My FI and I had our wedding bands custom made by a friend of his in another state - the same one who made my engagement ring. We sent him our ring sizes and he made the rings and is sending them to us. I want to try on the rings when they arrive to make sure that they are the right size for us instead of finding out at the wedding when we can't slip them on each other's fingers. However, I mentioned this to a family member who subsequently freaked out and proclaimed that it would unleash all sorts of bad luck on our wedding. Is this real? For the sake of superstition, (to which I am more susceptible than normal since marriages in my family don't tend to last), should we not try on the rings?
Re: Bad Luck to Try on Wedding Ring?
I definitely don't think that superstitions will dictate the quality of my marriage. I meant it more as a "it couldn't hurt" type belief rather than a "this will guarantee me good things" type of belief. I am generally not a superstitious person - Heck, every few years my birthday is on Friday the 13th. I have superstitious friends who would refuse to get out of bed on those days. But I do realize that marriage takes effort and commitment and that no amount of following superstitions can save a marriage when the couple involved gives up.
I tried my band on before getting married. It wasn't a set and it's not a plain band either so I wanted to make sure the e-ring and the band went together ok. But here picture this if you don't try them on
scene 1 - rings are too tight & you can't either get them on during your ceremony, of you jam the ring on your finger, which people will notice the struggle of that during your ceremony, and you get the ring on but it's so tight you can't get it back off later & have to cut the ring off.
Scene 2 - ring is too big, ceremony goes fine, but while you're out and about doing photos or dancing the night away, the ring slips off because it's too big and you loose it.
Neither of those two scenerios has a good outcome in my opinion.
You'll be fine.