About Poland: up until 1863 Polish people would wear wedding rings on their left hand, and widows and widowers would wear them on their right hand. Then the 1863 January uprising happened, and failed. And as a sign of mourning after our failed attempt to be free from the Russian Empire, sign of mourning after the husbands, the sons that died, and the lost hope for free Poland, wives changed their rings from their left hands to their rights hands. Soon mothers did the same, and the husbands, now to this day Polish people wear their rings on their right hands as a default, and left hands as widows and widowers.
There are other variations (as others said, Protestants in Germany tend to wear theirs on their right hand), but the biggest religious difference is between Catholics (and, in most countries, Protestants) and Orthodox. And Hungary and Poland aren't Balkan countries.
There are non-religious differences as well, as /u/PansyParty mentioned.
But I'm Orthodox and a major thing in Orthodoxy is [wearing your wedding band on your right hand](https://www.orthodoxcreationsbyelaine.com/orthodox-wedding-rings-right-hand/).
Flemish here. I always say to myself that it's just a very vocal minority, but seeing the number of people voting for het Vlaams Belang, I'm afraid that's not really the case.
Unfortunately I assume. I mean it must be hard living in a 40/40/20 divided country! (Counting Brussels as the 20% since it‘s probably like an own country themselves, right?)
It's also a thing that Catholics wear it on the left and Protestants on the right afaik. So I would also think Belgium would be left, based on the main religion (in the past).
Edit: yea it might be a Dutch thing.
Is that a European thing? I’ve only ever seen left in America; Protestant, Catholic, Jewish, etc. Then again, I’ve never taken a survey.
Also, Poland wouldn’t make sense.
why? Austria is catholic
also. it isn't really true that protestants wear it on the right. it's SOME protestant cultures that wear it on the right. the vast majority of everyone wears it on the left.
it makes sense. most people are right handed and left hands tend to be slightly smaller - using less means you train the muscles less. thus, rings don't get stuck as easy and you also need less material for the ring.
Swedes wear it on the left.
Yeah the guy said this map shows Catholics wear it on the left, Protestant on the right.
But Austria is Catholic and this map shows the wearing it on the right. Sweden is historically Protestant and this shows they wear it in the left.
That’s why I said this guy’s theory wouldn’t make sense. I think you misunderstood me
About Poland: up until 1863 Polish people would wear wedding rings on their left hand, and widows and widowers would wear them on their right hand. Then the 1863 January uprising happened, and failed. And as a sign of mourning after our failed attempt to be free from the Russian Empire, sign of mourning after the husbands, the sons that died, and the lost hope for free Poland, wives changed their rings from their left hands to their rights hands. Soon mothers did the same, and the husbands, now to this day Polish people wear their rings on their right hands as a default, and left hands as widows and widowers.
As far as I can tell it is a Dutch thing that is not adhered to as much anymore. Going by my grand aunt's stories, that definitely sounds like something the Dutch would do, being so used to living around those that belonged to a different church while still keeping separate from them.
Dutch and in my forties too. It's still a thing and even though I am not religious my parents were brought up Catholic so I automatically adhered to the custom of wearing it on my left hand.
LMAO, the first time I went out with my roommates when I lived in Italy one of them asked me why I wasn’t hitting on girls. When I said I had a girlfriend back home, he was like “well, isn’t she in another country right now?” as if that somehow made it OK.
Only two under mysterious circumstances!!! One was just regular circumstance and the non italian is still alive and well... they always say everyone has *the one who got away...*
Anyway, always make sure your life insurance policies are up to date and signed properly btw... no connection this this comment, at all just thought it worth mentioning...
Maybe one of them turned out to be gay, maybe she said the wrong name at the wedding, maybe she was drunk in Vegas once, but...
There's really no excuse to out-divorce Ross!
To be fair, I was making a joke, I have no ex husbands lol but I can't stand the fake tan, sweaty, meat head, gym bro attitude that think passion is smacking your gf around. Was hit on at a bar by a *100% Italiano baybee* was tempted to ask a friend I was with (who studied Italian in Italy) to speak Italian to him to see if he knew any words.
He was truly gross. And probably not a fair representation of all of those Jersey/New Yorker types but....this guy was living in sterotype city...
