Engagement rings.

No I wouldn’t change mine as the surprise gift of an eternity ring after our first child is made from Cornish gold with emeralds to match the engagement ring of emeralds and diamonds. (I’m Cornish)

I only wear them when going out, but the wedding ring is never off my finger. It was heavily patterned but has worn smooth over 50 years as it is 18 carat so soft.

I gave an Aunts engagement ring to my daughter which has 3 diamonds and rather nice i thought. I also have my paternal grandmothers wedding ring which is very heavily figured and heavy.

Alas, I have - I have a new one although I don't think of it as my engagement ring. I lost my original engagement ring 5 years ago whilst sea swimming I Croatia. I was heartbroken, it took me ages to come to terms with it. I've now got a very pretty ring, same stone but an entirely different setting. I'm very fond of it but it's not the same.

My ring is platinum and gold. Wedding ring was 9 ct gold and unfortunately wore the 18 ct in the engagement ring shank. Had to have the gold part of the shank replaced but the marvellous jeweller kept the platinum setting intact. My husband bought me a new wedding ring, the original has engraving in it.

OH and I were engaged on 1 May and married on 29 May. (We were going to live overseas) OH thought we weren’t going to be engaged for long enough to be entitled to a ring! So we went halves on a beautiful sapphire and diamond ring. My fingers are too large to wear it now. I had to have my wedding ring (he paid for that!) rebuilt with extra gold a few years ago. I had to have it cut off a few years ago after damaging my shoulder and my whole arm and hand swelled up. I have an eternity ring which OH bought after our first baby and a Ruby ring, bought for our Ruby anniversary.

When I got divorced I moved my engagement ring to the other hand. I love the ring but can no-longer get it off as my right hand fingers are fatter! I sold my wedding ring and some broken and unwanted chains in order to buy a new chain for the cross I was given by my grandfather as a 21st birthday present. I wear it all the time so eventually the chains give out, but thankfully I've never lost the cross!
I can't imagine altering my ring as I love it just as it is!

I’ve recently had my wedding ring melted down and changed into a plain band and my engagement ring enlarged and completely redesigned. I hadn’t worn either of them for years but couldn’t afford to get them made bigger.
The original ones had a ‘holey’ design so very difficult to enlarge more than once (they were first done 20 years ago?)
At least now I can wear them but it’s getting used to doing so again!

I have wedding , engagement and eternity rings. All which of which sit quite happily in my jewellery box . Along with my father's wedding ring , my mother's wedding ring, my grandmother's ring and also my great great Aunt's watch from the 1930's.
No daughters or granddaughters here.
My husband doesn't take his wedding ring off , even for his MRIs, his surgeries. Lol mine is just rarely on

When we got engaged, I had fallen in love with a beautiful amethyst ring in a pretty gold setting in an antique shop, but dh refused to buy me a ‘second hand’ ring! So I ended up with a plain little sapphire ring the same price as the antique one, I have never felt the same about it and rarely wear it.

I no longer wear my wedding ring. It’s abit too small now. But I like to wear a ring even though I’m widowed, so I wear my mother’s wedding ring, which is actually a bit loose. It’s platinum, which looks rather like steel or tin to me, not pretty at all. My son also had a platinum ring, but he lost it and now wears his wife’s grandmother’s ring of ‘old Polish gold’.

I should add that I never had an engagement ring, as we were never engaged. We just got married. My husband did buy me a couple of pretty rings later.

I’ve had three engagement rings. Two resulted in marriage. The first from my first marriage when I was very young I kept for sentimental reasons (to remind me of my young, silly and too hopeful self!) until it was stolen along with other jewellery. My second, from my long term marriage which ended in divorce, is around somewhere although I might have lost it! The third, from a difficult relationship I decided not to continue, was given to a charity auction for the homeless where I hope it raised a good amount as it was expensive! So my engagement rings, along with my expectations of another, have changed considerably!

Never had one, couldn't afford it at the time but we did buy my wedding ring very early on so I cherish that dearly and looked forward to the day I would be wearing it.

I had 2 wedding rings as one had to be cut off years ago due to getting stung by a wasp. I had it fixed but was never particularly happy with it so my husband bought me another one and I had an engagement ring years after we married as we couldn’t afford one at the time. During the years of our marriage I ended up also buying an Emerald which was from the last of a mine in South Africa and I had it set in an eternity ring he bought me when we had our son. I’m not one for stacking rings as I have a problem with the joints of my hands as I’ve got older. We went to Guernsey on holiday about 10 years ago and I took all my bits and pieces of old jewellery with me that I’d collected over the years with the intention of selling it all. I was looking at the beautiful rings in this old Windmill shop and showed her all of the bits I know longer wear and she suggested I had my wedding, engagement and eternity ring melted down and we put our heads together and design one ring that encompasses them all and she weighed up my old bits I no longer wanted and that helped pay for my new ring, so that’s what I did. At the back of my ring it now has my initial in a lovely swirl with the figure 8 as that is for infinity and the main emerald is on the top with other little diamonds and emeralds around it, I had with the bits I no longer wear. It was sized to my finger so fits perfect and most of the stones have rub over setting so nothing can catch. It’s quite wide but not chunky and I was thrilled with it, so when I pass I’m only leaving one ring for jewellery which my Son wants but at least I’m not leaving him a box full of junk which he would feel guilty about selling or getting getting rid of. It’s also much nicer just to wear the one very unusual ring.

