a question re engagements....

[Emeraldgreen]

My husband and I lived together for 8.5 years before we were married. For 8 years we wore silver Hawaiian wedding bands that match that we picked up for 25.00 each. We love them and called them our 'going steady' rings.

Then he surprised me and asked me to marry him and had a ring for me. He had a local native artist design it. We bought him a ring to match the new one but our only dilemma was that we missed wearing our other rings. So now we switch them on the 21st of every month so each ring gets worn every other month.

[RICHARD]

And then you have Jennifer Wilbanks......

[catland]

We picked out our rings together. Instead of an engagement ring, I opted for a single wedding band that has a diamond in it. Because of the design, it actually stands alone quite nicely. (some engagement/wedding rings are designed to look incomplete on their own and complete together).

[jazzcat]

Richard surprised me with an engagement ring. He had it made, a 2 carat blue sapphire, and I LOVE it. When it came time to get the wedding rings we picked them out together and we got a diamond ring guard to go around my sapphire. My ring guard has broken and been repaired several times over the past 18 years but it finally broke beyond repair last month. I'm hoping "Santa" will bring me a new wedding band or at least a gift card to get one. I've been looking around and dropping some big hints for a diamond wrap to go around the sapphire. I hope I can get something soon because I feel naked without my wedding set.

[sparks19]

I actually don't know anyone who picked out their own engagement ring lol. It was always a surprise... you know... guy gets down on one knee and opens the ring box sorta thing.

But as far as the actual wedding rings go I think most people pick them out together.

[catnapper]

My husband's taste is jewelry is FAR from the same as mine. Oh God, his taste is awful! I actually bought my ring while we were dating, handed it him and told him to give it to me when he was ready. So a few months later, he proposed with the ring I gave him. I'm getting a new ring for Christmas, because I hate wearing the engagement ring (it keeps getting caught on things and just not practical for the work I do) He bought a ring for me and I made him take it back. We picked out one together.... in other words, he was present while I picked out hte new ring. I have to have it made for me because the one they had on display is white gold and I hate white gold.

[Grace]

I don't have an engagement ring - MY choice. My wedding band is a plain, narrow gold band. That's what I wanted. He doesn't wear a ring. Neither of us is big into jewelry, I guess.

[Edwina's Secretary]

For those whose husbands picked out the ring on his own...did you pick out his ring (if he wears one)?

Just curious....