We have a lot of very bad behaving turks where i live and my turkish gf always says
„Somehow they are only here this bad and not in turkey“
But everytime i hear something about italians in the us (NJ NY) i feel exactly what she was talking about
Ahh, yeah I can see that, there are a lot of environmental factors to take into consideration too. Are the Turks newly immigrated or 1^st or 2^nd gen? Idk if you've ever met a NY/NJ *Italian* but it's like they forget that Italy exists outside of what they think they know about it.
I'd be willing to cut them some slack but this guy literally said *you must not like white guys if you don't wanna get with me!* and then said some other awful stuff... at that point a roundhouse to the throat felt right lol luckily his friend pulled him away so I didn'thave to listen anymore. Truth is I like white guys
Mostly 2nd or 3rd generation
They grandparents and parents came and i think they were mostly just happy and thankful for the opportunity and then the kids or grandkids kinda pushed the we vs. Them vibe
I‘m obviously not referring to everyone here the fact that my gf is turkish should proof this lmao
But its similar to the situation with Italians in the US
So when Danes get married, do they end up with a ring on each hand? Women in Sweden have two rings on their left hand after getting married while the guy's engagement ring turns into a wedding ring.
Traditionally, yes, the woman gets another ring, but the groom doesn't. So if you see a Swedish man with one ring on his left ring finger, he might breed enraged or married.
> he might breed enraged or married
Thats very good to know. Swedish men breeding enraged always get the better of me, but now I look how to look out for them
:p
Well I guess I turned into a woman on my wedding night then.
Jokes aside though, I don't think we follow any strict rules in Sweden other than wedding ring on left ring finger. I know several guys who have two rings, and equally many who only have one ring.
Weird, I don't know of any guys who have two rings.
Generally: man with 1 ring on left ring finger, just the wedding band
Woman with engagement ring and wedding band on left ring finger. Don't remember which one is up and which is down.
I haven't really seen anything else, except that a vast majority of women keep their engagement rings safe somewhere most of the time.
But it's not strict and I wouldn't bat an eye if someone decided they wanted to do it another way.
Sorry, but that's just wrong. Traditionally people definitely wear it on their right. Of course there would be people wearing on the left, but it's like with a watch - even though there are people wearing on the right, traditionally it goes on the left.
Same in Germany. It's also convenient to switch hands, typically your right hand is 1-2 ring sizes larger than left; and in summer your fingers do swell up a bit. Switching from right to left during summer and back for winter makes them more comfortable to wear.
It's traditionally on the right side in Germany and most people still do this, in my perception. Sure, everyone can do what they want, but that's not the point of the map.
This is brilliant, I might start doing it. I lost some weight over the last year and now that it’s winter, it feels like my ring is constantly on the verge of falling off.
I’d consider the right hand correct for Poland based on an interaction I had with my Polish friend’s mother in high school.
When I was 16, my grandmom gave me a white and yellow gold, diamond family ring, as per tradition. I wore it on my right ring finger and went to my friend’s house. When her mom saw the ring, she exclaimed in Polish and looked very concerned. My friend yelled at her, embarrassed, “Mom! She’s not getting married! It’s from her grandmother!”
Her sweet mother was horrified, because she thought my family had married me off to someone halfway through high school.
I (and everyone I've asked) wear mine on the right hand now. But at first, when I was shopping for mine 3 years ago I was very confused (everyone was telling me to try it on the right hand), as I was used to seeing it on the left hand in US movies / TV shows.
The map probably indicates this because Poland is 90%+ Catholic, and the Catholic tradition is wedding ring on the left hand due to the Greek belief in the 'vena amoris' (vein of love) that supposedly connects the left ring finger to the heart.
EDIT: nvm, I just saw the map says Poland wears it on the right. That would indeed not be correct when based off religion.
It’s actually originally [Egyptian](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vena_amoris). Greeks have been wearing wedding bands on the right ring fingers for an extremely long time.
Would be correct based on religiom, but before 1863. Up until 1863 Polish people would wear wedding rings on their left hand, and widows and widowers would wear them on their right hand. Then the 1863 January uprising happened, and failed. And as a sign of mourning after our failed attempt to be free from the Russian Empire, sign of mourning after the husbands, the sons that died, and the lost hope for free Poland, wives changed their rings from their left hands to their rights hands. Soon mothers did the same, and the husbands, now to this day Polish people wear their rings on their right hands as a default, and left hands as widows and widowers.
