GTKY: Engagement ring/wedding ring

[flojo973]

Inspired by the WTO post - it seems like everyone's engagement/wedding ring is their favorite piece of jewelry.  

What does yours look like?  Bonus points for pictures.
How did DH propose to you?

[youdontsay]

PDNQ

ETA proposal story:

It was December 2013 and it was snowing out. I got home before MH did and put on my sweats and started playing Xbox. MH came home and comes running in and goes "Babe, did you see the Christmas lights outside? Get the dog's coat and let's go look at them."

I knew something was up because MH hates the holidays, but I obliged, I go down to the basement to get the dog's coat and I hear him rifling around his desk so I really knew. I wanted to change out of my sweats but then I'm thinking to myself "well, then he'll know that I know and it'll be weird."

We go outside and looking at the Christmas lights in the snow and MH says there's something wrong with the dog's collar so he gets down on the ground and pulls out the ring box and asks if I want to spend the rest of my life with him and our dog. Of course I started screaming, scared neighbors and a snow plow drove by. It was so romantic. Seriously, I loved it.

Also, I don't know why my pic is so big, I can't fix it.

*POOF*

[shemarie82]

I'm definitely not a hand model.

I am the proposer. We went away for the weekend. I had a shutterfly book of pictures of us together made. We went to dinner at a brewery and gave her the book. When she was done looking through it, I had the ring box open waiting for her. One of my favorite life moments!

[joy]

[pbandj714]

Here's mine! DH proposed to me when we were moving into our first apartment together. I went out to grab lunch and when I came back, he had painted "will you marry me?" on the wall.

[flojo973]

youdontsay, your proposal story is so sweet!
joy, your ring is gorgeous!

[getzystark]

What? AW my ring? You don't have to ask me twice.

H proposed at my house. He called me upstairs and I thought he was calling me up to tell me a dog had barfed or something. He sounded panicked.

He dropped to one knee and asked me. I told him if he did anything in public I'd be embarrassed and it wasn't his style either, so privately at home was perfect. He then surprised me with a fancy brunch with our families and my BFF and her husband who are family to me. Then he had another surprise get together with all of our friends later that day. He knows that my favorite thing in the world is having my favorite people around me, so it was perfect!!



I picked out the setting and gave ideas for the band, but H went and purchased the ring later.

[LadyNymeria]

DNQ - will **poof** later:

I told him I preferred a round center stone and he did the rest. The top band was a surprise present that he gave me when we got to Aruba the first day of our honeymoon.

**poof**

We went to Newport for our anniversary and went for a walk on the cliff walk behind all those mansions. We got to a really pretty spot on the rocks and he proposed. It was perfect!

[witchywoman]

Nothing special. He didn't even have the ring yet. We were laying in bed on our anniversary and he just asked. I got my ring later for Christmas. 

[summerdonna]

No fancy story here either. He called me into the spare bedroom where he had the ring and was on his knee. We picked out the setting together because I used a stone my mom had so I knew it was coming.

[requiressnacks]

Love all these beautiful rings!

I love my engagement ring but I think I'm going to get myself a new band for my anniversary this year.

MH and I were on a casino night away and I had just gotten back from the spa and he threw on some John Legend and got down on bended knee. It was private and perfect.



ETA: found a pic of the ring.

[flojo973]

DH proposed in Central Park (thankfully at night so nobody was around)

[ironbaby]

*DNQ*

H told me he was taking me somewhere for my birthday (but a week early). I protested because I had to coach that weekend, but he had already cleared it with my head coach. He told me to dress for a nice night out and walking in the woods. Random...

We got in the car and he still wouldn't tell me where we were going, but he pulled up to the Biltmore Estate a couple hours later. The gate attendant greeted him by name, which was really odd to me. We arrived at the Inn (which is beautiful), and they kept addressing us as Mr. and Mrs. Hlastname. So I started getting suspicious, but he insisted this was my birthday getaway.

