The most common way to respect this on your wedding day is to swap your engagement ring to your right hand shortly before you walk down the aisle. Your future spouse may now slip the band right up your left finger. It can be completed with the engagement ring either during or after the ceremony. The symbolism of a ring on the right vs. left hand is vastly different. In the Western culture, the left ring finger is where one may learn about another person's marital status. If you're officially married, you'd wear a wedding band on your left ring finger.