens that the wedding may cost thousands while the slim gold band is a few hundred. This small hunk metal lasts far long and is worn 24/7. Its funny that the fact is that small circular band divides the available and the unavailab  at the glimpse of an eye.
Hand for Wedding Rings

Most people wear their wedding rings on the left hand. As a matter of fact the hand that wedding rings are worn on varies from culture to culture and country to country.

There are Orthodox Christians and Eastern Europeans who typically wear the wedding rings on the right hand. People from countries such as Venezuela Colombia, Germany, Greece, Norway, Peru, Poland, Russia, Serbia, Spain and Ukraine traditionally wear their wedding rings on the right hand. Catholic people in the Netherlands wear their wedding rings on the left, all others on the right, while in Austria, Catholic people wear the wedding bands on the right.There are also some tradition that Jewish women often wear their wedding bands on the right hand during ceremony, but they change their wedding rings to the left hand after the ceremony. In Vietnam, due to Western influence they exchange wedding bands between the bride and groom, but still include giving jewelry to the bride while , Catholic Vietnamese families are known to exchange wedding bands at a separate church ceremony. For other countries, like India and Belgium, it depends on region of the country. An Iron Bangle or "loha" is worn by women in eastern parts of India, such as West Bengal while in parts of India - a toe-rings "Bichiya" are worn instead of wedding rings on a finger - and increasingly worn along with finger wedding bands. For more modern people, wearing the others' wedding rings on a chain around the neck instead of the ring finger as more of a social statement of being married.

Wedding Ring Materials
Due to it's durability the most common material of wedding rings is metal such as gold, platinum, titanium, tungsten, nickel silver, and stainless steel. In old time rings are made from hemp, wood, bone. They set the metal ring usually with diamonds or other precious stones or gems.

Style of the Wedding Ring
Russian wedding bands typically consisted of 3 interlocking bands - gold, white gold and rose. While In French speaking countries, , wedding rings often consisted of 3 interwoven rings . It represents the virtues of faith, hope and love. Anatolian (Turkey) and Greek wore puzzle rings. They set this kind of ring on interlocking metal bands that arrange in a specific order to form a single ring. Their fidelity of each other may have questioned, if the spouse came home and found the ring in a different arrangement.

Celtic wedding rings are often use Claddagh" design  which symbolizes fidelity. Sometimes it have been engraved or embossed with a Celtic knot design to symbolize oneness and continuity. Typically.two rings (engagement ring, and a plain wedding band) are worn on the same finger. A gift of an eternity ring is given, (usually a three ring combination) after first anniversary or child. This tradition is especially observed in the UK. In whatever culture, groom and the bride exchange rings as a vow of everlasting love and commitment to our partner to walk down life's journey together, to stay true to one another, to experience the new and exciting facets of companionship and physical union.