Wedding Rings ( Archived) (56)

Can someone tell me where the custom of wearing wedding rings comes from?

What do they represent?

Are they important?

And for Muslims:
Is it true that the Muslim bride and grooms wear it on the right hand and not on the left hand?
Why?

Thanks for your answers.

Thanks

So the whole "Christian" ceremony of exchanging rings comes from barbaric pagans? Was that before Constantine decided to take up the Christian faith or after?

If it came after, I can understand why the impotance of the Christian ceremony.
If it came before, they'd have a problem justifying it, wouldn't they?

what a kick!

The first wedding was performed by Jesus Christ in Kanaan of Galilea Jerusalem.And also he performed his first miracle ,turn water to wine.

The wedding ring goes closest to your heart. Left hand.

The way I heard it was the you take off your engagment ring before the wedding ceremony and put it on the other hand. During the ceremony your new husband puts the wedding band on the ring finger of your left hand. Afterwards, the engagement ring is moved over and sits on the outside. The symbolism of this is that wedding ring sits closer to your heard. It's a fulfillment of love while the engagment ring is merely the promise.

I see women wearing it both ways and I think any arrangment is fine as long as it pleases the woman.

Is it true that the Muslim bride and grooms wear it on the right hand and not on the left hand?
Why?

Because they wipe themselves with the left hand and they only eat with the right hand.

Judaism, the oldest monoteistic faiths brought marriage before that the sudoma gummorah was on earth.

rings are good, they signify eternity

Thanks John.

Please, no preaching. I went to a Catholic school and I know the Bible just as well as you.

Define "good" please.
And tell me why eternity would be, hence by relevance, "good".

What do you think of this saying:
"I leave symbols to the symbol-minded."
~George Carlin~