Bold designs in gold and platinum add importance and distinction to small diamonds - vintage engagement rings. Hearts were popular motifs for engagement and wedding rings during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Such rings often combined rubies (signifying love) and diamonds (signifying eternity). Wedding bands engraved with orange blossoms and wreaths were particularly popular during the 1920s and 30s. The tradition behind the motif dates back to the Crusaders, who would place a wreath of orange blossoms on the bride's head as a blessing. Find vintage engagement ring.
Diamonds in the top color grades are quite a bit more expensive than lower grades. Get vintage engagement rings. Wordl War II also saw the "revival" of the double-ring wedding ceremony, an old European custom, in which the groom (as well as the bride) receives a wedding band - its popularity continues today. The ancient Romans exchanged circular bands of iron as proof of a marriage contract - gold began to be used for these rings in the second century A. D. The tradition of wearing the wedding band on the fourth finger of the left hand stems from a Greek belief that a certain vein in that finger, the vena amoris, runs directly to the heart. Medieval wedding rings were often set with colored gemstones, because of the symbolism of the colors. The first known recorded account of a diamond betrothal ring is from 1477 - it was presented by Archduke Maximilian of Austria to his beloved Mary of Burgundy. The smallest betrothal ring on record was given to two year old Princess Mary, daughter of Henry VIII, on the event of her engagement to the infant Dauphin of France, son of King Francis I, in 1518.
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