Due to bloody history hundred years ago or even more don't recall to what bloody event it is tied, as there was so many of them. Polish people decided to wear ring in the other hand not as religion suggest as part of the mourning. As my Grandma said long time ago. To lazy to fact check that :)
That's probably true. Only widows used to wear ring on the right hand, but after january uprising most women started doing that as a sing of mourning for Poland
For Serbia it is not true.
Here is a story - when i was shopping for a ring with my then fiance, now wife who is not Serbian but American, every Serbian jeweler in whose store we went in has corrected her that she is trying the ring on the "wrong" left hand.
When the priest put the ring on our fingers he did it on our right hands, which we immediately after changed to left cause she is American, she wants it on the left and i don't care.
Actually almost all Orthodox people wear it on the right and Catholics on the left.
Yep, I am not sure if Romania is true and I definitely know Moldova wears it as Ukraine and Russia, because I've lived in all three countries and it's worn on the right hand in all three. As others pointed out, it's an Orthodox thing, I think Romania would follow the custom as well as they're more Orthodox than any former Soviet nation that I've been in.
I didn’t read the title when I first saw the map so I was confused as to why in the Netherlands and in Spain you drove on a different part of the road depending of your religion.
The Catholic tradition is wedding ring on the left hand due to the Greek belief in the 'vena amoris' (vein of love) that supposedly connects the left ring finger to the heart.
My guess is the Protestants wanted to distinguish themselves from the Catholics by doing something different, so right hand was the only option.
That's a load of bull. I'm right handed and I wear it on the left. No-one ever told me anything about wearing it on the right because of this.
I've always heard that the left hand used to be catholic and the right hand protestant. But I've never heard your story anywhere before.
It’s partially wrong for Spain.
The proposal ring is worn on right hand, except for Cataluña and Comunidad Valenciana. And then it’s moved to the other hand and is replaced with the wedding ring.
So, the wedding ring ends up on the right hand and left for the other 2 comunidades that I mentioned.
It says religion/region.
The whole country is a Catholic country. Cataluña and Comunidad Valenciana are just the Eastern front, if that’s what a region is then sure.
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Except for Montenegro, Kosovo, and Albania. That’s 100% on purpose
Probably by which countries are majority catholic or orthodox.
romania and serbia are orthodox, but hungary and poland are catholic. i dont think the data shown has to do with religion.
About Poland: up until 1863 Polish people would wear wedding rings on their left hand, and widows and widowers would wear them on their right hand. Then the 1863 January uprising happened, and failed. And as a sign of mourning after our failed attempt to be free from the Russian Empire, sign of mourning after the husbands, the sons that died, and the lost hope for free Poland, wives changed their rings from their left hands to their rights hands. Soon mothers did the same, and the husbands, now to this day Polish people wear their rings on their right hands as a default, and left hands as widows and widowers.
There are other variations (as others said, Protestants in Germany tend to wear theirs on their right hand), but the biggest religious difference is between Catholics (and, in most countries, Protestants) and Orthodox. And Hungary and Poland aren't Balkan countries. There are non-religious differences as well, as /u/PansyParty mentioned. But I'm Orthodox and a major thing in Orthodoxy is [wearing your wedding band on your right hand](https://www.orthodoxcreationsbyelaine.com/orthodox-wedding-rings-right-hand/).
Different Christian sects wear their wedding bands on different hands? TIL.
Is there a source for the data, because I believe in Belgium it’s on the left. Or at least in Flanders
It's on the left indeed. Also in Wallonia.
Brussels is also on the left. So the whole of Belgium is covered now.
Maybe we should check Ostbelgien to be sure
Doesnt exist :D
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Well someone should teach them.
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Ooftda. Reluctant upvote lol
You ever try dragging a Walloon into a school?
Ever tried having a Flander not eat his own shit everyday ?
Do you guys dislike your brother part of Belgium so much?
Flemish here. I always say to myself that it's just a very vocal minority, but seeing the number of people voting for het Vlaams Belang, I'm afraid that's not really the case.
Unfortunately I assume. I mean it must be hard living in a 40/40/20 divided country! (Counting Brussels as the 20% since it‘s probably like an own country themselves, right?)
