Wedding ring

Wedding vows are one of the most significant aspects of a wedding. Although traditions and customs vary from religion to religion, vows are often exchanged during wedding ceremonies to unite husband and wife. Today, some go the traditional route, a portion of couples opt to write their own and others combine traditional vows with words of their own. No matter what option is selected, tradition always seems to be the template and maintains a strong presence in the majority of weddings. Most are…

Marriage is viewed differently within other cultures. Some believe that the women is inferior to their husband’s, while other culture fight for equality within a marriage. This paper will discuss the wedding traditions and spousal roles within the Hindu, Jewish, and Buddhist community. There are similarities and differences between the three cultures. The Jewish follow the guidelines from the Bible where it states it not good for man to be alone and should have a help mate opposite of him. The…

due to her having no quality of life during her last month she was alive. My mother had a special place in her heart for me as a result of myself being her one and only daughter, and so for remembrance of her, my mother gave me a wedding set that included her wedding rings, dress, and beading to go along with the dress. My grandmother, who lived with us during the period of my mother’s sickness, gave the gift to me once everything in my our house was sorted out…

for their wedding. It depends on some families that they would do the engagement ceremony first or skip through to the wedding ceremony. An engagement ceremony is held at the bride’s home and there will be elders, monks in the attendance. It is a small ceremony that shows those two is now become one couple and they wear an engagement ring to clarify that they have someone in their heart already. Moreover, wedding is a large celebrations that lasting for three days. Although the wedding process…

CHANGES IN WEDDING ATTIRE OF A BRIDE AND GROOM IN RAJASTHAN Mesmerizing sound of the shehnai in background, folk musician playing and dancing on amusing Rajasthani songs, delicate women clad in bright and colorful ‘poshaks’ with extravagant jewelry and bunch of tall tough men wearing bandh gala and breeches wearing graceful saafas in an outstanding environment of old palaces and forts- yes this is what a Rajasthani wedding is all about- magnificent ,large, colorful and vibrant . Indian weddings…

weeks. Actually I planned for weeks while he just agreed to every option that I presented and made it even harder for me to decide. On top of that, we had to figure out where we were going live, and if we were going to buy a house or rent something. Wedding planning was a very stressful time. We finally made all the decisions though, and we started getting everything together and getting ready. The last week before was really crazy. We had so much work to do and so little time. God was with us…

What made you get into jewelry design and fashion? Two days before my wedding I inherited my great-grandmother turn of the century pearl and diamond ring, it was the most beautiful thing I have ever seen in my life, and when I ended up inheriting and it was the most amazing gift I have ever been given. A lot of her personal tangible items were sold at Doyle’s when…

I learned that in Japan a travel agency offers to arrange self marriage ceremonies, and in California, two jewelers, Jeffrey Levin and Bonnie Powers who have a business called “I Married Me,” offer something called the Self-Wedding In-A-Box kit. Mr. Levin and Ms. Powers first heard of the practice from a friend who had performed ceremonies in the desert. "She had been doing it at Burning Man," Mr. Levin said. She told them self-marriage ceremonies had sprung up there in the late 1990s, but she…

In both Tim Burton’s Edward Scissorhands (1990) and Corpse Bride (2005), the characters were relatively ‘different’ from those that they were surrounded by, therefore making them strange and considerably odd in the eyes of people they came in contact with- there was sympathy, pity, indifference, sacrifice, attraction, jealously, repulsion, understanding, fear, and prejudice surrounding both these characters as they discovered the real world. Both films are extremely fairytale-like, which…

Marriage, what everyone used to assume is the the turning point of one’s life, has now become the not so common fantasies girls have. People’s perspectives on marriage and traditional family value have changed a lot. Dorian Solot, the author of “On Not Saying ‘I Do’”, explains her concerns and thoughts on the concept of not getting married for her whole life in her article. She argues that marriage is just what the society uses to judge a person’s status, not what this word used to stand for,…