Questions and thoughts on rings

[harmmony]

This is obviously just my personal opinion, but I find the whole concept of the engagement ring to be a complete load of you know what. I would flat out refuse to wear one unless, and only maybe then, if my fiance wore one as well. My "ring" finger has absolutely no significance to me and I wear a variety of rings on that finger, it's just another finger to me. I would wear a wedding ring, I guess, but I really don't see the need to have a physical symbol to represent the commitment I have made in marriage, it's between God, my husband and I. Besides I can only wear rings - which I love to wear, some of which might look like an engagement ring, I don't know - for short periods otherwise they get uncomfortable, so I wouldn't wear my wedding ring that often if I owned one anyway.

I see far too many people wasting huge amounts of money on useless diamonds when they are planning to start a life together and the money could be used for much more important things (I hold the same belief for expensive wedding ceremonies - unless you have bundles of money to throw away). It really makes me shake my head in wonder, my feeling is that expensive pieces of jewellery do not make your commitment to each other any stronger or more real, so I find them irrelevant.

I really don't think you can make assumptions about any ring a person might - or might not - be wearing on their ring finger, lots of people who are single, and looking, wear rings on that finger and lots of people who are married don't, for whatever reason. So ring or not, I don't see a problem in a asking someone what their marital/relationship status is, since the rule is - there are no rules.