Cleaning your wedding ring

What guidelines exist for cleaning a wedding ring?

Gold and platinum are durable metals and will resist being damaged by most chemicals.

Diamonds like being cleaned in any household cleaners - most window cleaners and will do fine. If you can take the smell, adding a dash of ammonia to some dishwashing liquid is an option that will work well.

Where wedding rings come from

The question of where wedding rings come from is virtually unanswerable, but we have found a viable answer. Whether or not it is correct, it certainly is interesting.

In ancient Rome, it was believed that the ring finger actually was the only finger with a vein that flowed directly to the heart. The ring was worn then as it is today as a symbol of love with a direct connection to the wearers heart.

Male Wedding Bands Note

Here's an interesting piece of information I came accross. Wedding bands have been worn for centuries by grooms, but only recently did the tradition become widely in use.

Although european grooms have a much longer history of wearing the rings, it was American grooms that brought the tradition to its current position as a wedding standard.

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