Engagement Ring & The "wedding season"

The "wedding season"- includes those who are getting married this summer and those who are about to propose and get married next summer. For those planning to propose this season there are many desicions to be made- What ring to buy, where, how to choose the perfect diamond, etc... "Four C's" : Cut- diamond cutting, finishing level. Color-color and clarity of the diamond, the whiter, the more expensive Clarity-a "cleaner" stone, is more expensive.

Several additional parameters that affect the price as - Fluorescent: Some stones throw yellow light blue and white it means to be ultra-light particles, and these stones are worth less than it affects 10-30 percent of the price of the diamond. An engagement ring is a ring indicating that the person wearing it is engaged to be married , especially in Western cultures. Neither the engagement nor any other ring is worn during the wedding ceremony, when the wedding ring is put by the groom on the finger of the bride as part of the ceremony, 1 and sometimes by the bride onto the groom's finger.

After the wedding, the engagement ring is usually put back on, and is usually worn on the outside of the wedding ring. In many countries, engagement rings are placed on the ring finger of the left hand. In the second century BC, the Roman bride-to-be was given two rings, a gold one which she wore in public, and one made of iron which she wore at home while attending to household duties.

In later years senators who served as ambassadors were given gold seal rings for official use when abroad. Later the privilege of wearing gold rings was extended to other public officials, then to the knights, later to all freeborn , and finally under Justinian , to freedmen For several centuries it was the custom for Romans to wear iron rings at home, gold rings in public. There is a modern belief that in early colonial New England, where Puritans shunned ornaments and jewels, a thimble substituted for both engagement ring and wedding ring; and some women would remove the tops of the thimble in order to create a ring.

During the Age of Enlightenment both the gimmal rings and posie rings were popular, although the latter was more often used as an expression of sentiment than to indicate a formal engagement. In South Africa, diamonds were first found in 1866, 24 although they were not identified as such until 1867. During the Great Depression of the 1930s, the price of diamonds collapsed.

28 At the same time, market research indicated that engagement rings were going out of style with the younger generation. In the 20th century, if he could afford it, the typical Western groom privately selected and purchased an engagement ring, which he then presented to his desired bride when he proposed marriage. In countries where both partners wear engagement rings, matching rings may be selected and purchased together.

30 In the United States and Canada, where only women traditionally wear engagement rings, women also occasionally present their partners with an engagement gift.