Wedding Poem: The Legend of the Wedding Ring

The wedding ring is a ring that binds two hearts together in an eternal promise to love each other forever.

The circle has always had significance from ancient cultures to the present as a symbol of wholeness and perfection. Its endlessness is the perfect symbol of oneness and unity - no beginning, no end. The following wedding poem tells of the legend of the wedding ring.

In a far off country many centuries ago,
A kind young king was married
to a princess he loved.

Together they lived happily
Until they learned one day
that duties were to force
The king to journey far away.

One night, before he left,
He tossed some pebbles into a moonlit pool
On the palace grounds
As he sat thinking of his lovely Queen.

Something wonderful occurred to him
As the lovely ripples widened,
From where the little pebbles had fallen.

The next day,
Remembering the glistening circles he had seen,
He had a gold ring made
To fit the finger of his Queen.

“There is no ending or beginning
To the circle of this band”,
The King said as he slipped it on her finger,
“And that is why I have chosen this golden ring
To be a pledge to you -
My love will last through all eternity.”

And so, since that time,
A golden ring has been a symbol
Of the beauty of devotion
And the beauty of the endlessness of love.

~Author Unknown~

The habit of wearing the wedding ring on the fourth finger of the left hand is based upon a Grecian fable that the artery from that finger, which was believed to be the vena amoris - also known as the vein of love - ran from that finger directly to the heart.

Upon presenting the wedding ring to your groom or bride, lines from the Legend of the Wedding Ring are a romantic way of making the moment even more meaningful:

“There is no ending or beginning
To the circle of this band,
And that is why I have chosen this golden ring
To be a pledge to you -
My love will last through all eternity.”