The History of Wedding & Engagement Rings

Love is in the air this week! In this week's episode, Natalie explains the history of how engagement and wedding rings started, and how the symbol of love made its journey from ancient Egypt to today's most anticipated answer - "I Do."
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[@DarthXerion]

My engagement ring belonged to my great great grandmother. It has a clear stone with an antique mine cut. But it isn't a diamond! I love it and the story behind it.

[@roleplaychic7081]

Guys, if you want to show how much you care with an engagement ring, get a ring of their birthstone. It's much more thoughtful than a diamond. Unless of course their birthstone IS diamond.

[@freddiestranger9783]

Who Cares

[@thekpopaddict_slytherin]

@@freddiestranger9783 some people do

[@debtansey89]

Prince Albert gave Queen Victoria a diamond engagement ring. She also wore white on her wedding day, which made both these items popular for brides.

[@ninjahombrepalito1721]

In some places in, around 3,000 B.C., men gave their brides bracelets and a nose ring (usually the bracelets and nose ring were of gold). In early Roman Empire times (maybe not that early), in some places men gave their wives a necklace, with, well, like 800 dollars worth of decoration (equivalent currency in that time). And interestingly, lots of people today's days wear their rings on a necklace instead of their finger. Which, I think a necklace is much better. Because, it doesn't get in the way when doing things with your hands, it doesn't make your finger thin and make you have to take the ring off every once in a while to wash your finger.

[@Asa-me2fe]

Exactly what I was looking for! Thank you 🙏🏻

[@nateslovebug]

My wedding ring is a sapphire, actually. 💙

[@copeharder7554]

You aint gonna have that ring for long neither your life

[@garethbaus5471]

@@copeharder7554 your meaning is unclear.

[@christophermartinez7402]

I love this channel

[@taneloru3466]

Thanks for yelling at us. :D

[@littleprince8913]

It's always from Egypt, birthplace of religion, the occult, philosophy and science, and art

[@b8bydoll252]

Always!. Every single thing in America is Egyptology, Greek Methodology, or Roman traditions. Smh.

[@dantemiller7193]

My engagement ring is an alexandrite bc it's my birth stone and favorite stone. I hope I can pass it down generations to come 😁. I never thought of my self as a ring person but now I can see my self with out it.

[@Happy_HIbiscus]

Dude,this is cool 🙂♥️

[@mayurarun]

Cool....👌👌👌

[@hawkeyestegosaurus5680]

Really interesting stuff here, I had no idea it was such a modern notion to wear rings

[@dvdb304]

Have you noticed that ice sometimes has those air tubes inside it just like some stones with the cats eye effect, I speculate that ice can maybe have the same effect. I'm not a geologist but could you see if that is true?

[@drewskifrosty5955]

No, can't happen. Cats eye effect is caused by Rutile inclusions which ice would never have.

[@callalily0004]

I have a really pretty engagement ring, it's in the shape of a heart :3

[@thatfishgirl]

Sources on information provided would have been awesome.

[@spiceroy5388]

Would you unbox Rutile? TiO2? (small 2, not large)

[@FuzBrain]

Does anyone know why they're still so popular? There are so many cooler rocks out there.

[@melisacristina5954]

They're shinny

[@melisacristina5954]

We like shinny things 😂

[@FuzBrain]

That's pretty valid I guess

[@melisacristina5954]

I prefer pearls, but most women prefer diamonds because they're shinny 😂 and also because they were very mediatized when wedding ring adds appeared on Tv

[@FuzBrain]

Oh I know popular media still likes to use diamonds as the go to wedding gem in movies and shows, but personally I don’t get it? They’re not the only shiny gem, they’re not really even the shiniest, they’re super overpriced, and use exploitative practices (like child labor) to get them if you don’t find a company that specifically doesn’t, they feel super impersonal imo. It’s just, eh for me? I actually don’t know that many women, including me, irl that prefer diamonds. Just feels like a weird formality now

[@DeannaJacksonDJsDelectables]

Diamonds are stupidly overpriced and a waste of money.

