Ermington, Australia 25 March 2014 : The custom of exchanging wedding bands Sydney goes back to wedding ceremonies performed in Ancient Rome and is commonly thought, by historians, to be much older than that. The exchange of Sydney wedding band between the bride and the groom has lasted more than three millennia, and is very much alive and popular today, continuing to symbolize unity everlasting unity between the spouses.

Wedding bands were traditionally exchanged at a betrothal, where an engagement ring was given as the first of a series of gifts from the bride to the groom (in some cultures, it may work the other way round; in others, it works both ways) which ends at the wedding ceremony with another wedding ring to symbolize that the couple has been married. This is a practice followed ordinarily by Eastern Orthodox Churches and Catholic Churches in the East, where the wedding is presented to the groom by the priest or by the groom's best man. Subsequently, the groom puts the wedding band on the bride's finger. In the recent past, the Greek Orthodox Church has done away with the ring exchanged at the betrothal ceremony and now maintains the custom of exchanging wedding bands only at the wedding ceremony itself.

In other cultures, such as in India, many brides traditionally wore their wedding band on their toes. This is called the 'bichiya' and symbolizes the same sentiment as wedding bands on the fingers, but are increasingly being done away with, replaced by the modern and Western counterpart: the wedding band on the finger.

Most wedding music bands Sydney are made either of gold or of silver, because they symbolize not only a unity in love, but also symbolize the practice of the bestowal of wealth by the groom onto the wife. In fact, records of a ceremony and an excerpt from the prayer book of King Edward VI of England show that the priest was required to wed the couple with the ring, but also to bestow silver and gold on the wife from the husband as part of the ceremony. These words were traditionally followed by the groom giving the bride a purse made of leather, filled with coins made of gold and silver.

This goes back to times and traditions when weddings took place more the sake of monetary stability than for love. As an old, and now out of use, German wedding vow shows, the exchange of wedding bands was more a condition than a promise of love. The groom only puts the best wedding bands Sydney on the wife as a symbol of the fact that her father had promised to pay him one thousand Reichsthalers.

However, in modern times, and mostly in western countries, marriages are a bond between individuals - the husband and the wife - rather than a bond between the families as an attempt towards social and monetary stability. So, in modern times, especially among members of the Catholic, Greek Orthodox, Protestant Churches - and sometimes among the Jewish community - couples have begun the practice of exchanging two bands: both the wife and the husband give wedding bands Sydney to each other, to symbolize an equal standing in the marriage.

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