Do you know why Wedding Ring is worn on the Fourth Finger?

Here is some amazing stuff. Hope you will find this interesting.

Thumb represents your Parents
Second (Index) finger represents your Siblings
Middle finger represents your-Self
Fourth (Ring) finger represents your Life Partner
& the Last (Little) finger represents your children

Firstly, open your palms (face to face), bend the middle fingers and hold them together - back to back
Secondly, open and hold the remaining three fingers and the thumb - tip to tip
(As shown in the figure below):

Now, try to separate your thumbs (representing the parents)..., they will open, because your parents are not destined to live with you lifelong, and have to leave you sooner or later.

Please join your thumbs as before and separate your Index fingers (representing siblings)...., they will also open, because your brothers and sisters will have their own families and will have to lead their own separate lives.

Now join the Index fingers and separate your Little fingers (representing your children)...., they will open too, because the children also will get married and settle down on their own some day.

Finally, join your Little fingers, and try to separate your Ring fingers (representing your spouse).
You will be surprised to see that you just CANNOT....., because Husband & Wife have to remain together all their lives - through thick and thin!!

Please try this out.............

ISN'T THIS A LOVELY THEORY?

In 1958 when I was married, the Catholic Church believed the wedding ring represented the Holy Trinity. During the marriage ceremony the ring was placed on the top of the thumb on the left hand by the groom with the words, "In the name of the Father." He then removed it to the forefinger, saying: "In the name of the Son." Then to the middle finger, adding: "And of the Holy Ghost." Finally he left it, as now, on the fourth finger, with the closing word "Amen."

Dinu, I can't "see" the example you give, but I think the lesson is a good one.

That's neat, too, Kyjoy.

It's like this. Here is the picture - hope it comes okay.

kyjoy, thanks for sharing your experience.

Ah! Now I have it. I had trouble getting my hands to do that at first, too! :D

I thought it was such a lovely interpretation of an everyday event!

I think my main problem with the exercise was that I at first misread "bend the middle fingers and hook them together". Yes, now try THAT! ;)

How lovely. I also love the way to remember which ring comes first ... the engagement or wedding ring? I guess this is dumb, but I use to get confused since I received my engagement ring first. Then I found out that the wedding ring is first because it is closest to your heart. :-)

Correct, however, I've seen people use the wedding ring as a ring guard figuring the engagement ring usually has a larger stone. Technically what you are supposed to do is remove the engagement ring before the ceremony. The wedding ring is then place on a bare finger.

Wow, so by that tradition, the wedding ring is worn alone even after the wedding? I've noticed some women have on a plain wedding band, but never thought about it. My wedding ring is a wrap for my engagement ring; when I had the prongs repaired this year, I had them solder the two together since the little hook that held them in place had broken off years ago. Considering that's the first work I've had done on the ring in our 15-year marriage, I'm surprised I hadn't lost more than one tiny stone!

Kimberley, after the ceremony you can put your engagement ring back on. It's just supposed to be off during the ceremony so it's out of the way of the wedding band. Having said that, I forgot to take mine off (don't tell the wedding police!), so I switched them afterwards. (shrug..) One of those silly things that aren't really all that important in the end. :-)

Dinu, I loved the original post.. It is indeed a beautiful picture of marriage. :-)

Absolutely! I only meant sometimes I take mine off when gardening, etc and then can't remember which goes first. LOL I too just loved that sweet post, Dinu. :)

My daughter-in-law didn't and lost a two carat center stone. Fortunately it was insured.

Owwwww, kyjoy!!!

I'm getting married soon and I've never heard this before! Neat thing for folks at a reception, huh?

Congrats KY!!!

i used to work in a jewelry store, eons ago, and asked that once... i was told the wedding band goes on first, closest to the heart -- then you can put the engagement ring on after.

I sometimes move my engagement ring to my right hand.

but now, after 21 yrs, i have 4 rings that i swap about....

band, engagement, a 20th anniv wedding band and anniversary band diamonds.

tcs, interesting!

It is said that the traditon goes back 5000 years! Humourously, it is the engagement ring that starts the suffe'ring'! There is some more information that appeared in our local language paper. I'll try to put some of the points that are interesting in English and revert to this thread. Some translation work will be involved.

Dinu

I took piano lessons once upon a time and my teacher told me that you can't raise your ring finger because it has no muscle to raise it like the other muscles in your hand. It uses the muscles of your middle finger and your little finger to raise up. Trying laying your hand flat on something and raising your ring finger up and you will feel the other muscles working to do it. LIZ

Actually in Europe (immigrating to the US etc) the wedding ring was worn on the fourth finger of the left hand. This tradition reportedly dating to classical times was based on the belief that the fourth finger on the left hand contained the ‘vein of love’ and that this vein ran directly from the heart to that finger.