Men should get engagement rings if they like

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KT67
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16 Aug 2020, 3:32 pm

Men who want wedding rings get them but I've never seen a guy with an engagement ring. Or an engagement ring big enough for a cis guy's finger or in a masculine style.

But women propose & it's seen as socially normal.

So a straight/bi/pan woman could propose then get him to buy her a ring...

That doesn't seem right to me. They should make engagement rings in all styles & sizes & whoever gets proposed to should get the ring.

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16 Aug 2020, 5:11 pm

They have existed commercially for a while now.

https://www.goldsmiths.co.uk/c/Jeweller ... ent-Rings/

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16 Aug 2020, 5:17 pm

I've heard of men also getting things like engagement watches (I guess they're fancy ones, not the waterproof kind ).

If the guy wants an engagement ring, or something similar, then it seems only fair.

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16 Aug 2020, 5:22 pm

Whoever proposes should buy the rings.

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16 Aug 2020, 5:28 pm

^ both rings ?

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16 Aug 2020, 5:40 pm

Dang, I should get on that! :lol:

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16 Aug 2020, 5:46 pm

^

Ooh! Are you planning to put a ring on it

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16 Aug 2020, 8:54 pm

^

Well, now that I know this is a thing, it's got me thinking :lol:

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16 Aug 2020, 11:43 pm

Now I feel like I should have waited for my wife to propose to me.

Not really a watch person

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16 Aug 2020, 11:48 pm

KT67 wrote:

I have the impression you have a lot of time on your hands. :mrgreen:

@Ferris.
First time I heard about engagement rings for men. :scratch:

I think I'll buy one for myself.
It will help fend off all those women who can't get enough of me. :mrgreen:

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16 Aug 2020, 11:52 pm

Oh_no_its_Ferris wrote:

^

Ooh! Are you planning to put a ring on it

OK,
I don't need to be asked twice to add this youtube video to the thread. :mrgreen:

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17 Aug 2020, 12:12 am

Feyokien wrote:

Now I feel like I should have waited for my wife to propose to me.

Not really a watch person

Engagement Lego set perhaps

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17 Aug 2020, 12:15 am

are engagement and wedding rings separate things? because i've seen wedding rings on men, at least for sure on one. it looked creepy, like a handcuff but for the finger. it was so ugly, i noticed it.
i tried to google wedding rings that look like the ugliest cuff possible but nothing in the images came up to match its ugliness.

normally these things don't stand out to me, as they are pretty unobtrusive, but the ring was just too ugly and his hands resembled my youngest brother's hands exactly- which i have never seen before or since--
and he was fiddling with the ugly ring a lot.

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17 Aug 2020, 12:19 am

blooiejagwa wrote:

are engagement and wedding rings separate things? because i've seen wedding rings on men, at least for sure on one.

Typically women get a more ornate ring at the time the engagement begins and less ornate rings are exchanged during the wedding ceremony.

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17 Aug 2020, 12:22 am

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In some countries like the US, men wear a wedding ring and women wear a wedding ring + an engagement ring (most of the time). See pic for example: