Are engagement rings still necessary?

By Nygeria George
October 1, 2015

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Engagement rings are a huge part of the love lives of our society. Creative Commons

Everyone has their own perspectives on engagement rings. Engagement rings are a form of a promising, everlasting future with your partner.

In some cases, people can consider engagement rings as a symbolic instrument. There are various reasons why people decide to actually spend thousands of dollars on a ring, too. Engagement rings are a momentous promise. Looking forward, you expect to have the wedding band of your life. That is what means the most.

Proposing should be a happy time. It is the promising moment in time to have an everlasting future with your partner. Usually when you propose, you express true feelings, love and happiness that you have towards your significant other. When you truly love someone, you honestly feel it from inside. Love is something no one can explain. It is a prominent feeling.

Love can make you feel like you have never felt before.

Love can have you doing things you never experienced.

Love is genuine.

Love can have you feeling like heaven.

Love is forever.

The symbolic instrument itself is sacred. You should cherish your engagement ring. Your lover specifically picked something special in hopes of making you smile.

Along with engagement rings comes tradition. For some time people felt the need to have rings during the proposal phase. This is not always necessary. The point of proposing is reassuring your commitment, acknowledging how you feel towards your significant other and being aware that this is the person you cannot live without.

Engagement rings are to inform others of your monogamy. However, the engagement is not for them, it is for yourself. To actually be married matters the most. Wedding bands are emblematic.

During your engagement, you find out many aspects about your partner also. You begin to expand your horizon with one another. You notice things you may not have noticed before, and you learn more about each other. You should understand your partner and be willing to do things that are above or beneath your standards. Realizing your life will be changing forever can be difficult. In the process, you should enjoy every moment of it. Knowing you are with the person you love the most should allow you to be fearless. By fearless, I mean you two can do the impossible.

You can view engagement rings many different ways. Overall it depends on the person herself. Having a ring can enforce a promise and without a ring, the proposal itself can serve the exact same purpose.

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