Women NOT from / live in the US - do you wear your e-ring everyday?

[lily25]

No I don't. Over here it is customary to wear your e ring until you get married, and after the wedding you stick to the wedding band. I wear them together only when I'm out on a date with DH or other dressy occasion..

The engagement is a big hoopla, you get a priest, friends & family over the house of the future bride or groom, you get the engagement rings blessed etc... It's almost like a small wedding. The future bride gets plenty of jewelry and money from the guests, and particularly from her PIL.

This picture is from an engagement in a restaurant

(not mine, found it in the resturant's web site)

Ppl here wear yellow gold rings, but lately white gold are often seen. I'm the minority with platinum.

 

[noon]

In the Middle East mainly the gulf region when you get engaged you get a band (not the typical kind of engagement ring), that you wear on your right ring finger. Some people get plain wedding bands, others get diamond bands, some get two they can stack - but its always a band that you wear on your right hand. When you are officially married the ring gets switched to the left ring finger. Some women will get an engagement type ring for the wedding, others will get another wedding band, some will just stick to their original rings. But to answer your question you do not see that combo everyday, you will only see an engagement ring and wedding band worn together on special occasions and more often then not the "engagement ring" isn't really an engagement ring because it will have been purchased after they got married.

 

[Babilu]

I'm brazilian, but have lived in the US, and now live in Guatemala...
In Brazil women wear mostly their wedding band- alone.
Here in Guatemala they wear both...they are sort of americanized I guess...

 

[anne_antz]

Most of my friends in Thailand get 18K or plat + .from .75 above diamonds as an e-ring but as form of a dowry gift, it's usually 22-24K gold which they keep in a safe etc. Also it's common for an e-ring to be accompanied with a necklace or earring set too - this is also part of the gift.

With the e-ring, it's more common that color is not as important as clarity in Thailand. However, for my bestie's wedding, she received a 3ct D color VVS1 which was spectacular. SPECTACULAR. She keeps this in a safe though and wears her 1ct J VS2 promise ring as her everyday.

Yeab!! that how it is in Thailand!! but i got married here so i didnt get all that

 

[anne_antz]

I was just recently in Thailand and noticed that a majority of women don't wear their e-rings everyday - this includes some of my married friends. This is in China too (I've been living here since May). It's even so much more rare to see a e-ring and wedding ring combo like in the US.

In Thailand, the e-ring is presented in front of family members RIGHT BEFORE the wedding (usually a few hours before!) and engagements and weddings are almost always on the same day where you do the engagement in the AM and do the wedding reception in the PM. And even with that, I don't really see wedding rings presented, the girl gets an e-ring ring, and the man gets a wedding band.

What's customary where you're from?

Are u Thai ka?

 

[missD]

Yes, I'm Thai.

I got married in the US too (city hall) over 2 years ago but I went back to Thailand last year to do the Thai ceremony bits. So I kinda have 2 wedding dates!

My hubby is American.

 

[alessia70]

I'm from the Netherlands and it's not very common to see people with a diamond engagement ring, or engagement ring at all. Some of my friends who are engaged don't have a ring and just receive their wedding bands at the wedding ceremony. the wedding band is worn on the right hand. also 14k or 18k yellow gold is more common than white gold.

 

[graceybaby8]

I'm from Canada, and most of my coworkers wear their engagement rings everyday ... but a few dont (because we are in the medical/healthcare field)...
I know since I work in acute surgery, many of the doctors and nurses wear their e-rings with their necklaces ...

 

[black jade]

A haystack?
I would LOVE to hear this story.

I'm from the UK, and I don't have an engagement ring, but my mother wears her engagement ring everyday, on the same hand as her wedding ring. It's diamond, and most are, but I think coloured stones aren't particularly unusual for that generation.

One of my grandmothers just wore her engagement ring on special occasions, or to church on a Sunday. Her ring is just paste and she wore it with her wedding ring when she did wear it.

My other grandmother didn't have one, but wore her wedding ring everyday until she lost it in a haystack.

 

[enga4]

I met hubs in Greece, he' Albanian. I had to (shyly) explain the US solitaire-engagement ring bit when we were ring shopping, also the bit about our sets being white, not yellow (my pref).

His family (mom and sisters) don't have e-rings, just thick plain gold bands. I got the jackpot w. white gold set w. a flawless (but low-set and small) solitaire e-ring and a wedding ring w a small diamond embedded (matching his). He'd wanted yellow gold at first and then wanted a yellow wedding band and white e-ring for me; he didn't know I'd be wearing them together! When we moved to the US, he noticed the big e-rings here and said he wanted to get me a bigger one some day to go along w. the custom here!

