Which hand do you wear your wedding ring on? As we all know, according to the Church, we should wear it on our right hand. However, in the US, this can really confuse people. How do you and your spouse handle the situation?
As for my husband and I, we wear the ring on the right hand when we are in Russia, but when we are living in the US, we switch it to the left so it is clear to people that we are taken 
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Well, it's a non-issue for us since my wife and I stopped wearing our rings around ten years ago (we've been married 17 years). This was according to the practice of our pre-conversion-to-Orthodoxy sect, and we became so accustomed to being ringless that we never put them back on again. Seemed odd to see gold flashing on our hands.
A couple months ago I waxed nostalgic though and got out our rings. They were rather nice antique ones that had never been worn before we bought them, but my ring wasn't even close to fitting anymore. Ah well....
If anyone's seen the movie "Signs" there's a scene where Mel Gibson takes the children into a pizza place and as they're going in, there's a sign next door that says "Newtown Jewelers". That's where we bought our rings. My wife and I met and started dating 22 years ago when I moved in across the street from her family (she was 15, I was 17), just a few blocks from where the "town" scenes of that movie were filmed. Must have been seeing the film that made me take the rings out again...
Anyway, I guess this wasn't much help 
-John
P.S. Come to think of it, I do remember switching hands at times, years ago, but this was because the ring-on-the-left interfered with my guitar playing
My husband and I wear ours on the right hand european style. Most Americans are exposed enough to know by the look of your rings that you are married. I view it as that is the hand where the ring was placed during the wedding ceremony and that's where it stays. Technically Americans marry with the ring on the right and afterwards change it to the left....silly people.
My wife and I wear it on the left hand. Simply because that is the custom in the west. We were married in the GOA.
LIUDMILLA wrote:Technically Americans marry with the ring on the right and afterwards change it to the left....silly people.
What? Not in the America I live in. I have never heard of anyone doing this.
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