Diamonds have been associated with eternity because of their enduring nature and strength, while there is also an association between diamonds and love. This makes them the perfect stone to symbolize the eternal love of a married couple.
The implied durability, clarity, pureness of a diamond conveys the meaning in the American psyche that marriage is forever, unadulterated with the passing of time.
A man presents his prospective bride with an Engagement Ring upon acceptance of his marriage proposal.
Anthropologists believe this tradition originated from a Roman custom in which wives wore rings attached to small keys, indicating their husbands' ownership
In 1477, Archduke Maximillian of Austria commissioned the very first Diamond Engagement Ring on record for his betrothed, Mary of Burgundy sparking a trend for diamond rings among European aristocracy and nobility. The sentimental Victorians then popularized ornate engagement ring designs mixed diamonds with other gemstones, precious metals, and enamels.
In 1947, De Beers launched its now-classic marketing slogan, "A Diamond is forever”, paving way for the higher importance of diamond wedding rings.
Importance of adding diamonds to your wedding ring is:
1. SYMBOLIZES ETERNAL AND UNBREAKABLE LOVE: Use of Diamond Wedding Ring Symbolizes the relationship of a couple an expression of everlasting and life-long love, something very eternal to have an ability to withstand the challenging times along the years of the couple. Some others may them for themselves as an expression of an individual’s dazzling, distinctive, radiant personalities like the qualities of reliability, inner strength, fire, and sparkle. Additionally, it offers the qualities of being sturdy hard, high in clarity and color radiance with emitting high dispersion of light also adds in their ever heightened demand.
2. SCIENTIFIC REASONS: Scientifically, it’s been found out that a diamond gives victory to he or she who carries it bound on his left arm, no matter the number of enemies. Diseases like panics, pestilences, and enchantments are all said to flee by wearing diamonds. Arabic diamonds are said to attract iron greater than a magnet. Additionally, diamond has the properties of curing sleepwalkers and insane people.
3. CULTURAL ASPECT: Many cultures over the world emphasize the use of diamonds in wedding jewelry for its connectivity with Gods. Like the in Hinduism, history has it that God Indra used Vajrayudham or the thunderbolt as his primary weapon, Vajra, the word for diamond and ayudham means weapon in Sanskrit. In fact, in Hinduism, the importance of diamonds is much more by the evidence that there are 14 names counted to be given to them. Chinese are not far in the back, in which they have an oldest dated printed book in the world called the Diamond Sutra, telling about the teachings of Buddha to mean to educate by that a 'diamond blade that will cut through worldly illusion to illuminate what is real and everlasting'. The Romans valued the diamond entirely on account of the supernatural powers they ascribed to it to baffle poison, keep off insanity and dispel vain fears. The medieval Italians copied these beliefs and added some to it: they called it the "Pietra della Reconciliazione" (stone of reconciliation) because it maintained concord between husband and wife. In more recent times a Parisian Oracle of mystic subjects, the Baron d'Orchamps, announced the diamond if worn on the left (hand) warded off evil influences and attracted good fortune. Other culture like the Greek Mythology signified diamonds as a divine intervention.
4. INVESTMENT: The infusion of Diamonds in Wedding Jewelry has the advantage of investments and an asset for life as they are inflation proof and their resale value tend to be comparatively high.
5. BETTER SPARKLE, DESIGN, AND ENGRAVINGS: Diamonds wedding rings are offered by various jewelers in various formats like that of small mixed colored diamond sets to give a very bright tone to the fingers or a big single simple diamond just to grasp the attention of all. Diamond Wedding Rings are also crafted and engraved in various shapes and carvings as it offers the independence to artisans to exercise creativity and exquisiteness either be custom made or matched pairs for the couple.
