The history of the engagement
The engagement as a ceremony, whether large or small, is of course not as old as love itself. Historically, since antiquity, the man has been cultivating the custom of permanently bonding to a wife / partner through engagement. For centuries, the act of engagement has given the beloved one a binding promise to marry him and spend life together until death. Traditionally, the betrothed willing to give his love on this occasion a ring. Going back to Jewish and Greek antiquity,...