 

[Chic Chemist]

I'm from the UK - I and my married friends have solitaire diamonds for engagement rings (mine is round brilliant, one is a beautiful oval and the other is princess cut) but none of them are larger than about 0.5 carat. We all have platinium or white gold settings - the friend with the oval e-ring has a white gold wedding ring because the price of platinum went up just before her wedding and the budget had got a bit stretched, so she wears her platinum e-ring on her right hand.

I have noticed that my generation love white metals and clean, simple styles, whereas the older generation mostly have yellow gold and often more fussy settings. Most younger women here wear both rings together if they have an e-ring, but quite a few just have wedding rings, especially older women. Also the style with a coloured stone (often sapphire) surrounded by small diamonds is very popular among the generation up from me - it's the style Prince Charles gave to Diana. My grandma had a ring that style that my grandpa bought her with his retirement payout (she always said her 1939 e-ring was too small - a woman after all your hearts, I think!) which I will wear on my right hand when I get married. Grandma only ever wore her diamond rings for special occasions though.

My mum wears a tiny silver and enamel ring with her yellow gold plain wedding ring - my dad never bought her a proper e-ring, but her got her the silver one at an art gallery or somewhere before they were married. The silver is all worn away and misshapen, but I can't imagine her wearing anything else.

Most women I've seen also seem to have plain wedding bands without diamonds, including my contemporaries, although I will have a tiny thin channel set half eternity band when I marry next June. My mum was surprised when I told her about it, saying you aren't supposed to have an eternity style band for a wedding ring. I love it though!

But to get back to the point, most of the younger generation wear engagement rings every day, but quite a few older women will only wear them on special occasions. I never ever take mine off as I have a habit of losing jewellery the minute I put it in a 'safe place'...

Apologies for going on a bit :shame:

 

[Nelly4]

I'm from Australia and I think most people I know wear their engagement ring every day - I know I do. When you get married, obviously you get a wedding band and wear that with your engaement ring everyday too.

 

[alessia70]

I'm from the UK - I and my married friends have solitaire diamonds for engagement rings (mine is round brilliant, one is a beautiful oval and the other is princess cut) but none of them are larger than about 0.5 carat. We all have platinium or white gold settings - the friend with the oval e-ring has a white gold wedding ring because the price of platinum went up just before her wedding and the budget had got a bit stretched, so she wears her platinum e-ring on her right hand.

I have noticed that my generation love white metals and clean, simple styles, whereas the older generation mostly have yellow gold and often more fussy settings. Most younger women here wear both rings together if they have an e-ring, but quite a few just have wedding rings, especially older women. Also the style with a coloured stone (often sapphire) surrounded by small diamonds is very popular among the generation up from me - it's the style Prince Charles gave to Diana. My grandma had a ring that style that my grandpa bought her with his retirement payout (she always said her 1939 e-ring was too small - a woman after all your hearts, I think!) which I will wear on my right hand when I get married. Grandma only ever wore her diamond rings for special occasions though.

My mum wears a tiny silver and enamel ring with her yellow gold plain wedding ring - my dad never bought her a proper e-ring, but her got her the silver one at an art gallery or somewhere before they were married. The silver is all worn away and misshapen, but I can't imagine her wearing anything else.

Most women I've seen also seem to have plain wedding bands without diamonds, including my contemporaries, although I will have a tiny thin channel set half eternity band when I marry next June. My mum was surprised when I told her about it, saying you aren't supposed to have an eternity style band for a wedding ring. I love it though!

But to get back to the point, most of the younger generation wear engagement rings every day, but quite a few older women will only wear them on special occasions. I never ever take mine off as I have a habit of losing jewellery the minute I put it in a 'safe place'...

Apologies for going on a bit :shame:

I'm curious, how come it's not common to have eternity style band for a wedding ring?

 

[Expat]

I'm curious, how come it's not common to have eternity style band for a wedding ring?

Because we're waiting to get another ring

An eternity band for us Brits is usually a celebration ring for either having a baby or surviving the marriage for a certain number of years It depends on the couple & finances.

I wear my engagement ring every day. However, it's on my right hand because it's too fancy to go with a wedding band.



I guess I'm in the "older generation" as Chic Chemist says . It's yellow gold, as are most of my rings. White gold turns brown on me and I don't like platinum.

I also think my generation (I can't comment for all Brits, of course) - we don't seem to go for the massive carat size & bling. I guess we're happy to get what we can I don't know any Brits in my circle with mahoosive rocks.

My hubby is tight (won't spend money) so I went for a wedding ring with diamonds in it - NOT an eternity ring, as I'm ever hopeful ! I moved my RH ring to my left to go with the wedding ring. It has significance to us both.

 

[missD]

So interesting to hear these stories. Any one from India with stories they can share? I've been told / seen pictures of Indian weddings and it's so elaborate!