We had a beautiful dinner at the Inn, at a private table overlooking a garden, with the moon rising, framed by this beautiful tall window right by our table. Then he asked me to walk with him through the vineyard. The whole time, I am nervously anticipating a proposal, but nothing happens.

We get back to our room, and there is champagne waiting. I am now convinced that since it did not happen, this is NOT a proposal, and I should stop ruining an otherwise wonderful weekend.

The next morning I dress in yoga pants and hiking shoes (because walk in the woods, right?). He walks me out under this big beautiful tree overlooking the mountains, and pulls out a picnic basket packed by the chefs at Biltmore. I am shocked, then he drops to one knee and starts saying wonderful things that I cannot remember. I was just crying and nodding and bouncing.

[ellabee]

Here's mine. We were on a vacation in the Bahamas and DH had arranged for a friend of his family to take us out on a catamaran for a sunset cruise.

[Rama]

Sept 2, 2015 9:37:40 GMT -5 ironbaby said:

*DNQ*

This story is making me have some serious feels. :')

EDIT: Too early to follow directions, sorry.

[summerdonna]

This thread has given me motivation to finally get my rings resized! Due to weight gain I can only fit the wedding band so that is all I have worn for months. Time for a resize so I can wear both.

[sleepymonkey]

MH had me meet him at the beach on Christmas Eve 2007. We went for a walk and then came up on a blanket, which he lifted up to show that he had "Marry Me?" spelled out in shells. I knew it was going to happen because I had actually given him an ultimatum of get married or move on by the end of that year so when he asked me to meet him at the beach, I knew what option he chose.
Here are my rings (and MH's) from our wedding photos:

[joy]

Sept 2, 2015 9:41:19 GMT -5 summerdonna said:

This thread has given me motivation to finally get my rings resized! Due to weight gain I can only fit the wedding band so that is all I have worn for months. Time for a resize so I can wear both.

Doooooo iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit!

I can't not wear my rings.  I feel naked and weird without them.  They are on 99.9% of the time.

[Rama]

Sept 2, 2015 9:44:15 GMT -5 joy said:

Sept 2, 2015 9:41:19 GMT -5 summerdonna said:

This thread has given me motivation to finally get my rings resized! Due to weight gain I can only fit the wedding band so that is all I have worn for months. Time for a resize so I can wear both.

Doooooo iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit!

I can't not wear my rings.  I feel naked and weird without them.  They are on 99.9% of the time.

Same here. I get anxious when I'm not wearing my ring (barring water-related activities like showering, washing dishes, swimming, etc). I fiddle with it a lot during my day.

[summerdonna]

Sept 2, 2015 9:44:15 GMT -5 joy said:

Sept 2, 2015 9:41:19 GMT -5 summerdonna said:

This thread has given me motivation to finally get my rings resized! Due to weight gain I can only fit the wedding band so that is all I have worn for months. Time for a resize so I can wear both.

Doooooo iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit!

I can't not wear my rings.  I feel naked and weird without them.  They are on 99.9% of the time.

I know I need to get on it! If I couldn't wear the wedding band I would have done it a long time ago so at least my finger only feels half naked.

[shemarie82]

Sept 2, 2015 9:46:54 GMT -5 Rama said:

Sept 2, 2015 9:44:15 GMT -5 joy said:

Doooooo iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit!

I can't not wear my rings.  I feel naked and weird without them.  They are on 99.9% of the time.

Same here. I get anxious when I'm not wearing my ring (barring water-related activities like showering, washing dishes, swimming, etc). I fiddle with it a lot during my day.

I take mine off at night as well as water type stuff.  If I forget them in the morning, I panic.  I notice that I rub my thumb on it a lot during the day when I don't have it on.

[acorn99]

Sept 2, 2015 9:44:15 GMT -5 joy said:

Sept 2, 2015 9:41:19 GMT -5 summerdonna said:

This thread has given me motivation to finally get my rings resized! Due to weight gain I can only fit the wedding band so that is all I have worn for months. Time for a resize so I can wear both.

Doooooo iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit!

