Wedding ring box: what you need for perfect wedding

Wedding rings: for future spouses an exclusive service

Since ancient times, a ring was used to seal an important moment or a special event and that is why everything that nowadays concerns wedding rings and marriage rings presentation boxes takes on such great value. Little has changed. Even today, the exchange of marriage rings is a gesture full of solemnity and one of the most intense moments of the rite of marriage, be it religious or civil.

Weddings rings are the perfect symbol of love: an endless circle made of a precious material such as gold inside which the names of the spouses and the wedding date are engraved. Let's find out a little more about the origins, traditions and etiquette of wedding rings as well as all the ring holder tools available.

History and curiosity

The word faith derives from the Latin Fidem and means trust, an absolutely appropriate term to be given to rings that symbolize marriage which presupposes a mutual exchange of trust, love and respect. Marriage bands have an ancient history. The barbarians exchanged rings as a sign of a promise of marriage and loyalty.

In Roman times, the wedding rings, which were called vinculum, were made of iron and were worn only by men even if they were soon allowed to wear them also by women.

During the Middle Ages, women wove their own hair around the ring and one of the future groom's around the ring, they kept it with them for 9 days at heart level before exchanging it on their wedding day.

Starting from the 16th century, the wedding ring takes on the appearance and meaning that we attribute to it today: the rings wedding are forged in yellow gold, which has always been a symbol of eternity for the Catholic religion and inside them they begin to be seen. the first engravings with the name of the couple and the wedding date. The habit of wearing wedding band rings every day after the wedding by both spouses began around the 11th century.

Because it is worn on the left ring finger

The tradition of wedding rings worn on the left ring finger has two possible origins. 

The first concerns the Catholic religion according to which the celebrant with the first three fingers of his left hand indicates "In the name of the Father, of the Son and of the Holy Spirit" and on the fourth finger, the blessed one, the ring is inserted.

The second dates back to the ancient Egyptians who were the first to discover the existence of a vein, called the "vein of love", which connects the ring finger directly to the heart.

Traditions and etiquette of wedding rings

There are traditions and a specific etiquette for marriage and wedding ring holders, unwritten rules that it is preferable to respect to make the wedding day absolutely perfect. In fact, tradition has it that the faiths:

• they are chosen by mutual agreement between the spouses but that the groom (or a person very close to him) pays them are identical, of the same shape and the same color, demonstrating their mutual and equal commitment
• are in yellow gold, which in the Christian tradition represents eternity, although wedding etiquette has been very modernized from this point of view and often the spouses opt for white gold or platinum
• wearing a wedding ring before marriage brings bad luck; the only exception to the rule is the measurement of the ring in jewelry
• are carefully guarded by one of the groom's witnesses until the day of the wedding when he himself will carry the rings up to the altar on a wedding ring pillow; sometimes the people in charge are two children, preferably a boy and a girl
• are carried to the altar on soft wedding ring cushions which must be of the same fabric and color as the bride's dress
• contain an engraving inside, which shows the names of the spouses and the date of the wedding. The spouses can also decide to engrave a love dedication or a small sentence meaningful for both of them on the wedding rings (obviously remembering that the space available is limited).
   

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