Re: Wedding & Engagement Rings & stuff

[Guest guest]

> <<> Have your DH's name engraved next to wedding date and your name on

his.>>

> This is common practice in Denmark and I always felt slightly weird about

the fact that ours don't have the name/date engraved. Also in Denmark you

don't use a engagement ring and a wedding band. What happens is that when

you get engaged you get what we here would look upon as a wedding band then

have it engraved with name and date and then wear it on your left hand, then

when you marry you have it engraved with the date of the marriage and then

wear it on your right hand.. My girl friends in Denmark think it is very

weird that I wear my bands English style but they both love the idea of a

" proper " engagement ring (needless to say I plumped for the English version

as you get 2 rings that way LOL)

>

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> Lonnie Phoebe & Eloisa's mama

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The Greeks & Cypriots do this too - wedding band on left hand when engaged;

moved to right hand when married.

I wear my wedding band on left hand; DH on right hand (confused the priest

at the wedding!!!)

The Greek Orthodox wedding service has as it's first bit an 'engagement'

part and then the marriage part.

Some couples have an engagement service in church when they get engaged and

when they get married do the remaining service.

I think this may be more common in Cyprus - Sue H, do you know?

I don't have an engagement ring. When we announced our marriage so many

people asked 'when did he ask or when did it happen'.... we never asked each

other, just decided now was the time.

I guess I just don't like the term 'being engaged' - don't know why, one of

those things.

We'd been together for 8 years so really felt, for the few months before the

wedding, it seemed silly (to me) to suddenly say 'we're engaged'. It's just

the term i don't like.

I didn't have a burning desire for a solitaire ring. I was given a ring

earlier, much plainer and more meaningful to me. This is not to say I

wouldn't like a ring with stones of some sort !!!

It also used to annoy me when I was much younger and wore a ring with

turquoise centre on my ring finger (which my mother gave me), I was

constantly asked if I was engaged - I didn't even have a boyfriend at the

time! Surely your ring finger is for other than engagement/wedding rings??

ooops - didn't mean to go on about it!

Janet

Athens