Engagement/wedding Ring

My husband proposed with a plain gold band, which is now my activity ring and we designed a wedding set together. It's a solitaire sapphire, and I love it. Do whatever makes you and FH happiest!

I've seen it both ways! My FH bought my engagement ring with the wedding band. So they go together and I will keep them as my wedding ring. However, I have seen plenty of people get a new ring when they get married. A wedding I went to last weekend, she loved her e-ring but got a totally different ring and band when she got married because it was more her style. It's about what works best for you! You will look at it for many years to come so I'd say it's important that you like/love it!

My FH purchased the ring I wanted; round aquamarine, with a double halo of diamonds and blue diamonds. Recently we have been talking about 'upgrading' this ring to a solitaire round diamond ring. He wants me to have it before our engagement photos in January. I told him I love my ring and there's no reason to change it. He wants me to have a more traditional ring.

I am planning on getting a thin wedding band that has small diamonds that way it matches both. If I do get the other ring, I would wear that with my band and the actual engagement ring on special occasions on my right hand.

Do what makes you happy.

I went with my FH to buy the engagement ring--he was too nervous about getting something I wouldn't like it. But, I have a colleague who recently got engaged, and she just decided to be honest with her FH. She said that she didn't like the ring but she loved the stone. Together, they created a new style for the stone he had bought. Also, one of my best friends just told me that she loves her engagement ring but that it's silver and she plans to wear her grandmother's old wedding band that's gold so she plans to stop wearing the engagement ring after the wedding. Point is, I think you do whatever makes you happy.

My wedding band and engagement ring were purchased separate although I do wear them together now that we are married. If you and your FH want to upgrade for the wedding, go for it. It is completely up to you and you definitely want to be proud of your rings.