Strangest wedding/engagement ring

Teddy917 · May 2013

I got a real laugh out of my soontobe husband's wedding band. He refuses to let me spend a dime on a ring for him since I'm looking for a job right now. I insisted that I still wanted him to wear a ring. I joked that I didn't care if it was a twist tie. He goes to make a sandwich and doesn't put the twist tie back on the bag. I point it out and he says "But it's my wedding band." Add to that the fact that he doesn't remember which finger the wedding band is supposed to go on and I nearly bust a gut.
So has anybody else seen an unusual ring? Or just a funny ring story in general?

harper0813 · May 2013

My FI wants to wear a skinny band. We're talking 2mm. Like, the size I'm getting. He tried on a WOMEN'S ring over the weekend at Macy's and loved it. I laughed at him so hard and he got really embarrassed and mad at me. It just looked really funny on his hairy knuckles.

AddieCake · May 2013

My husband's parents were high school sweethearts and working at Burger King when he proposed to her with an onion ring with a dot of mustard on top.

gottahavashorti · May 2013

For some reason DH loves to tell this story although it's not all that funny:

I made sure DH knew before he got a tungsten ring that it could not be resized and he had to be OK with using a different ring if his finger size ever changed. He insisted it wouldn't.

Two months before our wedding, he dislocated his ring finger. The joint was swollen and he didn't think it was going to ever go back down to the original size, so he got a new ring and just wore the old ring on his right hand even before the wedding since he was convinced it would never be worn as his wedding band.

Sure enough, a couple months after we got married, his new ring was too big. It turned out that, while tipsy at the after party, his best friend had commented on how he liked the old ring and DH gave it to him. I still don't understand why, but it made perfect sense to him at that moment. When the new ring got too big, we couldn't afford a 3rd, but thankfully his best friend was 100% on board with giving back DH's old wedding ring.

LincolnElizabethH · May 2013

My step-dad proposed to my mom after one of his hockey games with a $.25 ring from a gumball machine. He re-proposed a few months later on Christmas morning with a beautiful diamond ring! It was almost 20 years ago now and my mom still has that gumball machine ring in one of her drawers.

misssunshine17 · May 2013

My mom didn't get an engagement ring when they got engaged- didn't have the money. So on their one year, my dad bough mom a diamond and a vacuum cleaner. He put the ring in the vacuum (the bag, I guess) and that's how she got he diamond. He's funny like that.

JennaMichelle88 · May 2013

For my parent's 29th wedding anniversary my parents went and got their rings resized. My mom's got smaller, but they had to cut my dad's off him, then wait until his finger got back to the right size to resize him. He hadn't taken it off in 29 years and his finger had basically grown around it. Then he got lazy and kept forgetting to go back to the jeweler so I think his ring was there for over a year. He kept joking about getting hit on all the time without his ring. I just love that they celebrated their anniversary by cutting my day's ring off.

ravenray · May 2013

My H was supposed to propose with a ring pop. He had a giant blue one so it was like the sapphire that I wanted. However, he got too excited and forgot. So after he proposed with the real ring and we were half way down the mountain (he proposed on the top of a mountain), he remember and pulled it out and gave it too me. It was so cute.

Sassenach1743 · May 2013

For one of my parent's wedding anniversaries my dad bought my mom a much larger version of her original engagement ring (a heart shaped solitaire on a platinum band, probably around 2.5 carats). He hid it in a box of Cracker Jacks (inside the prize packet).

I remember (I was probably 11 or 12) sitting in the living room with them watching a movie... My dad gets a snack (the Cracker Jacks) to share with us. Half way through the box he pulls the prize out and hands it to my mom. She insists (without even looking at it) that she doesn't want the prize (thinking its just another hologram sticker). He finally says "No really, you're gonna want this prize!"

He told us after she finally opened it that he had opened the box with an Exacto-Knife, hidden the ring, then resealed the box and stuck it back in the kitchen pantry! It sat in there for a week and no one touched it! Lol, so silly!

MuppetFan · May 2013

My friend's sister in law was proposed to with this Hello Kitty Ring below. $2500 from Neiman Marcus. She was obsessed with Hello Kitty. It actually was perfect for her. The marriage never took place though, they broke up.

radleyboo · May 2013

When I was about 7 my mom lost the diamond in her engagement ring. My parents searched the house for weeks with a fine-toothed comb, I even remember them getting the carpets cleaned and going through the silt like they were panning for gold. My mom was devastated and eventually gave up the search.

A few months later, the dishwasher broke. My dad is super-frugal and fixed everything on his own, so he went in and took the dishwasher apart to fix it. He found the diamond in the drain screen in the bottom of the dishwasher! They had her ring redesigned and reset into a new ring. It's amazing that he found it, and I'm guessing a hired repairman probably wouldn't have.

As a result, I'm a little panicky about my ring and know that I'll have it checked and reconditioned at least once a year, and it's insured.

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