With This Ring...

Exchanging rings and vows are traditional in weddings. It's a special part of the ceremony. While some couples prefer to write their own special vows, some of them prefer classic ones. Here are some examples for the classic vows and some religious ones.

Photograph source:

http://www.raeleytham.net/tag/sandestin-grand-hotel/

Articles about Ring

There are some articles that I found about rings in a matter of history, culture and society, click for full texts:

Some Famous Rings by M.J. Onahan

Rings with a Story by Arthur Anderson

The Wedding Ring by Edward J. Wood

The E-Book of Edward James Wood that article appears: The Wedding Day in All Ages and Countries

The Wedding Ring and Human Behavior: Current Research and Future Directions by Dario Maestripieri

Ancient Rings

Catalogue of a collection of ancient rings. Creator: Seymour de Ricci (1881-1942)

There are some websites which you can see a collection of ancient jewellery and rings and buy them. Some of them consist only one material, and some of them have really good craftmanship with clean surface and transfixed stones/gems (which are really expensive in that case).

What I realise after an examination of ancient rings is although the tools for the workmanship has changed and developed, the most famous and the most worn models are the same since almost the beginning. Even after the Revolution of Industry and mass production. That means physical appearence of rings has reached the maturity level very early in the ancient times. Maybe it's because the production of rings hasn't transformed completely into mechanized. The process still requires handiwork.

Here are some examples of the collections:

Click images for going to websites

Photograph source:

http://library.doaks.org/exhibitions/before_the_blisses/items/show/20

Patents

Some examples of patents of rings:
Click names under the images for pdfs of the patents

Kinsley, 1934

Granat, 1944

Schaeffer, 1952

Arakaki, 1979

Ambar, 2002

Ambar, 2002

Ring in Art

Matthew Joseph Peak - The Ring

Edmund Charles Tarbell - The Turqouise Ring 1894

John William Godward - The Ring 1898

John William Godward - The Engagement Ring 1891

Michael Frederick Halliday - Measure for the Wedding Ring

John Shirley Fox - The Engagament Ring 1898

Henry Woods - La Promessa Sposa 1890

References:

http://sanguinfineart.com/gallery/editions/art-editions/ring

http://goldenagepaintings.blogspot.it/2010/02/henry-woods-la-promessa-sposa.html
http://goldenagepaintings.blogspot.it/2009/08/john-william-godward-engagement-ring.html
http://goldenagepaintings.blogspot.it/2009/02/john-shirley-fox-engagement-ring.html
http://goldenagepaintings.blogspot.it/2008/08/michael-frederick-halliday.html

http://www.canvaz.com/gallery/22778.htm#sthash.pval0XJj.dpbs

http://www.encore-editions.com/edmund-charles-tarbell-the-turquoise-ring-1894-approximate-original-size-30x25

Ring finger

There are several theories about the name of the "ring finger". In the most of the world, marriage rings are wore on left hands' ring finger. This is about an old belief that finger is directly connected to the heart. Another ancient belief says that fourth finger of the left hand is "magical".