functioned, people believed that a vein ran directly from the fourth digit on the left hand to the heart. Because of the hand-heart connection, they chose the descriptive name vena amoris, Latin for vein of love, for this particular vein.

Based upon this name, their contemporaries, purported experts in the field of matrimonial etiquette, wrote that it would only be fitting that the wedding ring be worn on this digit. By wearing the ring on the fourth digit of the left hand, a married couple symbolically