Can't people get rings resized or coated? Shouldn't religious customs be more important than western society's cultural norms?
Question for married posters...
First, when I said....Technically Americans marry with the ring on the right and afterwards change it to the left.... I meant for example the catholics, who receive the ring on the right hand and then the couple switches to the left after the wedding...(at least at the last catholic wedding I went to). I've been trying to remember all those movies on TV and I believe they all do the right hand. I could be wrong, but I don't think so.
Secondly, to Julianna, yes you could get a ring re-sized (if you can afford it and if doesn't ruin the design on the ring); yes you could it coated (as long as you are not allergic to the coating) but if you are not married in your heart, wearing a ring will not do it for you. Also, some people can't wear a ring because of their occupations. My father never wore a ring, he worked with his hands. He almost lost a finger because the ring caught on something. It never stopped him from feeling that he was married.
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Justin Kissel
Julianna
Can't people get rings resized or coated?
In the right situation, yes 
Shouldn't religious customs be more important than western society's cultural norms?
It's part of the Orthodox tradition to follow society's cultural norms (cf 1 Pet. 2:13-17), so that's sort of an unfair question 
Hello all,
We wear our wedding rings on the right hand. I can't tell you how many times people have asked me why it is on that hand in the short time I have been married. And then I have to tell them the reason, which I think is that it has to do with the Right Hand of God being the hand of God's mercy and the Good Judgement (correct me if I am wrong; I don't want to be giving people the wrong information).
A friend of mine who is a New ager and daughter of a Wikka preistess recently told me that the the reason they wear the ring on the left hand in the west is because there is a vain that goes from the left ring finger to the heart, making it a deep symbol of love. whether this is true or not, I could hardly say, but being who she is and what her beleifs are I am always glad to be doing the opposite of what she says 
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It seemed a good contrast to me of Orthodox Marriage as opposed to the Western marriage, that is, that they base the marriage on romance when we base ours on the firm foundation of our Lord.
In Christ,
Nicholas (Savva)
Savva24 wrote:A friend of mine who is a New ager and daughter of a Wikka preistess recently told me that the the reason they wear the ring on the left hand in the west is because there is a vain that goes from the left ring finger to the heart, making it a deep symbol of love.
Sorry, the ''vain'' in the above sentence should of course be spelled ''vein''.
Nick
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Gregory2
I wear my ring on my right hand, my wife on her left. Initially, being in America, I had it on my left, then realized that it was kind of stupid -- why should I just "do what everyone else does" when during the marriage service it was placed on the right?
Interestingly, no one has ever asked me why it's on the right
Wedding Rings
Just curious about the wearing of wedding bands. My wife wears her silver band on the right hand and I, in obedience to her wish that I wear the jewelry, wear my gold band on the right hand as well. We do this because this is the way the items are disposed in the sacrament of Marriage, for which there are brilliant traditional and theological reasons. But I still see some Orthodox, even the very strict, who wear the wedding band on the left hand in the fashion of the pagans of old, Jews, and Catholics.
The Egyptians believed that in the ring finger of the left hand a nerve which connected to the heart was to be found. The power of the ring then was that it exerted some magic force on this nerve to keep the wearer true.
Which do you see/ do? Why?
Sincerely,
Joseph