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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
My mother didn't have an engagement ring until she had one made a few years ago. During their engagement, such as it was, she borrowed Gram's.
Yet another reason I'm irked that my least-loved cousin has the thing now.
But, anyhow.
To my surprise, I discovered that much of central Europe wears wedding rings on the right hand.
I know that if you're Orthodox (Christian, that is), that's the usual place. At least if you're Russian.
Our friends from Germany (and who now live in Holland) wear theirs on their right hands (and I seem to recall learning this was customary, from them).
Rings: I prefer emeralds, rubies or garnets. I like color. That said, I do own my grandmother's evening ring, which is ornate white gold with teeny diamonds in it. The diamonds came from her first wedding band, and when Grandpa bought her a new wedding ring for an anniversary, she used the diamonds from the first one to go in the evening ring.
It kind looks like a bow/ribbon thing, and nothing I would choose myself, but it is pretty and more importantly, it was my grandma's. The band is very thin from many years of wearing, and it split. I had it repaired, but the welding split again, and it needs to be fixed before I can wear it again.
When my mom said she was going to box my ears, she meant a light cuff/open-handed thwap to the ear/side of the head. Not the eardrum thing.
The problem I've had with kneeing a guy in the nuts it's (a) I'm short (b) this affects my aim and I knee their thigh (not nearly as effective) and (c) I just haven't had that much practice at it.
It's is wrong that I feel cheated, in that I've only kneed two guys in the nuts, and missed on one?
A friend told me that in Germany an engagement ring is a plain band worn on the left hand. At the ceremony it's switched to the right hand and becomes the wedding ring.
I don't know if my mother has an actual wedding band or not. I know growing up that what I thought was her wedding ring is what I found out to be described as an engagement ring. I do know my cousin is the first male on either side of the family to wear a wedding ring.
The males on both sides of my family (myself included) don't wear jewelry at all, so seeing my cousin with the wedding band always seems odd to me.
As far as men and wedding rings, I think its fairly recent -- at least it being "standard" is. I remember wedding announcements specifying "it was a double ring ceremony" into the eighties at least.
I recently saw one of the late-night B&W reruns of "What's My Line" (the insomniac's refuge at 2:30 am is Game Show Network) where the person whose profession they were guessing was "wedding ring maker," and when one of the male panelists asked the contestant if he would use the product, his response led me to believe that men wearing wedding rings was just starting to become more widespread at that time (the late '50s).
My parents got married in 1959 and my dad has always worn a wedding band. His father, however, I don't think did. I always chalked that up to the fact that he was a farmer and jewelry + machinery is often a bad combination.
I've been without internet for two weeks. I didn't realise how much I missed it until I got back on. I'm almost tempted to waste class and just surf lj.
Love the new Natter title. I think it's my favorite one yet.