If you got divorced at some point, what did you do with your wedding/engagement rings?

I was so relieved to be out of the marriage I sold the wedding ring and went on holiday. The start of a happier more contented and interesting life.

I love your story Coolgran ❤️ what a lovely gesture for your friend.

Spangler 46y for us! I realised though reading this thread I’ve not been wearing my rings though in this heat ... my fingers can feel like pork sausages on some days!

Just realised that I'm wearing my Mum's first engagement ring and have been for the past several years. She got engaged and then met the man who went n to be her husband and my father. The first man didn't want the ring back so she gave to her cousin who was also her goddaughter. Some years back the cousin passed it back to me and it never comes off my finger and I love it.

Still got mine, they will go to my eldest granddaughter when I die. No strong feelings either way about jewellery. My fingers are too fat to get them on now.

I hadn't been married long (1 week to be exact!) when I realised that I had made the biggest mistake of my life. I'd seen warning signs for the few months we'd lived together before the actual wedding but closed my eyes and ears to them but after the wedding realised that it wouldn't work as things were very clear to me then. So I managed to sell the engagement ring back to the jewellers that it came from and I honestly can't recall what happened to the wedding ring.

I had a beautiful engagement ring. Not fancy but a pretty ring with emeralds and pearls. I gave it to our daughter when she was 21. At some point in the last 15 years she's lost it. Sad but I didn't want it, so...

I've still got both my previous engagement and wedding rings in my jewellery box, not that there is much in there of any value. My first marriage ended a long time ago, no real acrimony. I've been living with and married to my husband 36 or so years now. The rings from my previous marriage don't have any sentimental value for me, I don't ever wear them, I don't know where they will eventually end up, I hadn't really thought about them in a long while until this thread!

Sold wedding ring. Money spent on children. Engagement ring remodelled and my granddaughter will have it. I wear it a lot on my left hand it is beautiful.

Spangler. Your friend sounds awesome. ?

I have never divorced but have my wedding and engagement rings languishing in a drawer somewhere.
Thank you for reminding me OP. I think I’ll sell them. My late husband won’t be offended.

Cool gran. Lovely story.
I had a russiAn style wedding ring and I now wear it on my other hand on my little finger (slight difference in size of fingers over the years!)
Didn’t have an engagement ring.

I'm still wearing mine (on my right hand) along with the new ones, from my second marriage, on my left hand - no problem!

I felt like a voyeur reading this thread, like B9exchange, I have never been divorced, perhaps I should start a thread, how long have you been married. 52 years since you ask.

Disposing of the engagement and wedding rings is something that I have never thought about, but you might like what our friend did, I had better not put her name up. She somehow managed to use her wedding ring like an oversize washer. It connects the lavatory handle with the flushing mechanism, inside the cistern.
"He shat on me once too often," she quips.

I still have mine, though I never wear them. Charities will take unwanted jewellery.

My engagement ring languished in my jewellery box. .
It was a beautiful ring and I planned to wear It on my other hand but never did. It represented a very difficult time. My best friend of 40 years had always admired it.
One day I gathered up all my broken jewellery and took it to sell it for weight. My friend was with me. I popped my engagement ring into my purse.

Once the deal was done with the gold I asked about my ring. The guy wasn't really interested in it and made an offer based on its weight. I guess I could have out it in an auction but never did.
As we drove home I thought about my friend sitting beside me and how much she had been there for me.
over the years. I got my ring out and gave it to.her. She was overwhelmed and started to cry. Said she loved it and would give me twice what I had been offered. Absolutely not. I wanted no money involved, just a gift from me to her. I was never going to wear it and was happy just to know that it would be appreciated in a way that i no longer could do

The event of a broken engagement a lady offers the ring back but no gentleman would accept.

I told my daughters years ago about engagement rings.
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I am lucky enough never to have been divorced, but when my long time engagement was terminated by my then fiance, he demanded the ring back. Initially reluctant, I couldn't think what I would do with it, so I gave it back to him, and he traded it in for a music centre. It didn't do much for my confidence, I can tell you!

I'm looking at mine with renewed interest tonight!

Sold them for scrap and bought something beautiful!

Sold them for scrap along with a few other bits and bought a very nice camera with the £900 I got.

Now would be a very good time to sell them with gold prices being at a record high.

Sold them for cash of course (and a nice bit of cash too)!

I didn't have an engagement ring

As for my wedding ring I only wore it for the day itself. No idea what happened to it.

Not a fan of rings

My sister refused to give the engagement ring back to her husband after she left him.

This ring had been a family heirloom and I thought she should have returned it but she didn't.

My eldest daughter has my engagement ring she doesn’t wear it and I have not only my wedding ring but my now deceased ex’s ring too. It was very odd and I never did get to the bottom of it but he gave me his ring and said ‘one day you’ll give that back to me’, after I had finally convinced him our marriage was over and I was leaving. Both rings sit in my jewellery box where they’ll probably sit till I gone.