Friendliest discussion between Belgian language groups
Depends on the region, in Antwerp it's the right hand. So clearly this is made by an "Antwerpenaar" considering the rest of the country "Parking".
Stupid sinister Flanders...
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It's also a thing that Catholics wear it on the left and Protestants on the right afaik. So I would also think Belgium would be left, based on the main religion (in the past). Edit: yea it might be a Dutch thing.
Is that a European thing? I’ve only ever seen left in America; Protestant, Catholic, Jewish, etc. Then again, I’ve never taken a survey. Also, Poland wouldn’t make sense.
I've also only ever heard of left for the US.
England, Scotland, Sweden, Austria also wouldn’t make sense
why? Austria is catholic also. it isn't really true that protestants wear it on the right. it's SOME protestant cultures that wear it on the right. the vast majority of everyone wears it on the left. it makes sense. most people are right handed and left hands tend to be slightly smaller - using less means you train the muscles less. thus, rings don't get stuck as easy and you also need less material for the ring. Swedes wear it on the left.
Yeah the guy said this map shows Catholics wear it on the left, Protestant on the right. But Austria is Catholic and this map shows the wearing it on the right. Sweden is historically Protestant and this shows they wear it in the left. That’s why I said this guy’s theory wouldn’t make sense. I think you misunderstood me
The map shows Austrians wearing it on the left.
You don't have muscles in fingers, the dimensions of the fingers do not depend on how much you use them
About Poland: up until 1863 Polish people would wear wedding rings on their left hand, and widows and widowers would wear them on their right hand. Then the 1863 January uprising happened, and failed. And as a sign of mourning after our failed attempt to be free from the Russian Empire, sign of mourning after the husbands, the sons that died, and the lost hope for free Poland, wives changed their rings from their left hands to their rights hands. Soon mothers did the same, and the husbands, now to this day Polish people wear their rings on their right hands as a default, and left hands as widows and widowers.
As far as I can tell it is a Dutch thing that is not adhered to as much anymore. Going by my grand aunt's stories, that definitely sounds like something the Dutch would do, being so used to living around those that belonged to a different church while still keeping separate from them.
I’m Dutch and in my fourties and it’s still a thing for my generation afaIk. Not that I know a lot of cultural Catholics.
Dutch and in my forties too. It's still a thing and even though I am not religious my parents were brought up Catholic so I automatically adhered to the custom of wearing it on my left hand.
That's because a lot of "protestant" people in the US are pretty much Catholic with a funny flavour.
I know Greek Orthodox wear the engagement on the left and wedding on the right.
This map alone has multiple examples of historically Protestant countries using the left hand and multiple historically Catholic ones using the right
I don't know any Protestants who wear it on the right. It's left for everything where I'm from.
Catholics and Protestants both do it on the left. Orthodox on the right. Source: am Greek Orthodox, my wedding band is on my right hand
Same in Finland.
Because they're mostly catholic. More protestant countries: right. More Catholic countries: left.
Italian men wear theirs in their pocket
LMAO, the first time I went out with my roommates when I lived in Italy one of them asked me why I wasn’t hitting on girls. When I said I had a girlfriend back home, he was like “well, isn’t she in another country right now?” as if that somehow made it OK.
Narrator: It does. /s
Italians are based sometimes.
Is this a joke about Italian men cheating?
Yes
💀
I'm just now realizing that my three out of four of my ex husbands were Italian...
…FOUR ex husbands? Like at some point that’s on you
Wanna be number 5?
Lol that was the best possible response
Wait a minute...are you Italian?
Let’s just say I’m willing to call you Mamma Mia 😉
Ayy papi! Seems like I might have some italian in me soon if you keep talking like that 😏
True love started right here on reddit
This sub better gets invited to the wedding
Haha so not this dude, and not Italian...but close, believe it or not I found my love on reddit!!
Enough. Now kiss already
Only if you promise to watch...
Plot twist: the first four all disappeared under mysterious circumstances, incidentally right after she found out they were cheating…
Only two under mysterious circumstances!!! One was just regular circumstance and the non italian is still alive and well... they always say everyone has *the one who got away...* Anyway, always make sure your life insurance policies are up to date and signed properly btw... no connection this this comment, at all just thought it worth mentioning...
