How to celebrate your Irish love with Celtic rings

Embrace your cultural heritage (or your loved one's) by offering your hand in marriage with Celtic rings. These items make beautiful promise, wedding and anniversary gifts, particularly when accompanied by a handwritten note explaining the history of the Celts.

Instructions

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Things You’ll Need:

• Internet Access/Telephone Book
• Reputable jeweller
• Money

1. Claddagh rings offer the promise of love, close friendship and marriage Show your love how much they mean to you with a claddagh ring. Crafted from white or yellow gold, titanium or silver, these rings feature two hands holding a heart. By tradition they are the first step toward an Irish wedding. This Celtic engagement ring brings with it a special promise that goes beyond attraction and infatuation; it symbolises promise, engagement and close friendship.
2. Celtic engagement rings quite literally have you 'tying the knot'. Featuring an intricate knot or knots that have no beginning or end they symbolise the endless cycle of love between a man and woman who have chosen to spend their lives together. Inspired by Irish monks rings often embrace nature with images of birds, trees or plants engraved in the pieces.
3. On your wedding day, offer your love a ring which includes aspects of the love knot and or the claddagh. A trinity or love knot style symbolises eternity and is an ideal choice to show your exchange of vows.
4. The Triskele motif symbolises eternity so would make a fantastic eternity or wedding ring Other styles for wedding ring include motifs such as: spirals, triskeles, triquetas, shield knots and sun symbols.

Tips & Warnings

• Have your proposal reflect your choice of bands by presenting it at an Irish restaurant complete with traditional Celtic music. If you really want to splurge offering it in Ireland would make the ultimate proposal!