Pre-Wedding Customs
The Wedding Ring
There are customs which state that the wedding ring is the last present in a series, which also includes the engagement ring amongst others.
Jewellers pushed this custom to the extreme by setting a trend of the “ring-gifts series”: you give your beloved one the first ring to let her know that your intentions are serious, then you give her the engagement ring, then the marriage ring, then the eternity ring, which symbolizes your solid and longlasting marriage, sometimes given after the birth of a first child, then a trilogy ring, usually formed by three diamonds, representing the past, present and future of a relationship. Not to mention the Silver Wedding Ring (given at the 25th celebration of the marriage) and the Golden Wedding Ring (given at the 50th celebration).
In Europe, people use to engrave the name of the spouse and the marriage date on the inside surface of wedding rings, thus strengthening their symbolism.
At Eastern Orthodox and Eastern Catholic Christians, the tradition of exchanging the wedding rings has been replaced with the placing of crowns on the head of the bride and groom, and their partaking three times of the “common cup”.
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