Wedding/Engagment ring Q's?
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From: St. Peter
Wedding/Engagment ring Q's?
Ok, I know you wear them on your finger...That is not my question.
So, you buy the girl an engagement ring, and get engaged. Then you proceed to buy a wedding ring and get married. Then after the wedding you just wear both rings, or stick the engagment ring in the jewlry box, or what?
Or do you get the wedding set thing where you have an engagment ring, and it interlocks with the wedding band to form 1 ring?
What is standard practice? Or is there really no set standard, and everyone does whatever they want?
Or do you just not get married and save yourself alot of trouble?
So, you buy the girl an engagement ring, and get engaged. Then you proceed to buy a wedding ring and get married. Then after the wedding you just wear both rings, or stick the engagment ring in the jewlry box, or what?
Or do you get the wedding set thing where you have an engagment ring, and it interlocks with the wedding band to form 1 ring?
What is standard practice? Or is there really no set standard, and everyone does whatever they want?
Or do you just not get married and save yourself alot of trouble?
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From: Wallingford, CT
Question: Do you like all your stuff?
If answer = yes : Don't get married
If answer = no I want to get rid of half : Go get married.
Or you could just ignore the cynical individual writing this post.
If answer = yes : Don't get married
If answer = no I want to get rid of half : Go get married.
Or you could just ignore the cynical individual writing this post.
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Yes! Just talk her into shacking up and run away the first time she starts nagging you will save you the most trouble! 
But really, I think the tradition is a "set" which is an engagement ring and wedding band that nest together. That's what my mom had.
My wife and I weren't that traditional. (We had a chocolate wedding cake.) At the time, I couldn't afford an engagement ring. We went to the jeweler's and picked out matching wedding bands. About a year after we were married, I sold my Fender guitar and bought her a nice ring with several diamonds set in it. The Fender would probably be worth almost $4,000 today. Ten times what I paid for it. But the ring is priceless. We've been married 35 years. Neither one of us wear a wedding band and I havn't worn mine in probably 25 years. I just can't stand the feel of a ring. Even in our wedding photo, you can see me plucking at it with my thumb. But she still wears that ring that I sold the Fender for.
Yes, I've been buying Fender's for years now. Trying to replace that first love.
But really, I think the tradition is a "set" which is an engagement ring and wedding band that nest together. That's what my mom had.
My wife and I weren't that traditional. (We had a chocolate wedding cake.) At the time, I couldn't afford an engagement ring. We went to the jeweler's and picked out matching wedding bands. About a year after we were married, I sold my Fender guitar and bought her a nice ring with several diamonds set in it. The Fender would probably be worth almost $4,000 today. Ten times what I paid for it. But the ring is priceless. We've been married 35 years. Neither one of us wear a wedding band and I havn't worn mine in probably 25 years. I just can't stand the feel of a ring. Even in our wedding photo, you can see me plucking at it with my thumb. But she still wears that ring that I sold the Fender for.
Yes, I've been buying Fender's for years now. Trying to replace that first love.
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From: St. Peter
Ha ha, I figured i'd get some funny responses out of this one. We have been living together for 4 years now and really enjoy each other. We will be done with college in less than a year, and I am starting to think of these things ahead of time.
I've been meaning to get rid of about 1/2 my stuff anyway...
thanks for the responses so far.
I've been meaning to get rid of about 1/2 my stuff anyway...
thanks for the responses so far.
pedant
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From: EXTREME southwest CT
Funny you ask.
I've been divorced 10 years (and happy for it)
From that experience I say save yourself the trouble.
I just bought myself a wedding band yesterday.
Never had one then,... never worn jewelry at all.
My favorite GF asked me to be monogamous, and so I told her as a representation of the commitment I will make to her I'd like to wear a ring.
She thinks I'm crazy.
I think she's right.
I've been divorced 10 years (and happy for it)
From that experience I say save yourself the trouble.
I just bought myself a wedding band yesterday.
Never had one then,... never worn jewelry at all.
My favorite GF asked me to be monogamous, and so I told her as a representation of the commitment I will make to her I'd like to wear a ring.
She thinks I'm crazy.
I think she's right.
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Jim,... you are so sca-roooood! Do like me and wear a watch instead!
Oh and WTF? CT is so big that it has a SW corner? LOL? What's up with that? Okay, I am messing with you. But you and I seem to be the only ones on tonight!
Oh and WTF? CT is so big that it has a SW corner? LOL? What's up with that? Okay, I am messing with you. But you and I seem to be the only ones on tonight!
pedant
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From: EXTREME southwest CT
Scott,
There's a joke there, but I'm not touching it.
Connecticut has a little 'foot' that adjoins Westchester County NY.
Stamford and Greenwich. That's where I am.
Unless she convinces me to run away and elope.
There's a joke there, but I'm not touching it.
Connecticut has a little 'foot' that adjoins Westchester County NY.
Stamford and Greenwich. That's where I am.
Unless she convinces me to run away and elope.
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I bought the set, neither one of us spent much money on the rings. We both thought that they were a big waste of money anyways. I never wear mine to work, only when I'm cleaned up to go somewhere.
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Do whatever you guys want,,, YOU are the ones who will have to live with the decisions!! LoL!! And yes, you wear them both,,, with the band closest to her heart.
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I wish I'd have known that when I was married to, getting divorced from my first wife. I think I couldn't gotten it around her neck if I had tried. That's close to the heart.
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Post Fiend
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That's the way I've always seen it done when the rings are not a set. During the ceremony, the band goes on while the engagement ring is already on the finger, but at some point the new bride will take them off, flip them around and put them back on. Some people then add additional rings in the stack at various milestone anniversaries, when then also go on the finger before the engagement ring.
Jason, who will have been wearing his wedding band for 15 years one month from today.
Jason, who will have been wearing his wedding band for 15 years one month from today.
Post Fiend
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From: Bonita Springs FL
+1 on don't do it. If you're still in college you're too young IMO. If you really are meant for each other then neither one of you is going anywhere and there should be no rush. People change a lot in their 20's and you might end up in two different places by the time you both hit 30. You would be surprised how different things are in 10 years.
As for diamonds... rent the movie "Blood Diamond" and see what our greed for shiny rocks has done to people in Africa. Also you should know that DeBiers owns almost every diamond mine in the world so guess who sets the prices for diamonds. They literally have a monopoly on the market and they charge whatever they want for them. Little known fact: Diamonds are not rare or precious. They are common as dirt. By buying one you are basically giving your money away to a company that has succeeded in pulling off one of the greatest scams in American history.
True story. Do some research.
As for diamonds... rent the movie "Blood Diamond" and see what our greed for shiny rocks has done to people in Africa. Also you should know that DeBiers owns almost every diamond mine in the world so guess who sets the prices for diamonds. They literally have a monopoly on the market and they charge whatever they want for them. Little known fact: Diamonds are not rare or precious. They are common as dirt. By buying one you are basically giving your money away to a company that has succeeded in pulling off one of the greatest scams in American history.
True story. Do some research.
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From: home's where the heart is
he didnt have money when we married, and I didnt have money when we divorced......
*sigh*
we went out and found some key "rings" that fit our fingers......IT WORKED......
and at the time it meant the world to me, wish I could say the same for him
*sigh*
we went out and found some key "rings" that fit our fingers......IT WORKED......
and at the time it meant the world to me, wish I could say the same for him