Famous Engagement Rings Throughout History
by Inna Kushnirski
The tradition of gifting a future bride with an engagement ring actually originated in ancient Rome. It was believed that from your left ring finger a thin vein, the “vena amoris”, ran directly to your heart, and adorning this finger was a guaranteed method of preserving “that loving feeling”. Modern science confirms that actually all your fingers house veins that run to your heart… but that’s neither here nor there because, well, tradition is tradition.