"With this ring, I thee wed."
DiscountJewels.net offer a Guide to Choosing your Wedding Ring
Your choice of wedding ring is very personal. DiscountJewels.net & Celtic Jeweler
have put together information to help you make your choice easier.
Handmade Wedding Rings
DiscountJewels.net guarantees that all rings are handmade by highly skilled jewelry
craftsmen. Each ring is hand finished paying particular attention to quality. A
senior craftsman with at least 10 years experience checks each ring before it is
delivered to you. The quality of our wedding rings is far superior to the standard
wedding bands most of which are mass-produced.
Choosing Your Wedding Band
Your choice is very personal to you and provide a very wide selection of different
styles, finishes, sizes and material - yellow gold, white gold, two tone and platinum.
The Celtic Jeweler separates their wedding ring collection into 5 different categories
based on style and material.
DiscountJewels.net can help you choose matching wedding bands. Perhaps the groom
would prefer a wider band and the bride a narrower band, perhaps you like the Claddagh
design and he likes the Celtic design the choice is entirely yours.
Claddagh Wedding Bands
DiscountJewels.net offer Claddagh Wedding Bands in yellow gold, white gold, and
two-tone (mix of yellow and white gold). The Claddagh ring was the traditional wedding
ring worn in Ireland since the 1600's.
The heart symbolizes love, the hands friendship and the crown loyalty.
Celtic Wedding Bands
These bands, from DiscountJewels.net, are available in yellow gold, white gold,
two-tone and platinum.
They incorporate various designs from the interlacing Celtic knotwork, the Celtic
Spiral, and the Trinity knot.
Widths of Wedding Bands Wedding bands, ordered through DiscountJewels.net, vary
in width from 5mm up to 11mm. Many grooms prefer the wider band 7mm and above. Brides
choose a range of widths between 4 – 7mm. The choice is entirely personal. The most
important thing is to choose a ring that will please you for the rest of your life.
DiscountJewels.net offers a
Brief History of the Wedding Ring
The wedding ring, that most famous and instantly recognizable symbol of the joining
of a man and a woman as husband and wife, has a long history. The circular band,
dating as far back to the ancient Egyptians, was seen as a representation of eternity
and a love that has neither a beginning nor an end. The hole in the center of the
ring is not just space either; it is important in its own right as the symbol of
the gateway, or door; leading to things and events both known and unknown.
The actual ceremonial exchange of bands however stemmed from the Roman Empire where
the giving of a band was denoted as a public promise that the marriage contract
undertaken between a man and a woman would be honored. It was from here that this
tradition filtered from to take root in Christian society making the swapping of
bands an essential part of the marriage service.
They wore it like we do today, on the fourth finger of the left hand, because of
a belief that the vein of that finger directly traveled from the heart. The Greeks
took up this legend after conquering Egypt under the generalship of Alexander the
Great in 332 B.C. and from them passed onto the Romans, who called this the "vena
amoris", which is Latin for "the vein of love".
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manufacturer of Celtic Jewelry.
DiscountJewels.net guarantee the quality of this merchandise.
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