A engagement ring is a ring made of gold or silver or another precious metal that is worn on the ring finger of the left or right hand (different in different countries).
The wedding ring symbolizes the marriage gang: the spouses carry it as a sign of loyalty. In ancient Russia, coins were used as engagement rings.
The traditional engagement ring is a smooth gold ring. It can be decorated with small diamonds or other non-colored stones.

In different sources, the development of the tradition of the engagement rings is described differently. Some authors believe that tradition begins their history in ancient Egypt, others in ancient Greece.
The ancient Greek writer Plutarch gives an interesting historical information about why it is common to carry rings on the ring finger: "According to legend, the ancient Greeks wore a ring on the finger of the left hand. The same custom, as well as the Roman. Usual custom (the Greeks call it anatomy) has been determined that one of these fingers goes out a certain finest nerve and reaches the heart;

Therefore, it was considered appropriate to honor this finger as the next finger, which was involved in the ranking heart in the body. "
The tradition of exchanging wedding rings has their roots in those distant times when happy newlyweds gave themselves symbolic wedding rings from Hanf or reeds as a sign of love and dedication. They became a prototype of modern engagement rings. Later in ancient Rome there was a custom according to which the groom, as a sign of the commitment for the future woman, gave a wedding ring made of metal to the bride's parents during the engagement ceremony.
Nowadays the engagement ring has not lost its original meaning. His round shape, which has no beginning and no end, symbolizes infinity and eternal love, and the noble metal, from which the wedding rings are traditionally produced, is a symbol of purity and integrity. But the appearance of the engagement rings has experienced a number of changes in its centuries -old story. And if the wedding rings were extremely simple at the beginning and did not have jewelry, more and more young couples choose exclusive wedding rituals for the wedding ritual nowadays, in the design of which there are both gemstone screeches and exquisite combinations of precious metals. As a rule, these are rings made of gold, although this has not been a postulate lately. The modern youth increasingly chooses rings made of titanium, tungsten carbide and even ceramics.
Originally there were two separate concepts in Russia - "engagement ring" and "wedding ring".