I can't not wear my rings.  I feel naked and weird without them.  They are on 99.9% of the time.

I had to get a stone replaced on my wedding band and didnt have it for two weeks. It felt so weird.

[sleepymonkey]

Sept 2, 2015 9:59:45 GMT -5 acorn99 said:

Sept 2, 2015 9:44:15 GMT -5 joy said:

Doooooo iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit!

I can't not wear my rings.  I feel naked and weird without them.  They are on 99.9% of the time.

I had to get a stone replaced on my wedding band and didnt have it for two weeks. It felt so weird.

I broke a prong on my engagement ring less than a month after my wedding. My wedding band looks really strange worn alone so I couldn't even wear that. I was a very unhappy newlywed for the 10 days it took to get it fixed!

[acorn99]

Here is mine!

[Ruca]

So while DH and I were still dating we "got married" totally a drunken night with friends, at this gazebo by our apartments. Few years later DH and I were on our way to a baseball game, he parked at our old apartments and said he needed to use the bathroom (restaurant near by) So we got out and started walking but instead he took me to that same gazebo and got down on his knee and asked me It's in the town I grew up in and we ended up buying our house in this town too! I can't wait to take DD there when she's a little older and tell her the story!

[goldenlove3]

Here are our rings. Ignore the fact that my rings are backwards. I forgot to swap them after the ceremony.

H proposed to me at a gazebo overlooking a small lake. It was the place we had our first kiss.

[pinkcat]

I love these!

Proposal Story- It was our 5 year anniversary and we stayed downtown to celebrate. When I unwrapped his present, it was a large white box he had decorated with pictures of our first year together. Inside that box was another box, decorated with pictures of our 2nd year together. This continued until I got to the smallest box, that said "To the future" and had pictures of the house we had just bought together that week...inside that box was the ring!



I also love this ring from him for our 1 year anniversary. He had almost bought it as a wedding gift for my "something blue" but knew I had a special ring from my godmother I was wearing, so he decided to save it and give it as a 1 year anniversary present. Besides my wedding ring it's my favorite thing I have!

[aprilz81]

The day before we left on our first vacation together DH asked me to meet him at the mall for last minute vacation items. I was confused because 1) DH hates to shop and 2) DH works at across the street from a mall so no need for me to meet him there. When I get there he tells me he stopped at a bar for a pre-vacation drink and for me to meet him there. He was at the bar (also a restaurant) where we had our first date so I had an idea of what was coming.

He was at "our table" and when I sat down he was fiddling with something in his hands and started chattering (which he doesn't do). I don't remember most of what he said because I was nervous and excited, but it was something like "I knew this would happen on our first date... So, you wanna get hitched?"

Here is my engagement ring from our engagement pictures. I requested an oval cut and DH did the rest.



Here is the full set, along with DH's band on our wedding day.

[joy]

Sept 2, 2015 9:46:54 GMT -5 Rama said:

Sept 2, 2015 9:44:15 GMT -5 joy said:

Doooooo iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit!

I can't not wear my rings.  I feel naked and weird without them.  They are on 99.9% of the time.

Same here. I get anxious when I'm not wearing my ring (barring water-related activities like showering, washing dishes, swimming, etc). I fiddle with it a lot during my day.

Meh.  I wear my ring doing all the things.  It's 80 years old, has been worn to do all the things in that time period (by my grandmom and now me) and it's beautiful.

[aprilz81]

Sept 2, 2015 10:12:24 GMT -5 joy said:

Sept 2, 2015 9:46:54 GMT -5 Rama said:

Same here. I get anxious when I'm not wearing my ring (barring water-related activities like showering, washing dishes, swimming, etc). I fiddle with it a lot during my day.

Meh.  I wear my ring doing all the things.  It's 80 years old, has been worn to do all the things in that time period (by my grandmom and now me) and it's beautiful.

Same here (minus the age).  I take my rings off if I'm snorkeling or doing something super duper messy/gross (like making meatloaf or painting walls).