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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