Today, trends like ring tattoos or colorful bands are more popular ... couple's promise to one day join their lives as one. Meanwhile, a wedding ring symbolizes the union of two lives.

They had a wedding license and a reverend the second ... they got matching eclipse tattoos on their ring fingers with the picture of a moon covering the sun at the center of a black band.

Maria Morava is a Newsweek reporter based in Edinburgh, U.K. Her focus is reporting on relationships. She has covered news, culture and trends, and entertainment at previous publications.