Knotted Wedding Rings

When a special event comes up in your life you are more or less tempted to confer it the importance that draws the event in the welcoming arms of memories. Such an event is definitely the wedding when the couples in a communion of thoughts and mutual feelings attempt to find the original or the uncommon prevail the wedding ceremony. So couples can see or imagine a wedding event in as many ways possible as their personality, education, tradition, culture allow them to.

Maybe the most important and primarily thought of detail is the wedding rings. These rings are utterly special as they bear within themselves the symbol of love combined with beliefs and vows.

Apart from being special in design the knotted wedding rings carry many symbols. Knot art comes from a nautical meaning which goes deep into the time of sailor's existence. Throughout the ages, sailors, due to their job, were forced to part from their beloved ones, sometimes for years. Because of this their mind was often wandering back home where their women were waiting for their return. On board of the ships they started using braids and knotted lines to make jewelry for the beloved ones left behind.

The ancient Celtic craftsman of knotting brought in an inspirational technique to create knotted wedding rings as a symbol of romance of a couple joined in a marriage, intertwined, inseparable, side by side. So, one by one, the Celtic knots are used in the art of jewelry, the most popular are the Eternity Celtic knot - to symbolize the never-ending cycle of life; the Shield Celtic knot - for protection; the Trinity knot - used by Christians as the symbol of Father, Son & Holy Spirit; the Sailor knot - known as the lover's knot.

Another famous kind of Celtic art is the know work interlace, which is composed of strands of woven strips that bend and weave amongst themselves. The Trinity knot, which has 3 outer points or petals, is known to be quite often used in this interlace.

Because of its intricate symbolism, the Celtic weave ring has become the most popular Irish wedding ring. It is the reflection of the two lives coming to each other and the sacredness of that journey.

But whether you are part of Irish heritage or not, the knotted wedding rings make the object of an homage and respect paid to the Celtic roots along with your marriage and the symbols it carries. The knot represented and will represent for ever the intertwining of the love, friendship, lives and commitment of two people.