Quote Originally Posted by Jock Scot View Post
Quite right!

I don't know many British married men who do wear a wedding ring---its just not done. Interestingly, I have noticed at the last few weddings that we have attended the "happy couple" each had a wedding ring. Perhaps its becoming a modern trend?
That used to be the way of things here in the states as well.

I still have a living great grandmother (who will be 95 this year), and she says that my great grandfather didn't wear a wedding band. Apparently women wore (and still wear) wedding rings to show men that any advances or attempts at courtship would be inappropriate. In my great grandmother's day it wasn't socially acceptable for women to make such advances, so men didn't wear wedding bands. As times and accepted social behavior changed, men started wearing wedding bands for the same reason - to show interested women that the men were already spoken for.

It's interesting to see how (and where!) things change over time.