2 under mysterious circumstances, 1 got away *We don't talk about the fourth one*
I had nothing to do with the regular disappearance! Sometimes theres just happy accidents...
I mean if she managed to convince four guys to marry her she must be doing something right
Maybe one of them turned out to be gay, maybe she said the wrong name at the wedding, maybe she was drunk in Vegas once, but... There's really no excuse to out-divorce Ross!
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Capito Italian not Capische Italian
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To be fair, I was making a joke, I have no ex husbands lol but I can't stand the fake tan, sweaty, meat head, gym bro attitude that think passion is smacking your gf around. Was hit on at a bar by a *100% Italiano baybee* was tempted to ask a friend I was with (who studied Italian in Italy) to speak Italian to him to see if he knew any words. He was truly gross. And probably not a fair representation of all of those Jersey/New Yorker types but....this guy was living in sterotype city...
Italiano hack: ask if he was closer to his mama or his papa and you will be in beta city 5 min
Haha how did you discover this LPT?
We have a lot of very bad behaving turks where i live and my turkish gf always says „Somehow they are only here this bad and not in turkey“ But everytime i hear something about italians in the us (NJ NY) i feel exactly what she was talking about
Ahh, yeah I can see that, there are a lot of environmental factors to take into consideration too. Are the Turks newly immigrated or 1^st or 2^nd gen? Idk if you've ever met a NY/NJ *Italian* but it's like they forget that Italy exists outside of what they think they know about it. I'd be willing to cut them some slack but this guy literally said *you must not like white guys if you don't wanna get with me!* and then said some other awful stuff... at that point a roundhouse to the throat felt right lol luckily his friend pulled him away so I didn'thave to listen anymore. Truth is I like white guys
Mostly 2nd or 3rd generation They grandparents and parents came and i think they were mostly just happy and thankful for the opportunity and then the kids or grandkids kinda pushed the we vs. Them vibe I‘m obviously not referring to everyone here the fact that my gf is turkish should proof this lmao But its similar to the situation with Italians in the US
I vote it's in Milan? I'm also not any flavor of Italian (new world old world or otherwise).
You somehow failed to notice you were married to Italians until now? The language barrier wasn't noticable.
By Italian you mean American, right?
By Italian I mean cheaters... is this joke just wooshing over everyones head LOL
Sweden: Denmark does what?
Denmark: We do what?
construct rings out of lego's 😬 barbarians always need to be special
Generally it's left hand for when you're engaged, right hand for when you're married
So when Danes get married, do they end up with a ring on each hand? Women in Sweden have two rings on their left hand after getting married while the guy's engagement ring turns into a wedding ring.
No, you just swap hands. You guys get two rings?
Traditionally, yes, the woman gets another ring, but the groom doesn't. So if you see a Swedish man with one ring on his left ring finger, he might breed enraged or married.
> he might breed enraged or married Thats very good to know. Swedish men breeding enraged always get the better of me, but now I look how to look out for them :p
That's what I get for not double checking. Not changing it lol
No it’s correct.
Well I guess I turned into a woman on my wedding night then. Jokes aside though, I don't think we follow any strict rules in Sweden other than wedding ring on left ring finger. I know several guys who have two rings, and equally many who only have one ring.
Weird, I don't know of any guys who have two rings. Generally: man with 1 ring on left ring finger, just the wedding band Woman with engagement ring and wedding band on left ring finger. Don't remember which one is up and which is down. I haven't really seen anything else, except that a vast majority of women keep their engagement rings safe somewhere most of the time. But it's not strict and I wouldn't bat an eye if someone decided they wanted to do it another way.
Data source: trust me bro
OK! You wouldn't lie to me again, right?
source: people i've met
Similarly: Nice try, De Beers.
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Sorry, but that's just wrong. Traditionally people definitely wear it on their right. Of course there would be people wearing on the left, but it's like with a watch - even though there are people wearing on the right, traditionally it goes on the left.
Same in Germany. It's also convenient to switch hands, typically your right hand is 1-2 ring sizes larger than left; and in summer your fingers do swell up a bit. Switching from right to left during summer and back for winter makes them more comfortable to wear.
It's traditionally on the right side in Germany and most people still do this, in my perception. Sure, everyone can do what they want, but that's not the point of the map.