My first two engagement rings were stolen and eventually I chose a new ring which I love. Apparently in the US it is quite common to trade your ring in for another when you are better off and some people do it several times, sometimes keeping the a larger stone as part of a new ring.

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When we got engaged, I had fallen in love with a beautiful amethyst ring in a pretty gold setting in an antique shop, but dh refused to buy me a ‘second hand’ ring! So I ended up with a plain little sapphire ring the same price as the antique one, I have never felt the same about it and rarely wear it.

When we got engaged my husband insisted that I must choose a ring immediately, but it was Saturday and at that time many shops were shut in the afternoon.
I ended up with a ring that I didn't like much, though I obviously had a sentimental attachment to it because of what it represented.

My mother got engaged to my father after just two weeks and she refused to let him spend much in case something went wrong between the two of them. In fact they were very happily married until he died.

I guess I’m not sentimental - even though we’ve been married 59 years and counting! I had my original engagement ring redesigned about 20 years ago, but didn’t really like the result so didn’t wear it regularly…..then as the years went by my fingers got bigger and it doesn’t fit now. Before that my husband bought me a new wedding ring …..a wider more elaborate design which I did wear for some years, but again it’s now too small and sits in my jewellry box. Now - when a couple of my granddaughters come round - they love to go into that box and try on all my jewellry and enjoy hearing the same old stories I tell them about where I got each piece and what it represents! I must say I get far more pleasure out of repeating these stories and watching their faces as they check out each piece than I would do at wearing any of it at this age!

When we got engaged in 1975, my engagement ring was a .20 diamond. It was on the yellowy side in colour. It was in a white gold setting with 4 claws which made it look square although it was a round diamond. The band was yellow gold. It cost £67.00...
On my 50th birthday, my husband took me to the Jewellery Quarter in Birmingham to choose a piece of jewellery and I chose a three stone ring, the diamonds in which was approximately the same size as my original diamond.
I wear that (alongside the new wedding ring which I bought to match the size of the band on the new ring). My original engagement ring sat safely in its box. Until we were burgled. They took quite a lot of pieces of sentimental value, like my grannie's 22ct broad wedding ring which was such a part of my memories (holding her hand and seeing her ring...) and I don't think I have ever really forgiven them.
To the extent that a few years ago I bought a second hand solitaire diamond ring, which (after the stone fell out of its 4 claw setting) I had reset into a six claw "Tiffany style" setting which I chose in the Jewellery Quarter. I alternate between the singe stone and the three stone ring.
And I always take my rings off at night, when I'm showering, washing up etc.
With some of the insurance money, I bought myself a diamond half hoop eternity ring, which I sometimes wear instead of my wedding ring.
I haven't changed the husband (but he's not really the jewellery-buying type...)

I have worn my engagement ring, wedding ring and eternity ring every day without fail since I got them (1967, 1969 and 1980). Mean much too much to ever think about changing them. To me they are beautiful and a sign of the love shared between my DH and myself.

I honestly can’t remember when we got engaged but I do know we got married in 1977.

My engagement ring came from Ratners and was probably the cheapest one in the shop as we had no money. It had a tiny diamond set in and you almost needed a magnifying glass to see it.

The diamond fell out about 20 years ago and I never got it replaced. It’s in a box somewhere. My wedding ring was also a cheapo Ratners and I wore that until it got so thin that I thought it might break. My husband asked me to choose a new one and I picked a russian wedding ring in white gold, rose gold and yellow gold.

I lost a diamond from my engagement ring after about 25 years. The replacement cost more than the ring cost originally.

No way would I think of altering or changing my engagement ring. It's a unique symbol and memento of a particular time and place, and of all those youthful feelings that went with them. It also signifies commitment and continuity from a fixed point in time, in partnership with my wedding ring.. in my case some 54 years ago. Fortunately, it's of a fairly ageless design too.

My husband chose my ring when he proposed and it is a small diamond as we were both young at the time with a 1 year old baby. We weren’t focused on getting married at that time but then my mum fell ill and was told she didn’t have long to live. My husband really wanted her to be at the wedding, for my sake and for her to know that I was loved and being cared for after she was gone, so he spoke to my parents with the old fashioned, traditional approach of asking their permission to marry me.
Over the years he has been very successful and has occasionally said that he would like to buy me a bigger diamond but I wouldn’t dream of it. It’s all about the thought and I never take my rings off. He bought me an eternity ring for Christmas one year and I wear that with the others every single day. If my diamond was too big the rings would look flashy - as it is my rings are subtle and look simple and elegant…….. plus my Mum and Dad were there when he proposed and the wedding was the last time the whole family was together.
I love my ring.

My engagement ring cost £17.00 from Samuel's in 1974. Not worth much more now, but I'd never change it for the world

My most treasured possession. Every time I look at it I’m taken back to 1965 and the love we had for each other then - and now.