💍 Did you know? The tradition of wearing a weddingring on the left hand's fourth finger dates back 1000+ years, stemming from the belief in the 'vena amoris' connecting the finger to the heart.
From Egypt, the use of rings is believed to have spread to the Greeks and the Etruscans, and thus to ancient Rome. Though the ancient Greeks exchanged rings as symbols of love, not of marriage.Roman ring used as a betrothal or wedding band during the third century A.D.
When it comes to the origins of the use of rings for engagements, all roads lead to Rome — or at least, so it would seem. Roman rings bearing clasped hands are usually understood as engagement rings, explains Karen Klaiber Hersch, a professor of Greek and Roman classics at Temple University. This clasped-hands symbol is a shared emblem between Greeks and Romans, lending some credence to the fact that there was interexchange between these peoples.to ancient cultures, says Klaiber Hersch, also the author of "The Roman Wedding: Ritual and Meaning in Antiquity." They indicated wealth and status, were worn by those in specific political roles, and were imbued with symbolic and religious significance.
“There's enough evidence to say that rings were given as a sign of a promise,” Klaiber Hersch says. The ring would be offered at an event known as theThese engagement rings — known as— may have changed over time, from the simple iron rings described by Pliny to those made of silver and gold. By around the third century AD, it was seemingly common practice to mark engagements with these more valuable materials.
Placing a ring on someone’s finger with the intent to marry is thus steeped in history. Of course, not every part of the tradition is ancient: The modern, diamond-encrusted engagement band is figured as the result
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