People usually wear their wedding ring on their fourth finger, but the hand on which it is worn varies from place to place.
People usually wear their wedding ring on their fourth finger, which in fact is usually called the "ring finger" precisely for that reason. But the hand on which the wedding ring is worn varies from country to country. That's right; depending on customs and traditions, in the Catholic world, the wedding ring can be worn on either the left or right hand.
In ancient times, in the time of Hippocrates, Greek doctors believed that the fourth finger of the left hand was directly connected to the heart, because of the veins that surrounded it (and still surround it), one of which was called the "vein of love" (vena amoris). What better place, therefore, than this finger – the left ring finger – to symbolize the union and love of two people?
