How important is an engagement ring to you?

Question

How important is an engagement ring to you?

Answer 1

i think is important because it represent the love and the relationship

Answer 2

It was very important to me. I didn't care what it was or how expensive but we had been living together so I wanted something that made the engagement/ wedding planning official.

Answer 3

It was important to me. I guess Im traditional and wanted the ring. It was also a sign that we were really engaged and planning the wedding. And it showed, relative to what he could afford (not in absolute dollars), a serious intent on my husbands part.

Its a piece of jewelry that I treasure.

Answer 4

It's just a token of commitment. I wouldn't have minded not getting one, but I'm glad he wanted to get me one. In my tradition, the wedding bands are used from the engagement onwards, just on the left hand, and transferred to the right hand after the wedding itself. So, no big rocks involved to start with.

Answer 5

It's important to me because of its symbolism. It shows the commitment towards the relationship and it tells others that you're engaged to be married. That being said, it doesn't necessarily have to be a diamond. I think it's become so commercialised and they know consumers are willing to buy into it that it's gotten a bit out of control. I would never ever spend $10,000 or so on a ring when we could put it towards something like a house deposit or something realistic like that. This girl that works at the optometrist I go to told me she was getting her boyfriend to get her a $10,000 ring and I nearly keeled over and fainted. It's ridiculous, and they're not even one of those rich families with heaps of money! I never wear my real engagement ring to work because I'm so scared I'll lose it so I wear this cubic-zirconia ring I got for like, $20 and everyone thinks that it's my real one, lol and that works for me.

Answer 6

somewhat important

Answer 7

I put up with mine because of what it means. I had been looking for a way to say "don't get me a ring" without saying "get around to proposing", and I didn't find one in time.

The other reason I put up with it is that he didn't spend too much. As a grad student he makes an effective 12K a year, and while he (properly) won't tell me how much it was, I'm fairly sure it was approaching 1K, which irks me, but is tolerable.

Answer 8

I would say it's important to me for a few reasons.  As you'll see in my other answers, I already own my engagement ring even though I'm far from being engaged.  It belonged to my great-grandmother.  My mother currently has it in her possession.  It's important to have one because if the man who will be my future husband actually gets it from my mother, I'll know I have the support and blessing from my family.  And I'll also know that my future husband understands how important family is to me.  The ring itself will be a tie to family I never got a chance to know.  That's what makes the ring so important and valuable to me.

Answer 9

I waited a heck of a long time for my husband to propose, so to me it was important, because i think it traditionally symoblises that you are "taken". which can be helpful if someone tries to chat you up!  But if we didnt have the money to be able to afford something, it wouldnt have mattered, because eventually you get a wedding ring to wear anyway.  It wasnt a giant rock or anything super expensive. It was within our budget and it was what we both liked and i have become very fond of my ring and feel naked without it.

Answer 10

The engagement ring to me is not that all important. No matter if the engagement ring is not of a real diamond or an expensive one but what matters is the meaning which the engagement ring gives to a relation.

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Answer 11

Not at all important. I have specifically asked to NOT receive one. I'd rather we spend the money on something important. We don't need a symbol of our love and our commitment. The actual love and commitment matter infinitely more. If we were freakishly wealthy and didn't need the money for anything else, then maybe I'd consider it, but it's just not something I want or need at this point in my life.

Answer 12

It was important to me.

Answer 13

To me, it was important to have one, but just to symbolize the commitment between the two of us.  But I am not one of those girls that has to have a giant real rock on her hand.  That money can be spent towards something that is really important, like a house or bedroom set or our savings account. All throughout our engagement I wore a $6 ring from Claires (even turned my finger green near the end!) and then my husband bought us a matching wedding set that is russian lab created diamonds, so they are not real either.  Everyone thinks they are and no one believes me when I tell them it cost $60 for all 3 of our rings, but none of that matters.  What matters is that my husband and I are in a committed and loving relationship together.  I wear the ring to symbolize that and to tell guys to back off becuase I am taken  ;)

Answer 14

For me, it has no importance what so ever. It is means more to my fiance.