Engaged without a ring

If you’re engaged I’d just start announcing it and letting close friends and family know! It’s about the commitment, not the bling!

If one person asks the other to marry, and that person says yes, you are engaged.

You can start by informing immediate family and use word of mouth, email, text etc from there. Use whatever method you normally communicate with people.

Agreed with PP. You would do the same thing as those with a ring, just no ring pics for social media.

A ring doesn't make you engaged, agreeing to get married does.

I was engaged without a ring. I just told people I was engaged, most of them didn't even ask about the ring.

We never had engagement rings; neither of us wanted one. We announced it the same way everyone does--told family and close friends in person or by phone first, then changed our Facebook status.

Yep! Engaged 9/2017 and didn't have a ring until 3/2018. He was going to propose, but hadn't come up with a "plan". He ended up proposing one night because he just "couldn't wait". We're not big on announcing everything we do on FB, since we communicate other ways with our friends and family. We just called, texted or emailed those close to us. I actually didn't even think to change my FB status until last week.

I was engaged for a while without a ring. We just told people about the commitment being made to each other. I got my ring about a year after we got engaged, just due to finances and me being picky about things.

Yup, we set our date end of Nov 2017. We only told a few people that are closest to us. FH got my ring and did the down on one knee on March 2, 2018. After that we made the official announcement to everyone.

We didn’t have a ring at all. He asked my parents’ blessing at Christmas and once that was done we started planning. When we had a date people didn’t worry about it. Only a few people asked about my ring. I wore one I had bought a few years before in that hand just to get used to wearing a ring. Be prepared that people might not take you seriously until you set a date, but I’m older with older parents so it may have been just them- they needed some tangible thing like being asked their blessing and a date to believe hubby was serious about getting married since there wasn’t a ring. I didn’t get a proposal either. And we’re on our honeymoon right now so it worked lol!

When we first got engaged, there was no ring involved. It was several months later when we finally had the time to go shopping. Yes, once you say yes, you are engaged. If people ask why you have no ring, tho really not their business, tell them you are waiting until you find "the one"

I was also engaged without a ring b/c I didn't want one. My husband and I were both graduate students through our engagement and working part time, so it didn't make sense financially. Plus, as an ardent feminist, I dislike some of the symbolism associated with an engagement ring. Of course, now I wear my husband's grandmothers wedding ring, which she had a diamond ring soddered on it later, so now I wear an engagement ring. Although his grandparents were too poor to get an engagement ring as well. We merely told people, announced it on FB, and if someone asked about my lack of ring, we explained our reasons. We were only engaged 8 months, so we set the date right away and got married. Strangers on the street didn't know I was engaged, but that didn't matter much to me.

We were engaged when he asked at the end of September 2017. No one asked about the ring, they just said congratulations. We told people in person before booking the venue in February, but I waited til the venue was booked before changing my Facebook status. Two weeks after we booked the venue, I got my ring and just had fun posting again