Egyptian Wedding Rings

Ancient Egyptian civilization has given to the world of archeology a lot of vestiges that revealed to the history of mankind aspects of a world that was covered in mystery and symbols depicted in the places found together with new archeological diggings. The symbols in antiquity were highly regarded as they revealed messages and a certain mystical side to the people that were in need of a higher authority to represent the unknown and unexplainable that occurred in their life.

The most common symbols are the “ankh” – representing the eternal life, the “eye of Horus” – to symbolize health and protection, the “scarab” – as symbol of spontaneous creation and closely associated with the sunrise, “shenu” – known in the art of jewelry as the ‘cartouche’, a drawing of a loop to contain names in Egyptian hieroglyphs and the encircling itself signifying the protection offered, the “lotus flower” – representing the symbol of the sun, of rebirth and creation.

/These symbols were found indeed as objects to populate the everyday space of ancient Egyptians but most of them were used only by the upper classes as being (in their conception) the most favored ones by their Gods and deities. If we go back to the history of wedding rings and the custom to exchange wedding rings during a wedding ceremony, we find this habit in the ancient Egypt using twisted reed to be placed on the finger signifying the wedding rings for a couple’s life time commitment.

Nowadays the artisans of jewelry have inserted in their jewel designs these symbols in order to offer a wider range of rings and wedding rings to match every couple’s personality and religious belief. Even if the wedding couple doesn’t not necessary belong to a Muslim religion, they can still choose these ancient symbols to be part of the design of their wedding bands. Plenty of the young couples of the world find the history of Egypt so fascinating and the symbols of their existence so full of meanings, that they often choose these representations as objects to adorn either their wrists or necks or fingers. Egyptian wedding rings are widely spread in the workshops of many jewelers, entire collections of Egyptian jewelry line display that note of mystical meanings buried in the ancient images of symbols.

The most popular Egyptian wedding ring is the Silver or Gold cartouche ring, the one to include Egyptian hieroglyphs of names or customized with dedications that young couples want to wear on their fourth finger of the left hand, the finger that is said to have the “vein of love” which pumps the blood to and from heart, the symbol of everlasting love existing in wedding couples who decide to seal their love with the vows of holy marriage.

Other popular Egyptian wedding rings may be found designed with beautiful semi-precious turquoise scarab handcrafted on gold ring, or having the famous eye of Ra engraved in the precious metal of a wedding band, all of then making the object of desire of many wedding couples in their hunting for that special ring, the one to hold the memory of the day for a life time committal, devotion, sharing and most of all of a deep, everlasting love.

Written by WeddingRings, date Sep 15, 2009 in Uncategorized |
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