[@kharjai5433]

Yep. It is culturally accepted that our society values a shiny rock more than the lives of everyday people.

[@lorekeeperxvii2408]

Don't say it Edit: great episode had no idea the symbolism for the ring finger came from Egypt P.S. flapjacks (tried to be cool and say the word in Spanish turns out there the same word in both languages, rip me and my dumb humor)

[@jamesrobillardjr]

I just wish diamonds cost less.

[@JohnSmith-xs1ml]

Search for the phrase "Diamonds are intrinsically worthless". Build your case on that next time you go to a jewelry store.

[@nateslovebug]

Look at created diamonds. They are larger, clearer, purer, and cheaper than diamonds out of the ground. You can also rest easier knowing there is no chance this was pulled from the ground by a dying child.

[@ninjahombrepalito1721]

Like Grade A Under A says, don't get diamond, get Moissanite.

[@emmabrook9691]

2:35 wedding rings were banned or... band?

[@faramund9865]

HA

[@kristinelizabethfontenotmy7062]

I can't wait to get married

[@korvatusklok4059]

I really think it should be the other way. If you're single and looking you wear a ring. If you're too young, married, or not looking you don't wear a ring. Clears up allot embarrassment.

[@wanpakudanpu]

I wanna know which goofball jewelry company executive came up with the "rule" that people should spend two months salary on a diamond ring... and people actually accepted this!

[@stephanieegland9769]

wanpakudanpu this was also DeBeers. Another marketing campaign to jack up the price of one of the most common gemstones on the planet.

[@rch3290]

2:47 3:40 4:17 4:40 4:50

[@Daimyo7]

Silver ring with aquamarine side stones to a Russian chromium diopside. Silver band is in Italian wheat style

[@user-kn1hc5nn1k]

My mom her wedding ring doesn’t have diamond, it’s not even a something like a diamond and it’s green not a emerald and she also have a bracelet that is made of it and she says the bracelet if she wears it she gets like protected or something

[@freddiestranger9783]

Wow. She is Super Gorgeous

[@mayurarun]

And she is so beautiful 😍

[@1337Unlucky]

indeed but she speaks like the blond girl a person had in highschool

[@mayurarun]

Alex different people different opinions.. and forgot to mention that she is smart so everything else doesn't matter..

[@1337Unlucky]

agree

[@thekpopaddict_slytherin]

@@1337Unlucky ikr

[@VerbiGereando]

You shout a lot, nice video anyway

[@michaelmell18]

If my future husband got me a wedding ring I would like it to be a ruby my birthstone

[@Lando9673]

Egypt is the capitol of gem history.🤣🤣🇪🇬🇪🇬🇪🇬🇪🇬🇪🇬🇪🇬🇪🇬🇪🇬🇪🇬💎💎💎💎💎

[@vansh6038]

No before 18th century only in India diamond were founded but after they founded in Africa and Brazil

[@Lando9673]

@@vansh6038 oh that's cool. I may have posted this late at night. Anyway have a good day ☺️

[@vansh6038]

Thanks have good day ❤️ Love egypt from India ❤️

[@travisfuller9393]

My South African chommies knowing how to hustle dem diamonds...

[@bushannysashwilliams9399]

Did Adam and eve have wedding rings

[@winterxmm3881]

They never had wedding rings because that wasn't a thing at the time they lived in. But they were married and were one flesh like two people are in a marriage.

[@bushannysashwilliams9399]

@@winterxmm3881 My point is God has not changed nor does he care about the times. He remains the same.

