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My best friend's boyfriend (She's 21 like me, he's 23) gave her a silver ring that he called a "promise ring". They're not engaged yet, but want to get married a few years down the road.

 

I've never heard of a promise ring. Is it sort of like a pre-engagement ring? Please explain!

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I found this online. It is the ring before the engagment ring. It means...

 

A promise to love. A promise to cherish. A promise of friendship. A promise of loyalty. A promise of hope for a future together that is without end.

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A promise ring is geared towards the teenage public upon the diamond industry.

 

It's a real diamond, very small; a *chip* with a gold/siler/platinum band.

 

It signifies *going steady* amongst the world of teens mainly.

 

Sometimes it's just given as a gift. It's not an engagement since there is no wedding date set or plan to be married soon.

 

I never understood the term "pre-engagement" exactly. Though I do know my fiance pulled that on me after two years of dating when he wanted to use that as a way to string me along to avoid the responsiblity of getting engaged to be married. After a few weeks, I stopped wearing it. Too many people laughed, especially men, and I thought it was a fake and unrealistic tradition. Being I was about 22-23 when I recieved the ring, I thought it was just a bit sophomoric. However, I am engaged now, with a ring, and getting married on June 17th, 2006. :)

 

When I was in high school and my early years of college, I knew a few girls who got "pre-engaged" and recieved a promise ring. I thought it was stupid then! Some guys would give their high school girlfriends a promise ring before prom night because they wanted to look like they were serious about marrying their gf's one day so they could get laid :D

The other girls I knew broke up with the "pre-fiance's" and kept the "pre-ring" and got married years later to someone who committed to a real engagement; a promise of marriage to soon come.

 

Besides, what does pre-engagement mean in any context? The "term" itself makes no sense. Engagement is a waiting period! So what does "pre-engagement" mean??? The "waiting period before the waiting period" :confused: ??? Makes no sense. If you want to get married, just get engaged and make the engagement two years (maximum). Otherwise, use the option of getting her a nice necklace/bracelet/earings to show your current caring for her.

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My boyfriend gave me a promise ring (I'm 20 and he's 23). And I don't think it's stupid, I think it's sweet. Neither one of us is ready to be thinking about engagments or marriage, but a promise ring is exactly what agnf666 said:

 

"A promise to love. A promise to cherish. A promise of friendship. A promise of loyalty. A promise of hope for a future together that is without end."

 

It goes on my left hand, like a an engagment ring and it's a sign that I'm "taken" so to speak. Also the ring finger on the left hand is tied to the heart. It's just a promise to each other that one day in the future we'll start planning ours together, but not thinking about marriage, because that's a big step. So this is a little step, before the big step ;)

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My highschool boyfriend gave me his Initial ring, and called it a promise ring. I laughed at him (yeah i was immature) and told him that yeah in the 50's it was the thing to give a girl YOUR ring, but nowadays (talkin 80's here) a promise ring is a DIAMOND ring lol. goofball!

 

He did cough one up a couple years later.

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