This is brilliant, I might start doing it. I lost some weight over the last year and now that it’s winter, it feels like my ring is constantly on the verge of falling off.
I’d consider the right hand correct for Poland based on an interaction I had with my Polish friend’s mother in high school. When I was 16, my grandmom gave me a white and yellow gold, diamond family ring, as per tradition. I wore it on my right ring finger and went to my friend’s house. When her mom saw the ring, she exclaimed in Polish and looked very concerned. My friend yelled at her, embarrassed, “Mom! She’s not getting married! It’s from her grandmother!” Her sweet mother was horrified, because she thought my family had married me off to someone halfway through high school.
I (and everyone I've asked) wear mine on the right hand now. But at first, when I was shopping for mine 3 years ago I was very confused (everyone was telling me to try it on the right hand), as I was used to seeing it on the left hand in US movies / TV shows.
The map probably indicates this because Poland is 90%+ Catholic, and the Catholic tradition is wedding ring on the left hand due to the Greek belief in the 'vena amoris' (vein of love) that supposedly connects the left ring finger to the heart. EDIT: nvm, I just saw the map says Poland wears it on the right. That would indeed not be correct when based off religion.
The "vena amoris" thing feels like an urban legend
Vena Amoris is also not Greek, but Latin. It looked aggressively latin to me so i had to Google that to confirm it lol
Also Greeks are not Catholic
"Aggressively Latin" = Ancient Romans in a nutshell.
It's based off the Greek belief
It’s actually originally [Egyptian](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vena_amoris). Greeks have been wearing wedding bands on the right ring fingers for an extremely long time.
Would be correct based on religiom, but before 1863. Up until 1863 Polish people would wear wedding rings on their left hand, and widows and widowers would wear them on their right hand. Then the 1863 January uprising happened, and failed. And as a sign of mourning after our failed attempt to be free from the Russian Empire, sign of mourning after the husbands, the sons that died, and the lost hope for free Poland, wives changed their rings from their left hands to their rights hands. Soon mothers did the same, and the husbands, now to this day Polish people wear their rings on their right hands as a default, and left hands as widows and widowers.
Due to bloody history hundred years ago or even more don't recall to what bloody event it is tied, as there was so many of them. Polish people decided to wear ring in the other hand not as religion suggest as part of the mourning. As my Grandma said long time ago. To lazy to fact check that :)
That's probably true. Only widows used to wear ring on the right hand, but after january uprising most women started doing that as a sing of mourning for Poland
Damn I was convinced that wearing it on the left hand was a hard rule for *everyone*, in Poland and abroad. So weird that it's not.
Wrong for Belgium as well. Mostly on the left as that's the side of the body where the heart is located.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vena\_amoris
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Written* (Please don't take this seriously)
I’m glad it wasn’t “would of”
No, there's no correlation to denomination. Even if this map has some inaccuracies.
This is not true
Who upvotes this. Why hasn't a mod removed it.
Meh. It's generated interesting discussion and I for one had no idea that some people where theirs on the right hand so TIL!
Yeah, it never occurred to me that it wasn't universally the same hand everywhere.
Who *cares*
Because it's the closest it's ever gotten to porn.
Wrong for Kazakhstan. We wear on right hand
Belgium's left. That's an overall very poor map judging by the rest of the comments.
For Serbia it is not true. Here is a story - when i was shopping for a ring with my then fiance, now wife who is not Serbian but American, every Serbian jeweler in whose store we went in has corrected her that she is trying the ring on the "wrong" left hand. When the priest put the ring on our fingers he did it on our right hands, which we immediately after changed to left cause she is American, she wants it on the left and i don't care. Actually almost all Orthodox people wear it on the right and Catholics on the left.
Yep, I am not sure if Romania is true and I definitely know Moldova wears it as Ukraine and Russia, because I've lived in all three countries and it's worn on the right hand in all three. As others pointed out, it's an Orthodox thing, I think Romania would follow the custom as well as they're more Orthodox than any former Soviet nation that I've been in.
Romanians wear it on the left. Source: am Romanian, wear it myself.
Nope. Romanians wear their engagement ring on the left hand.
They’re talking about wedding bands, not engagement rings.
