Giving A Wedding Ring To Her

Among the ancient Hebrews the selection of a bride, always made by the parents of the lover, was followed by an espousal, which was confirmed by oaths and accompanied by presents.
These gifts were probably the origin of the gift of the ring. In the first meeting of the servant of Isaac and Rebekah, he seeks her favor by the present of a massive earring and two bracelets.
it was the custom for the bridegroom to place a ring upon the finger of the intended bride. It is not certain how early this custom began.The modern Jews still attach more moment to the breaking of glass, not as a bond of union, but a suggestion that the union is irrevocable. When damage is done to the crystal, it suggests of the frailty of life and a portent of the punishment of infidelity.It was said to have been discovered in the year 996, when it was given by a jeweler from Jerusalem to a lapidary of Clusium, who had been sent to Rome by the wife of a marquis of Etruria, to make purchases for her.
The jeweler told the lapidary of the preciousness of the relic, but he despised it, and kept it for several years among other articles of inferior value. There is no mention in the Bible of betrothal finger-rings, but, in the book of Genesis, a ring is mentioned as a token of fidelity or friendship.
where a church was built for it, and it still performed miracles, but they were trifling in comparison with its miraculous powers of multiplying itself. It existed in different churches in Europe at the same time, and each ring being as genuine as the others,These were frequently interchanged by the two in token of union and of domestic equality, the higher value of the ring of the husband marked his superiority.on the finger next to the small one. Tertullian speaks of them in his day. Isidore says that women wore only this ring, or not more than two at most. Some nuptial rings were of brass and some of copper. The plain circle was not the only form of wedding-ring, as some were carved in devices such as a key to signify the domestic authority of the wife. In the time of Pliny, an iron ring was sent as a pledge to the intended bride. it was paid the same honors by the devout.