Wedding Ring Customs

• In France, Protestant and Catholics usually wear their wedding rings on the left hand, but Orthodox wear it on the right.
• In Orthodox countries, they usually wear it on the right hand.
• In the United States, Egypt, Switzerland, Romania, and Sweden, it is usually worn on the left hand.
• In Norway, Bulgaria, Austria, and Columbia, it is usually worn on the right hand.
• In Germany and for Protestants in the Netherlands, the left hand usually indicates engagement and the right marriage. Catholics in the Netherlands wear the wedding ring on the left hand.
• In the Dutch-speaking part of Belgium, the wedding ring on the ring finger of the left hand is traditional among Roman Catholics living in the provinces of West Flanders and East Flanders and in part of Limburg, but not elsewhere.
• In Sri Lanka, the groom usually wears it on the right hand and the bride on the left.
• Regardless of where the ring is placed in the wedding ceremony, Jewish couples generally transfer it to the ring finger of the left hand afterwards.