Do you still wear your engagement ring?

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Those are beautiful rings…very pretty precious stones too! I agree it’s neat to see something beyond diamonds…

I would like to have the three-diamond ring for our 20th anniversary…The ‘past, present, and future’ diamonds is what the three represent…they are sooooo pretty…
 
I sometimes wear my engagement ring. I conceived six weeks after we married so my engagement ring no longer fit about halfway through the pregnancy. We bought a cheap, bigger wedding band to wear during the remainder of my pregnancy. That fit for a couple more months, but during the last two months or so of my pregnancy, I didn’t wear any rings. Now my son is six months old and I wear my wedding band always. Each time I’ve put on my engagement ring, the diamond ring has caught on him or scratched him. 😦 I keep wondering how other moms must be more coordinated than am I. So, these days, I wear my engagement ring sometimes, when I want to be extra pretty, but only during the daytime and I remember to take it off at night (since I sleep with my baby and am more likely to scratch him in the dark).
 
I always wear mine together with my wedding band, the wedding band doesn’t look too good w/o the eng. ring. Dh purchased them as a set of 3 rings: the 2 wedding bands and the eng. ring. They look good together, but sometimes the eng. ring does get stuck on linens, comforters or sometimes I stratch Dh w/it… :o I’d post a picture of both but I don’t have a way to transfer them to my work computer. I have this old picture but it’s kind of blurry…
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I wear my engagement ring once, maybe twice a year. Been doing this for 10 years. The ring is beautiful and I appreciate my husband picking it out for me, but I’m not a jewerly kind of person. My wedding band even annoys me (but not the meaning, of course).
 
I wear mine almost all the time. I am a network administrator and well, sometimes I actually have to take apart equipment and repair it. Since gold conducts so well… I take them off. During my first marriage I was an electronic tech and constantly had my hands inside of equipment…sometimes I got to play with very high voltages too… (it’s the amps that will kill ya). During that time I almost always wore them on a chain in my pocket or around my neck(tucked in of course). ohhhh… for the other poster…soldered
 
When I first got married (four years this August!!! woo-hoo!!!) I wore my engagement ring with my wedding band all the time, but as time went on, I realized it would get bumped a lot when I’d be cleaning or just when I was out doing everyday stuff. So, now I wear it on Sundays and when we got out. I’ll sometimes wear it to work as well as when we attend family functions. But will always wear my band unless I forget to put it back on after taking a shower. I feel so naked without it.
 
I’ve had to take mine off. One prong is broken and another is bent, and we don’t have funds for a repair.
 
All the stones gradually fell out of my cheap cubic zirconia ring. I chose a v shaped wedding band so they would fit together, but now don’t have the engagement ring to go with it.
 
Mine is welded to my wedding band, and then my anniversary band was welded to it, so yes, I wear them all, all the time. 😃 And, my wedding band was one of those designed to go around the engagement ring, it all looks like a flower when it’s put together. And it matches hubby’s wedding ring too (both have emeralds and diamonds). I love it. It’s not big, but it’s very unique.
 
I only wear my simple plain band, which has come off only when it hurts (like the last two months of pregnancy, and an occasional night of too much queso or something…). I don’t wear jewelry often, and my diamond is a hand-me-down from my husband’s mom who is much more flashy with the sparkley stuff than I am. I actually even suggested we trade the diamond in for something smaller and take the money and go on a trip with it. That was a pretty stupid suggestion, as I became aware that it’s important to my husband that I’m wearing his family heirloom… 😊 Live and learn… I do love my gigantic rock though, it’s an eye catcher when I wear it out.
 
Convert_in_99 said:
**Hello Everyone! 👋 **

**Ever since I was married almost 16 months ago, I have worn my engagement ring less and less. It gets in my way, gets caught in/on things, I have injured myself more than once, and always fear injuring others. Other times I just feel plain flashy with it, the wedding band is more plain and simple like me. So, ****I basically don’t wear it anymore at all, save maybe the most special of occasions. **

**I realize I am MARRIED now, no longer engaged. It is not needed to show that I belong to someone anymore. So, I just wear my wedding band and that I NEVER take off! Never ever! :nope: My husband is fine with this, as long as I wear my wedding band, he could care less. **

**I am wondering what other women do. :confused: What is your personal preference? :confused: **

**Thanks! God bless you! 🙂 **
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I’d wear mine but it doesn’t fit. Everytime I get close to getting it back on, I get pregnant again. I seem stuck with my claddagh ring my husband got me to serve as my pregnancy wedding ring. :rolleyes: I’d love to get my wedding/engagement ring back on (they’re stuck together).😦
 
I used to wear mine all the time, but, when dd was 4, I took her to the park and played with her in the sandbox, swings, teeter totter, monkey bars, etc. When we got home, I noticed my diamond was gone. Went back to the playground, sifted through the sand, looked all over the ground under the swings, and other appliances. Every visit thereafter involved looking for the diamond. Never did find it. We were uninsured and I couldn’t imagine spending the money for a new stone. Still have a pretty gold ring with a hole where a diamond should be.

When my knuckles started to swell with age and I couldn’t wear my wedding ring any longer, my mom gave me her lovely antique engagement & wedding ring set. I wear the wedding band all the time, but the engagement ring only on the most special of occasions for fear of losing it.
 
I’m really embarrassed to say this, but I lost my engagement ring!! I was mortified when I realized this and couldn’t find it. DH was awesome, though, when I told him he just said that he thought we were going to get something nicer later anyway (it wasn’t expensive, but I loved it)!! What a guy! So, I have my wedding ring that stays home most of the time, since I can’t wear it to work. I don’t like having my finger bare, so we got an inexpenisve gold band that I can wear to work.
 
Only rarely. The diamond is a pear shaped (which I just adore!) but it’s on its own bridge so it sits above the band itself. Because it’s so prominante, it will get snagged on pretty much anything. And many times I’ve accidentally cut my children while getting them toweled off after a bath, helping them change clothes, changing dipes, whatever just because the point of the diamond is so high. It’s been bent up in a 90 degree angle once before and it’s already sitting at about a 30 degree angle and I’m just so scared it’ll break. So I don’t wear it unless I’m dressed up.
 
My wedding band cannot be worn without my engagement ring. Well, it can, but it looks terrible.

I got a fairly unique engagement ring. It has a marquise-shaped 1/4 carat diamond. The gold band on it has a sculpted ridge, and it flares above and below the diamond to accent its points. When it came time to get a wedding ring to go with it, the jeweler designed it to fit under the band of the engagement ring, and cut notches in the underside so that they interlock. There are two triangular clusters of round diamond baguettes that fit next to the flares on the engagement ring. If I wore the wedding band without the engagement ring, the only thing in the middle is the fairly ugly triangular support structure that connects the two clusters.

Since I have always worn it, the raised center stone has not really been a problem. I am used to it. But also, at 1/4 carat, it’s pretty small.
 
Yes, always, because my engagement ring is welded to my wedding band…my wedding band is a wrap for my engagement ring.

However, I sometimes wish it wasn’t, mainly because I have a small baby now and I’m afraid of scratching him. I haven’t yet, but I scratched a little boy who ran past me (although it left no mark and he only paused for a moment before running after his friend) and I find I’m constantly getting it caught on the fabrics of the couch and my bed sheets, etc. It happens more and more, esp. when I’m holding the baby.

But I’d rather wear both than neither :). Maybe someday I’ll have an anniversary band that’s all flat…of course, by then, I’ll probably have grown children ;)!
 
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