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My husband choose mine,I had No Idea at all, It was very romantic! and the ring Is beautiful,I would have choose the very same ring:-)

My first engagement ring was stunning - a six point star with a diamond in each point and a larger one in the centre. It cost a fortune. We chose it together. I sold it after the engagement ended. The second was an average ring from an average sort of bloke and I can't think why I ever got engaged to him in the first place! My third engagement ring, you need a magnifying glass to see the diamond but it was bought with every penny he had. We chose it together and made a special trip to London to buy it - and celebrated afterwards with a coffee in the Euston station buffet! The gold band is wearing very thin now, I've hardly ever had it off my finger since that day nearly 35 years ago. It means so much to me, as does the man that bought it - my husband. Mags xx

I picked mine and loved it also picked my eternity ring but can't get it on the now....eczema has swollen 3 fingers :-( I had my wedding ring made out of a pieces of old gold from mum, dad, gran, deceased gran & new hubby......had the jewller melt it all down and make me a unique ring..........and I love it.....the only prob was after the wedding I couldn't get the engagement ring to sit properly on my finger as it was an odd shape and didn't sit well with new wedding ring and I couldn't bare not having the one hubby proposed with and knew that if I bought another I'd never like it coz it wasn't my original.......so I had my old one remade by the jeweller into a rub over flush ring that sits snuggly with my wedding ring and when my fingers are less swollen then my eternity ring also :-))) RDA.x.

We went and looked for one together 41 years ago ,cost £15, one diamond never been off my finger other than when my wedding ring was put on , i wear it also with my mums engaement ring of which i had after she sadly died 5 years ago. Margaret xx

I got mine with hubby from a Pawn Shop in the East End. It cost £28 and that was about 3 weeks wages for him at that time. I had it valued recently for the insurance and they told me to add it as £1200. In fact this was my second engagement ring. I was engaged previously and I have to say I LOVED my first ring but hubby demanded I flogged it - it was beautiful a very oval diamond with no hard faces on it. It reminded me of a drop of rain in the centre of a leaf - know what I mean? My second one has three stones and I rarely wear it as I lost it once and having had nightmares and turned the house up side down, I rang various shops I had been to the previous day. When I rang Woolworths they said, can you hold. I thought why are they torturing me, theres no way anyone would have found it and handed it BUT the manager had seen in as he locked up the shop and it was so small (I have tiny hands, completely out of synch with the rest of my body) they thought it was a childs pretend ring! I still couldnt believe it would be mine, so I rushed to the shop and when they gave it me and I put it on my engagement finger they were amazed! What luck, eh???

Damn right I did! He had preciously presented me with a ring as a surprise and although I have tried really hard, he knows I don't really like it...so better to play safe eh.

Sorry. I abandoned you. Mine was chosen by a young lady in Cheltenham. We had already decided to marry but hadn't discussed a ring. OH asked the shop assistant which one she would like, .... and that's what he bought. The handover wasn't at all romantic either but he's been a great support throughout our 34 plus years together, so I'll forgive him. Gwyn

My husband bought my ring as a romantic surprise when he proposed. He had no idea whether I would say yes or not. Incidentally, I have 3 of my various great grandmother's engagement rings also. Not too many girls in my family so I was lucky enough to get them. Rose

We choose it together in 1969. My boyfriend-at-the-time had just finished working in the UK and since he had not worked for a full year, he got a tax rebate. He used the money buy the ring - a solitaire! It's too small now. Jeweller advised against making it bigger - too much work for what it was worth, so OH surprised me with a superb eternity ring for our 33rd wedding anniversary! Margaret

hi i have an antique engagement ring with a sad story ,when i was first going out with husband his nan was really ill but was adament that my husband give me this ring when we got engaged (i didnt know at the time) which we did, two days later she died.since have found out its a couple of hundred yrs old passed down in the family ,its a burmese ruby quite rare im told lol,too scared to wear it now lol .that was twenty yrs ago. karen

O.H. choose mine as i was in hospital when he asked to me to get engaged............i loved the ring ~couldn`t believe that he had such good taste...lol. R.B.

Yes although got it a little back ways on! OH took me to Gretna Green for the day got down on one knee in front of all the tourists and proposed! After accepting his proposal he said ''one more question'' I said ''yes?'' he replied '' now will you help me up please?''. We had a good laugh about that all the tourists applauded and took photos. Next day we went to buy the ring then he took me back and got down on one knee and asked again placing it on my finger...what a romantic! I'm so lucky! P.S. We got married two months later guess where :)