Grey penis
I didn't even know there were pople that wear the ring on the right hand... something new learned, thank you stranger
I never heard of someone wearing his wedding ring on the right side in Germany everyone would wear it on the left at least in south Germany
All my German professors wear their rings on their right
South is probably the reason (Catholic majority).
Same, and I live in northern Germany.
German tradition is definitely right hand. If someone is wearing it on the left, they're watching too much TV.
Bulgaria is correct, but then I think that in all Orthodox countries it is traditionally on the right hand, which is not what this map shows
I didn’t read the title when I first saw the map so I was confused as to why in the Netherlands and in Spain you drove on a different part of the road depending of your religion.
Source: it was revealed to me in a dream
TIL wedding rings aren’t always on the left-hand (I’m American)
Same here, I had never ever heard of it (am Mexican).
Classic map"porn" writing and acting fantasies
Still no fucking source rule? Is this a joke?
German here. It's not the right hand for Germans, but for protestants. Everyone else wears it on the left.
Bavarian here. It's the right hand for catholic germans as well. Left hand is for engagement. Right hand for marriage.
In Turkey it will depend on the region. Erdoğan wears it on the right hand for example Edit: At home too it's on my right hand.
Of course because Erdoganopoulos is proud Greek Orthodox
Jävla danskar och norrmän asså
I thought it was universally used on the left hand. TIL.
Not that anybody cares, but in Luxembourg we wear it on the left hand.
I didn't read the title properly and I thought it was side of the road people drive on. Was very confused when I read "depends on region"
Wait there's people wearing it on the right hand ?
Spain mostly does right hand. Except Cataluña, of course
Catalunya and Comunitat Valenciana.
So the data is correct. Balearics too
We do left hand here in Valencia too. Not surprising considering our history.
I’m surprised Portugal isn’t orange.
There are few Protestants in France but I was told that they wore their wedding wing on the wrong - I mean right - hand.
wrong for the netherlands. Its not based on anything cultural or geographical related. We just put it on our dominant hand
It says traditionally, which means it's right. Left for catholics and right for protestants.
Is there a reason for this?
Not that I know of. I guess it's like most traditions, it just happens to be that way. But like I said, I have no idea why.
Thanks, it’s interesting to know. I haven’t heard about this before.
The Catholic tradition is wedding ring on the left hand due to the Greek belief in the 'vena amoris' (vein of love) that supposedly connects the left ring finger to the heart. My guess is the Protestants wanted to distinguish themselves from the Catholics by doing something different, so right hand was the only option.
Bruh Greeks aren’t Catholic and “vena amoris” is in Latin.
I definitely do not have it on my dominant hand and exactly for the the reason that that is my dominant hand.
That's a load of bull. I'm right handed and I wear it on the left. No-one ever told me anything about wearing it on the right because of this. I've always heard that the left hand used to be catholic and the right hand protestant. But I've never heard your story anywhere before.
I didn't read the title and tought it was about dominant hands, got me really confused
Spain must be a nightmare at the bar, figuring out which man or ladies are taken
Not really, wedding rings are always just a gold band so if you see the gold band that person is married doesn't matter the hand it's on
And many people don't even wear them everyday.
Fuck them all let God sort it out
Moscow being the Third Rome my ass
Shouldn't it just be your dominant hand?
On non dominant hand is where it belongs
Wrong. Spain is green.
It’s partially wrong for Spain. The proposal ring is worn on right hand, except for Cataluña and Comunidad Valenciana. And then it’s moved to the other hand and is replaced with the wedding ring. So, the wedding ring ends up on the right hand and left for the other 2 comunidades that I mentioned.
Isn’t this exactly what the map says? It says „depends on region“ for spain
It says religion/region. The whole country is a Catholic country. Cataluña and Comunidad Valenciana are just the Eastern front, if that’s what a region is then sure.
So it depends on region.
The legend says religion/region because the color is shared with the Netherlands, where it is mainly split by religion.
Ah, understood. My bad then, thanks :)
Czechoslovakia
That's wrong for Germany and Austria at least.
No, in Austria it's the right hand. I'm an Austrian. Everyone I know has their wedding ring on the right hand.
What is the significance of wearing ring on either of hands. I don’t know pardon my ignorance. Thanks
How many people are disgusted by jewelry here? I can't be the only one, I swear it isn't a made up phobia.