by Dawn Hawkins

Created on: June 22, 2010

Getting engaged to be married is a very special time in your life. One of the traditions to getting engaged is the diamond ring. The diamond ring is a way of showing love and the significance you feel the marriage proposal is. Without purchasing an engagement ring, you are leaving out one of the most important steps in the wedding tradition. Do you really need a ring in order to be engaged? No, you probably don’t “need” a ring.

The ring is a symbol of love and commitment. It tells the rest of the world that the person wearing it has a strong commitment to the other person. Most women do expect to get an engagement ring if you are proposing to her. Something just seems to be missing when you don’t have an engagement ring to go along with the proposal. It seems half thought out rather than being a serious issue. Marriage, it doesn’t get any more serious than that.

An engagement ring is a nice way to top off the entire engagement process. People will look at the ring finger just to see how much he cares about her. People look to see the size of the diamond as well. That is because we are a society given to status. The bigger the diamond, the more status you have, or so according to the world in general. Having an engagement ring does hold special meaning no matter what the size though. It is the one piece of jewelry, other than the wedding band itself, that she will treasure for the rest of her life. The only difference is, the engagement ring often comes of the finger because of necessity. For instance, once you are married you may want to have children. If that is the case, the diamond ring can cause the baby to be scratched. The diamond engagement ring is removed because of that possibility and often never returns to the finger.

Even with that said, the diamond engagement ring is definitely a major part of the engagement process. You can be engaged without one, but it is much more fun to have one. This is the main piece of the engagement that tells others that you will be getting married. It makes the process much more fun if you have the engagement ring to go along with the marriage proposal. If you don’t have enough money to purchase some type of engagement ring, you have to really think about whether you are financially prepared to be married anyway.

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