Do you still wear you original wedding and engagement ring

42 years on I still am!

I on my second wedding ring - a thin gold band. My first one was much wider and quite fancy so when enlarged (I got fat) it lost all its pretty pattern. I couldn’t afford to replace with the same quality so just went for a plain band. I had a diamond solitaire engagement ring - very pretty. Many years later I fell in love with a much larger diamond solitaire ring in a local second hand shop. We had some money in those days and my husband bought it for me. I eventually had my original solitaire turned into a necklace that I unfortunately lost on holiday 😢. I often think about my original engagement ring and wish I hadn’t replaced it but I was seduced by something bigger, better and brighter. Lesson learnt.

I still wear my original wedding ring, 52 years in July, still fits fine. My engagement ring had a very small stone, which fell out eventually and was never replaced. I still have the ring but just keep it in my jewellery box now.

Two divorces no idea what happened to either ring can’t even remember what they looked like and a funny story an old man spoke to me as I was leaving the theatre a few years ago and it was only after I was out the theatre that I realised it was ex number two….. well I hadn’t seen him fo 35 years !

sharon103

Norah

sharon103

My ex husband cleared off with someone else. I threw my wedding ring at him.

Well done you!

Thank you Norah Ha ha!

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I'd have sold it and told him it had been melted down for scrap.

Norah

sharon103

My ex husband cleared off with someone else. I threw my wedding ring at him.

Well done you!

Thank you Norah Ha ha!

Married 50 years, never worn a wedding or engagement ring.

My wedding ring belonged to my mother - she died a few years before I married. I wear it all the time. I was told it was bad luck to take it off but I had to take it off when DD1 was born because my hand swelled. It was cut off at A&E when I had a bike mishap and broke my wrist but it went straight back on asap after being repaired. I usually wear my engagement ring(s) when I go out but always take them off as soon as I get back. I have my own engagement ring, my mother's, two from my grandmothers and one from MIL. I wear them all in turn.

About a year after my husband died, I transferred my wedding and engagement rings to my right hand. I can't imagine ever wanting to not wear them because they're beautiful. I absolutely love them and they are a constant happy reminder of so many good years.
For my last birthday my new love gave me an infinity ring which I now wear on my left hand.

Working in a health care setting I was never able to regularly wear my engagement ring. It's too small now so I never wear it.

I still wear my wedding ring which has not been off my finger for such a long time. Although not tight where it is, it will not get over my finger joint so there it stays!

Still wear both every day since 1963 and 1965. Both have been enlarged. Can't get them off now as fingers have got fatter (like the rest of me). Found the original receipt recently. £59.10shillings for two fairly large diamonds in a twist, set in 18 carat gold
A month's wage then for my DH. So many GNs have had rings stolen. What a shame

I have worn my wedding and engagement rings happily for nearly 50 years. Wouldn’t want new ones

My first wedding ring was very broad so was taken off washing up and then lost it somewhere so had to replace it . My MIL told me list ring meant broken marriage lol! Then a stone fell out off my engagement ring and the replacement stone spoilt the ring so ended up replacing that too . Still happily together but with new rings

sharon103

My ex husband cleared off with someone else. I threw my wedding ring at him.

Well done you!

My ex husband cleared off with someone else. I threw my wedding ring at him.

Yvettehartland1

Knobbly joints mean I can’t get my rings on my wedding finger. I sometimes wear them on my right hand. I’d quite like a refresh, by DH is too tight to stump up for new 🙄🙄

Perhaps he feels the rings have meaning, new ones just wouldn't be the same.

Can you have them enlarged?

My original wedding ring had engraving inside so when it became tight my DH bought me another one a slightly different style. The original one is being stored. My engagement ring was enlarged.

Knobbly joints mean I can’t get my rings on my wedding finger. I sometimes wear them on my right hand. I’d quite like a refresh, by DH is too tight to stump up for new 🙄🙄

I took both my rings to goldsmith's and they enlarged them for me, at not too extravagant cost, so pleased because I still love both after 37 years of marriage

I continued to wear my wedding ring after my husband passed away. My daughter is getting married on Wednesday 24.04.24 . I have given her my wedding ring now and she will be married with it on Wednesday.
My husband and I were married for 46 years, I hope my ring continues and makes hers a long happy marriage.
I still wear my engagement and eternity ring.

I had my rings resized about 10 years ago. I wear my wedding ring all the time and the engagement ring sometimes. Early in our marriage the engagement ring fell into a fire accidentally. We managed to rescue it and a jeweller cleaned it up as well as he could without taking all the stones out and repolishing them. The diamonds don’t sparkle as they should but then after 43 years neither do I and I would never want to replace the ring.

Have always worn both my engagement ring and wedding ring. A few years ago the diamond fell out of my engagement ring but fortunately I was at home and heard it fall on the wooden floor, best to check claws at a jewellers occasionally. My husband had to have his wedding ring cut off as his fingers had expanded over the years. After a burglary I replaced what was taken with one lovely dress ring, which I always wear - this one is not being taken.

I can’t believe how many engagement rings have been stolen!! I decided to stop wearing my rings after my husband had been dead for 3 years, as I no longer felt married. I sometimes wear my mother’s rings, they were made in the 1930s and are too pretty to be stuck in a drawer. They fit me perfectly now, and it makes me feel close to her.

I wear my rings because I love them! The wedding band is not the original, but is a beautiful three coloured band that my dh bought me because he “thought it was time I had something more beautiful”. my “engagement ring” is a nine diamond daisy cluster that my dh had made for me by a jeweller Friend of ours, it was not really an engagement ring as we could not afford one then, but I got it many years later! I also have my mums wedding ring which I wear on my right hand, along with a solitaire diamond ring of huge sentimental value.

I've only a wedding ring, we married young, it still fits and I always wear it. I take my ring off to shower /do dishes, I don't like my finger to remain wet under my ring and become irritated.