GUIDE TO CHOOSING YOUR WEDDING RING
"With this ring, I thee wed."
Your choice of wedding ring is very personal. We have put together this information to help you make your choice easier. If you have any questions at all please
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Handmade Wedding Rings
All our 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 we deliver it to you. The quality of our wedding rings is far superior to the standard wedding bands most of which are now mass produced in Asia.
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. We have put our wedding ring collection into 5 different categories based on style and material.
You can choose matching wedding bands or if you prefer under "Related Product" for each ring we have listed other rings with the same design but with different finishes. 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
We have Claddagh Wedding Bands available 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
We have categorized these bands by their material, yellow gold, white gold and two-tone and platinum.
They incorporate various designs from the interlacing Celtic knowtwork, the Celtic Spiral, and the Trinity knot. Each of these designs is explained in more detail for each ring.
Widths of Wedding Bands
Our wedding bands vary in width from 5mm up to 11mm and many grooms prefer the wider band 7mm and above (width of standard plain wedding band is 4mm). While some brides do choose matching wedding band of the same width, a lot of brides choose wedding bands up to 7mm aswell. Again the choice is entirely yours and the most important thing it is to choose a ring that will please you for the rest of your life.
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 honoured. 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".