[@winterxmm3881]

@@bushannysashwilliams9399 that's true but generations change, people change and of course wedding rings weren't even a thing around that time because it was way before actually wedding rings we're made. And it's just like with the food law in the old Testament ( this is unrelated to wedding rings btw) people say that God never changes which is 100% true but we as Christains don't even have to stick with the food laws or any of the other laws because one reason is it was specifically given to the Jewish people at that specific place and time and Jesus Fullfilled the law so if we believe and have faith in him(and repent) we are reconciled or justified through him. So we don't have even carry on with the law because also God's law is already written in our hearts, God's spirit leds us what to do. ( I know that it was something completely unrelated to wedding rings but I also wanted to make sure that you don't think we should still keep the law as well since you said God never changes and that's a excuse many legalistic Christains would make, but at the same time I'm not calling legalistic because I don't know you personally)

[@thekpopaddict_slytherin]

no becuase that was wayyy before ancient egypt.

[@bushannysashwilliams9399]

@@winterxmm3881 1 Timothy2 v9. Church people that wear jewelry are going to hell.

[@faramund9865]

Rígsþula Stanza 23: Heim óku þá hanginluklu, geitakyrtlu, giftu Karli; Snör heitir sú, settisk und rifti; bjuggu hjón, bauga deildu, breiddu blæjur ok bú gerðu. Home did they bring | the bride for Karl, In goatskins clad, | and keys she bore; Snör was her name, | 'neath the veil she sat; A home they made ready, | and rings exchanged, The bed they decked, | and a dwelling made. This is from 12th century Scandinavia

[@katrinarelagomez3166]

Peter Pan gave Jane a thimble....OMG

[@christiantorrens7267]

Men’s has been wearing jewelry since the beginning of times then men’s stopped wearing jewelry for a while until the 20 century men’s started wearing jewelry again

[@weareorigin]

Some say the history of engagement rings was a promise to marry the woman. Since the woman was soiled by the man, if the man doesn't marry her, she keeps the ring at least. Not very romantic.

[@kagesong]

I initially proposed with a band of twine. Later my friend gave me a beautiful dark ruby to give to my (ex) fiance. The recipient has crushed my heart into a million pieces a few weeks ago..

[@bloom1209]

Me thinking diamonds rings were a myths since everyone ik wore the poems rings. Like literally

[@boobunn4151]

ok diamonds are a bit of a rip off and they can be a bit samey. but they are still very cool stones. place a big stone on your tongue and it's ability to transfer heat will make it feel like a piece of ice. equally due to it's carboniferous nature, a heated glowing hot diamond will combust in liquid oxygen dissolving into nothing but carbon dioxide. lets not forget we also have plenty of colored diamonds and i know none of you sniff at fancy color diamonds.

[@paulvictor7489]

ngl marriage being man buying the wife from the father, is like basically still a thing today in a lot of places.

[@matinajazmine]

Yes it's always Egypt which is Africa .we were ahead

[@user-kn1hc5nn1k]

I came from hellthyjunkfood

[@gems]

That's awesome! I love JP and Julia!

[@SpeakDaTruth7]

The wedding rings was not a commandment from the Most High (Yahweh) nor biblical. "True” it was the Egyptian and Roman culture. All paganism tradition. Correction….The first marital union was Adam and Eve. Genesis 2: 18-25 Learn not the ways of the heathen “Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them.” ‭‭Jeremiah‬ ‭10:2‬ ‭KJV‬‬ “And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, I am the LORD your God. After the doings of the land of Egypt, wherein ye dwelt, shall ye not do: and after the doings of the land of Canaan, whither I bring you, shall ye not do: neither shall ye walk in their ordinances. Ye shall do my judgments, and keep mine ordinances, to walk therein: I am the LORD your God. Ye shall therefore keep my statutes, and my judgments: which if a man do, he shall live in them: I am the LORD.” ‭‭Leviticus‬ ‭18:1-5‬ ‭KJV‬‬

[@thekpopaddict_slytherin]

Just a suggestion, the women talking is a bit idk nervous/wayy too exagertaded

[@RoxanneM-]

WHY SHOUT?!!!!! 🗣🗣🗣😬 What has happened to the country? STOP SHOUTING!!! USE YOUR MICROPHONE ! Vulgar.

[@harmonicarat]

That voice was too annoying. I had to stop 10 seconds in.