Discover all styles of solitaire rings

The solitaire ring is the classic of classics! This jewel has characteristics that refer to elegance and luxury. It is a piece used both as an engagement ring and as a fashion accessory. The most common model of this ring is gold with a beautiful diamond-cut stone.

Check out everything about this jewel in this post: history, ways of using it and its different styles!

What is a solitaire ring and what is its meaning?

There are at least two stories about the origin of the solitaire ring. One is from 1423 and says that William Hankford, English chief justice and lawyer, ordered a simple hoop ring with a large diamond stone in the middle from the goldsmith, as a gift to his granddaughter who was being baptized. Because it has this “solitary” stone in the center, the ring was called solitaire.

Another story says that in 1477, the Archduke of Austria, Maximilian I asked them to make a simple ring with the purest diamond they could find, set at the top.

Maximilian presented it to his fiancée Maria, Duchess of Burgundy, as a way of making his marriage proposal official and placed it on the ring finger of his left hand, which, according to an ancient belief, is where the vein of love is located. (vena amoris), that goes directly to the heart. As a result, this ring became a symbol of love and the tradition of using it as an engagement ring began.

See below some other ways to use the solitaire ring.

solitaire engagement ring

The custom in Brazil has always been to get engaged with gold rings. The couple exchanges rings and wears them on the ring finger of their right hand, and after the wedding, they wear them on their left hand.

In the United States, the tradition is a little different. When a person asks another to marry them, they give a solitaire engagement ring that is placed on their left hand. Only this person uses it until marriage. At the wedding, the bride and groom exchange their gold rings for their left hands and the solitaire is worn together with the wedding ring.

This American habit is well known to us, as we often see in films the gesture of a man getting down on one knee and asking a woman to marry him with a beautiful piece of jewelry, which is sometimes passed down from generation to generation.

As a result, this custom did not take long to arrive in Brazil. Therefore, the use of engagement ring for marriage proposalhowever, being used in the right hand.

Generally the engagement ring is made of yellow, white or rose gold and as the name suggests, it is used to formalize the engagement and used during this phase. Are you going through this moment, but don’t really know how to order? Look these 9 engagement proposal ideas for inspiration!

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