Wedding rings

[Praxeas]

Originally Posted by ILG

I dunno about the ring/band thing. I dreamed of my wedding ring when I was a little girl and gazed longingly at my mothers. My husband and I bought rings and our pastor said he would not do a ring ceremony (although he did one for someone else a few years later). If you recall, my husband and I were basically told we needed to get married because we were living together and just joined the UPC. So, with no family present, we got married a few weeks later. We sold the rings we bought at a pawn shop two weeks after the wedding. I have a little band now. It's not the ring I dreamed of. Maybe someday, when we get our business built, I'll get one.

Yeah...of all the "proposal" scenes I have seen the woman's face really changes when she sees the ring, no matter what size it is. It's not just his words but that little symbol of his promise to marry her. I don't think that is merely cultural. I think it's built into women and so is the desire to "pretty" herself up

[ILG]

Originally Posted by Praxeas

Yeah...of all the "proposal" scenes I have seen the woman's face really changes when she sees the ring, no matter what size it is. It's not just his words but that little symbol of his promise to marry her. I don't think that is merely cultural. I think it's built into women and so is the desire to "pretty" herself up

Yeah, I agree. With us, I guess the preacher proposed for us when he said we should get married. I don't even remember a proposal. Now, someone could say my husband should have done it up regardless, and maybe he should have, but it wasn't really in our plans to get married at that time, we just figured we should do what the preacher said and I don't find fault with him in that and never have. I wish we would have had all of that. No rings. No proposal. No honeymoon. No bridesmaids. No flower girl. No family.

My husband and I will be married for 25 years this July. We had big plans for a 25th wedding anniversary trip. Then, my husband had to have unexpected kidney stone surgery and our renters didn't pay their rent and caused a lot of damage to our house and ran out on their lease. We have investment money.....but if we spend that, we don't have it to invest. So, it really bothers me that unless we sell this house, we are not having that trip. It really bothers my husband too, maybe even more than it bothers me.

Just venting here. Please help us pray that we sell that place so we can have some good things.

[kclee4jc]

Originally Posted by hometown guy

On another thread someone put something about wedding bands and it got me thinking. I have been in and around many churches both liberal and conservative. In every church that I have attended rings have been preached against but some of the churches will wear wedding rings. The funny thing is they always refer to them as wedding bands. So my question is why would it be wrong to wear rings but its ok to wear wedding bands. Isn’t a wedding band a ring? Isn’t it jewelry? Are they trying to justify it by calling it a wedding band?

Brothert Verbal Bean taught on wedding rings often. He has some very interesting information on the history of such. I find the practice of wearing a wedding ring validated no where in the scripture. And of course we see jewelry spoke against several times in the epistles. A wedding band is no different in my opinion...it's jewelry. And i find no teaching of "functional" or "ornamental jewelry" in the scripture. I don't judge others for wearing one but i do not believe it is ok and when/if i am married i will not wear one.

[pelathais]

Originally Posted by kclee4jc

Brothert Verbal Bean taught on wedding rings often. He has some very interesting information on the history of such. I find the practice of wearing a wedding ring validated no where in the scripture. And of course we see jewelry spoke against several times in the epistles. A wedding band is no different in my opinion...it's jewelry. And i find no teaching of "functional" or "ornamental jewelry" in the scripture. I don't judge others for wearing one but i do not believe it is ok and when/if i am married i will not wear one.

Someone needs to cross post this thread with the "Why Are There So Few Graduates at UGST?" thread.

[ILG]

I never wore a wedding ring through either of my pregnancies.

[scotty]

I wear my wedding ring/band and my Tazmanian Devil tie. The sunday school kids love it.

[Truthseeker]

I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life. ~Rita Rudner

[Truthseeker]

All marriages are happy. It's the living together afterward that causes all the trouble. ~Raymond Hull

[Truthseeker]

Never feel remorse for what you have thought about your wife; she has thought much worse things about you. ~Jean Rostand, Le Mariage, 1927

[RandyWayne]

Originally Posted by Truthseeker

Never feel remorse for what you have thought about your wife; she has thought much worse things about you. ~Jean Rostand, Le Mariage, 1927

Never criticize your wife's faults because without them she probably would have found a much better husband. -Source unknown