Wedding ring on the wrong hand

LegacyUser

Theres a girl at work who has what looks like wedding ring but its on her right hand? She doesn't have a ring on her left hand. What does this mean?

Zaph

Not really a PI so I'm moving this. Mods, feel free to move it back if you don't think it's for your forum.

hunnymonster

lots of nationalities wear their wedding rings on their right hands. some musicians as well. I'm sure there are lots of reasons. Equally, it could just be a ring she likes.

kmick

Most eastern europeans seem to wear it on the opposite to us.

DreamC

The girl could be married to an eastern European (if she is Irish herself) and her husband could ask her to wear it that way as over there the wedding ring on a left hand could mean that a woman is either divorced or widowed (i.e. she is free).

prinz

The wedding ring on the right hand also applies in Germany.

Tabnabs

And in Scandinavia, seems we are the odd ones out on the left hand rule.

tatli_lokma

lots of cultures wear the ring on the right hand. Muslims believe your left hand to be your 'dirty' hand as in olden days this hand would have been used for certain 'jobs' (lets leave it at that! :P). As a result many muslims wear their ring on their right hand. Having said that, as things become more blurred between cultures, many now wear on the left.

Others wear the ring on one hand as the engagement ring and then change it to the other hand once married.

Other cultures such as orthodox christians also wear on their right. In old roman times the left hand was the 'sinister' hand because the latin word for left is 'sinister' (thus the reason why the clergy forced kids in school to write with their right hand! :rolleyes:). This tradition has filtered through many eastern european countries.

The idea of the left hand is because the 3rd finger of the left hand is believed to lead directly to the heart.

sure does make checking out the hand for a wedding ring in a nightclub a bit more complicated! :P

Ginger Nut

Wats_da_ring wrote: »

Theres a girl at work who has what looks like wedding ring but its on her right hand? She doesn't have a ring on her left hand. What does this mean?

I do know the Greeks wear their wedding rings on the right hand - Has she any connections to them or maybe its a greek orthadox thingy

Clareman

I know a girl who was given her Grandmother's wedding ring and wore it on her right hand, but as has been mentioned, a lot of cultures use the right hand

Penny Dreadful

I have two gold bands that I wear on the third finger of my right hand. One has 5 small stones in it (genuine CZ:D) and the other is a white and yellow gold band that is pretty plain.
I'm not married, not even in a relationship any more but got these rings are birthday presents from my sisters at different stages of my life and wear them because they are nice. Never in a million years did I think anyone would think I was married by wearing them on my right hand.