Using a family heirloom ring in wedding ceremony

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A friend of mine is getting married in the Catholic faith and her husband’s family (who is Jewish) asked if they could include their family’s heirloom ring, which has been in every family member’s Jewish wedding ceremony since their great grandmother or something.

She doesn’t know the answer and neither do I. Can a ring that the couple doesn’t intend to wear past the wedding day, be used in the wedding ceremony?

Their plan is that it’ll be blessed, worn the wedding day, and then go back in it’s box and that’ll be that until the next family wedding.
 
I’m not sure. I guess a blessing can be given.

But I don’t understand why the Jewish family would want the ring blessed by a Catholic priest.
 
I’m not concerned with them using the ring, but I am concerned with a Catholic blessed item getting put back in a box and then being used for some non-Catholic wedding in the future. We aren’t supposed to treat blessed objects that way.

My suggestion would be to have two rings - one a regular blessed one for the bride to keep and wear, and the second the Jewish one which will not be blessed, but the groom can certainly put that ring on the bride after he puts the blessed ring on. Then the un-blesed Jewish heirloom goes back in its box for the next family member, and bride has a wedding ring she can wear. Most married people like to have a wedding ring they can wear in my experience; for one thing, it signals to others you are married, which cuts down on a lot of unwanted come-ons, and also protects the wearer from giving any impression that he or she is single and available.
 
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My house is blessed. If I give my house to a Jewish family, to a Baptist family, to a Muslim family, to a Pagan family, I can give (or sell) them the home.

When something is blessed like a ring or a car or a prayer shawl or a restaurant, that does make the thing non-transferable.

Some.people.cannot afford rings and borrow them for their Catholic Wedding.
 
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