European Wedding Ring Hand

The shank is the bottom portion of the ring.

European wedding ring hand. CC0 10 From the 3 rd and 4 th centuries CE onwards gold rings became more luxurious in style flaunting the givers wealth. Stemming from a Tudor belief from the 16th-century the left-handed ring finger was believed to be connected to the heart by a vein. 2102007 I sometimes see some European girls wear diamond rings on their left ring finger but after some conversation I find out they are not married.

In addition certain lifestyle factors and symbolic meanings may make it more appropriate to wear a wedding ring on the opposite hand. The bezel setting by Brian Gavin featured above is designed with a euro-shank which is more formally known as a European Shank. Its still completely up to individual choice though on which hands you want the rings some people wear both rings on the same hand.

Today wedding rings are most commonly worn on the fourth finger of the left hand. 1012020 Though wedding rings arent typically worn in Muslim cultures if you live in Jordan you may wear it on the right hand. Traditionally the ring finger on the left hand has always been the location for a wedding band.

A plain wedding band is generally all a man needs to wear. The conservative Christians and Jews in Eastern European countries also wear the wedding ring on the right ring finger. Apparently they never heard the story about the vein running from the finger to the heart.

After the wedding women usually wear it on the ring finger of the same hand. History According to the Baylor University Medical Center website classical Greek and Roman culture implied that the left side was sinister the word left comes from the Latin sinestra meaning sinister. In some places brides and grooms wear wedding rings on the right hand instead.

Norway Denmark Austria Poland Bulgaria Russia Portugal Spain and Belgium in some territories Georgia Serbia Ukraine Greece Latvia Hungary Colombia Cuba Peru Venezuela. By wearing the wedding ring on the fourth left finger of the left hand the couples symbolize their undying love for each other. In many countries the ring finger of the right hand is where the wedding ring goes for both men and women.