May I enquire..

I also lost my ring but the H still in my keeping 59 years on.
A few years ago I had some "spare money* and I bought myself a lovely solitare Diamond ring.
I hardly ever wear it, it just doesn't replace the original although it cost much more more.

Lovely, ann.

My engagement ring cost £90 (or so DH told me!!) and was second hand, but not old. There was no purchase tax on it because it was preowned. It is a cluster of diamonds in a flower shape and about 20 years later I lost one of the smaller stones which cost over £100 to replace.

I'm loving this thread, ann, thank you!

on our way to photograph a wedding December 1974 we stopped to look in the jewellers window and OH decided we'd just buy a ring while we had time...lolHe was 19 ,I was 20 and we got married 7 months later .So I suppose I was wearing work clothes ,a suit probably my Donegal tweed on which was a firm favourite it had a lovely flared skirt,and a green tie neck blouse ...I only think that because I had about 5 green tie neck blouses to go with that suit

No engagement, but a few years after we were married my MIL gave my husband a signet ring that had been her father’s. As my husband doesn’t wear rings we had it made into a beautiful diamond ring for me, which everyone assumes was an engagement ring. My wedding ring was donated by my stepfather who was the manager of a jewellers at the time. The only other ring I wear is a ‘half eternity’ ring bought by my husband, with my daughters when they were small, for £79 from Argos - they were so excited.

No dress and no photos ( I should think it was rare then for most people.)
Mr Lemongrove proposed as we were sitting in his car, somewhere in Wakefield ( not the most romantic spot.)
He did buy me a beautiful engagement ring later though, which I still wear a lot.

I was 17. He did ask my Dad first though. Eloped the following year as they thought it would nt last & we wanted to be together but 50+ years later we're still going strong....

I think the consensus is that we were a modest generation with no expectation of fuss and expense and happy with our lot.

Never got engaged, couldn't afford an engagement ring as well as a wedding ring, times were hard in the olden day! Finally got the ring after we'd been married many years.

Can't remember clothes, but bought ring at H Samuel, and was allowed to wear it whilst on the top deck of a bus, going past the gasworks.

1981 we got engaged at a local pub. I havent a clue what i wore probably jeans.ive lost the ring and the hubby. Its all in the past

Eugenie didn't buy the dress for the engagement. She first wore for an interview with Harper's Bazaar in 2016 and has been photographed wearing in 2017 as well. The shoes are new.

I don't remember what I wore for either of my engagements, but it would have been something new for the first one. We went for a meal with our parents the first time and just had a meal on our own the second time. There's no photos.

Mr P asked me to marry him 8 days after we had started "walking out" !

We actually sort of officially got engaged quite a while later, in the buying the ring sense, at Cribbs Causeway as he was driving back from collecting me when I had been away on business for about 4 days, (first time apart after moving in together).

Not a clue what I was wearing, but he was wearing what is known as a "Site Executive Hi Viz Jacket"

Such a style icon, is Mr P.

Intelligent and handsome man proposed around 0400. 0900 saw couple queuing at jeweller's door. 1010 saw same man boarding train for far country. Wedding successfully took place six months later. Hallelujah!

Only got engage once to my 1st H, small sapphire & diamond ring, got married with his Grandmother's ring, he demanded wedding ring back when we divorced kept engagement ring (gave it to step-son from my 2nd marriage).

2nd H, no engagement ring, think he bought wedding ring, married 18 months & then he left me & 5 year old DD, we were together for about 10 years.

3rd DH, we didn't get engaged, I chose & paid for wedding ring. Almost 23 years together, almost 21 years married to the love of my life. I have been widowed almost 5 years now but still proudly wear my wedding ring.

Can't remember many details of 1 & 2 but 3 I have my wedding photos. Can't remember where my dresses came from but certainly didn't cost £2000

I got engaged on Brighton Pier when I was 18 in 1983 wearing some jeans and a top!! Probably from Chelsea Girl costing around 5 quid!!! Nothing fancy ?? Still with my Prince Charming though ?

DH asked my Dad for permission, my Dad said ‘If you can handle her mate you go ahead’
We went in to town on the bus, bought a diamond solitaire for £23 from Samuels, had a coffee in the Kardomah, got the bus home. Next day went out in his little green mini and he took my photo flashing the diamond wearing a yellow and black tartan mini kilt and yellow jumper. Got engaged 1969 and married 1970. Small hiccough in 1984, worked hard to work things out because we both wanted to and have been happy ever since.

Told His parents we were getting married in 6 weeks ( we had known each other 6 months ) as he was going to work on D.Phil in U.S. No money for a ring but FIL produced lovely sapphire, so I used to say I was engaged to him. No photos or special dresses. Still together after 52 years.

Oh Legs, your post made me cry. But at least you had the love of your life for nearly 23 years.

We went to a small restaurant it was a Thursday and he passed the ring over as we didn't want any fuss but was seen by the owner we were given a bottle of sparkling wine and the owner told the 6 other people and they clapped us. It was so embarrassing.
Still married 39 years and still the love of my life.

Forgot to say we have no photos and cannot remember what I wore.

As we’d been living together for some years and were in our 30’s we didn’t get engaged. We just decided we’d get married and got on with it, best decision I ever made, never did like fuss.

Mary Quant designed my outfit and Snowdon took the photographs.
I don't remember the cost, Pater paid.

Actually when I got engaged I was naked in bed with my future husband and we only got engaged so we could live together. I thought my parents would mind us living together less if we were engaged! Picked my own ring. Married almost 32 years!

Told you I was common and not posh!