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Post by Deleted on Oct 31, 2014 4:00:03 GMT
What did you do with your wedding ring(s)? Mine contains diamonds from my grandmother's 50th anniversary ring so I'm quite tied to it. I'm thinking I'll save it for one of my girls. Just curious what you did with your ring.
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Post by vronn on Oct 31, 2014 4:24:20 GMT
I put them in my mom and dad safe. My rings weren't an expensive set, but I thought one of my daughters might want them one day. I'm not so sure though if they will, so I've been thinking of selling them.
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Post by irisheyes on Oct 31, 2014 4:27:01 GMT
I gave my diamond to one of my daughters to use in her engagement ring.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 31, 2014 4:34:17 GMT
You can have the stones removed and a new setting made so it isn't a wedding ring any more. My ex's second wife is wearing mine.
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Post by NoWomanNoCry on Oct 31, 2014 4:47:39 GMT
You can have the stones removed and a new setting made so it isn't a wedding ring any more. My ex's second wife is wearing mine. Does she know its was yours first? |
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Post by tincin on Oct 31, 2014 4:50:21 GMT
I designed and paid for mine and I occasionally wore in on my right handle until it was stolen. Now I just miss it because one of the stones was from my Mother's wedding ring.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 31, 2014 4:57:10 GMT
You can have the stones removed and a new setting made so it isn't a wedding ring any more. My ex's second wife is wearing mine. Does she know its was yours first? Nope! |
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Post by marianne on Oct 31, 2014 4:59:19 GMT
My engagement ring sits in my jewelry box but I had my wedding ring engraved with the beginning and end marriage dates and put it on my charm bracelet as another significant event in my life.
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Post by rainangel on Oct 31, 2014 7:05:35 GMT
I am saving my weddingring and the locket my ex-husband gave me as a weddinggift for my daughters. When they are a bit older, one of them will get the locket, and one will get the ring. The ring is a plain goldband, so it would be easy for her to make it into something different.
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Post by KelleeM on Oct 31, 2014 9:27:15 GMT
My engagement ring was a sapphire with tiny diamonds around it. I picked it out and loved it. It was a very inexpensive ring. I had a pretty gold band and for our first Christmas my ex got me a very thing diamond and sapphire band I picked out. I wore the three rings together. When my 24 year old dd was visiting me in June I gave them to her. She doesn't like yellow gold but I suggested she get them plated. She seemed to think she'd wear them some day.
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Post by J u l e e on Oct 31, 2014 11:40:23 GMT
I sold mine to the jeweler when I was getting remarried. I was getting my new ring made and he deducted the value of my old ring off the price of my new one. I didn't have children from my first marriage and didn't want the old diamond at all.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 31, 2014 12:03:48 GMT
I ended up selling mine. I needed some cash. Work had cut my hours. My ex would not give me anything for all the times I had helped him out. I was pissed at him and no longer felt like I needed to hold on to it for the boys so I sold it. I don't regret it. I'd rather pass on jewelry that comes from a healthy relationship than a shitty one. I also sold the engagement ring I got from a previous engagement. He moved out of town and we weren't in touch anymore. He said it didn't want it back so I sold it. The only jewelry I have now is from DH or my parents.
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Post by anxiousmom on Oct 31, 2014 12:06:55 GMT
I have boys, so I assumed they wouldn't want the rings, so I had my engagement ring made into another ring that I could wear. I had the stone from original engagement ring, the stone from the upgrade, and a pair of diamond earrings that my grandparents bought me made into a sort of asymmetrical design and wear it all the time.
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Post by jeremysgirl on Oct 31, 2014 12:18:31 GMT
I ended up tossing mine in a lake. I was really angry that day. I really regret not saving them for my DD. They weren't anything impressive, but they were a gift from her dad to me so I feel like I should have given them to her.
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Post by wanda on Oct 31, 2014 12:32:52 GMT
I sold mine, neither children wanted it. That with some other jewellery bought by ex helped pay for some Christmas gifts for grandchildren last year. Glad to be rid of it, to be honest. And the mark it left on my finger after over 30 years of marriage has gone too, thankfully. |
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Post by roundtwo on Oct 31, 2014 12:51:57 GMT
Does she know its was yours first? Nope! Awesome!!!  Mine were inexpensive rings - we were poor university students - but I liked them. The now ex said he would give me a special ring for our 25th anniversary. Well, he gave himself a girlfriend instead and I sold the rings for scrap gold. Made a whopping $63.  |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 31, 2014 13:04:17 GMT
A friend of mine took them to a jeweler who in turn melted the gold down and together they designed a pretty flourishy looking pendent and set the diamond in one of the scrolls. It's a beautiful piece and she wears it often and gets many compliments as it is truly unique.
I've said if I were to ever find myself in that situation, I would do the same.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 31, 2014 13:07:53 GMT
Nothing yet - but just the other day I was going through my jewelry looking for something and my (adult) daughter saw the diamond wedding band I used to wear and said, "Mom, when you die I'd like that ring. I always remember you wearing it when I was growing up."
Never even occurred to me, and now I'm glad I didn't sell it.
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Post by eebud on Oct 31, 2014 14:00:14 GMT
I'm not divorced but my parents divorced when I was a kid. My mom had a solitaire engagement ring. She also had a watch my dad gave her that was surrounded by diamonds and these two pieces that came off of either side with a lot of tiny diamonds. She took her engagement ring and the the jeweler took all of the tiny diamonds out of the two side pieces and she traded those for 4 little larger diamonds. She had a beautiful cocktail ring made out of it. She gave the ring to me (I am the only girl) many years ago. I still wear it and I get a lot of compliments off of it. She later had the two side pieces of the watch removed and had a new band put on it and gave it to me.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 31, 2014 15:11:43 GMT
I had mine made into a delicate ring (not for the ring-finger) and into a necklace, but I will pass it down to my children.
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Post by hollymolly on Oct 31, 2014 15:41:00 GMT
I didn't have an engagement ring, but I was left with both of our wedding bands and I had a 3-stone anniversary ring. I had the diamonds from the anniversary ring made into a solitaire necklace and earrings, and used the gold from the bands to off-set the cost of the settings. I wear them every day and it absolutely does not remind me of my ex or our marriage as I feared it would.
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Post by PEArfect on Oct 31, 2014 15:47:55 GMT
I'm widowed, but my ring is currently being altered. I'm having my diamond solitaire put into a heart pendant. The rest of the ring will remain the same. I wanted to be able to wear part of my ring in some way. Wearing it as it is was to painful. My daughters loved the idea. A heart pendant just seemed fitting. He'll always have a piece of my heart.
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Post by anxiousmom on Oct 31, 2014 15:50:07 GMT
I'm widowed, but my ring is currently being altered. I'm having my diamond solitaire put into a heart pendant. The rest of the ring will remain the same. I wanted to be able to wear part of my ring in some way. Wearing it as it is was to painful. My daughters loved the idea. A heart pendant just seemed fitting. He'll always have a piece of my heart. I think the heart pendant is so sweet...you have had a rough time, and it is a lovely token of y'all's life together.  |
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Post by PEArfect on Oct 31, 2014 15:56:09 GMT
I'm widowed, but my ring is currently being altered. I'm having my diamond solitaire put into a heart pendant. The rest of the ring will remain the same. I wanted to be able to wear part of my ring in some way. Wearing it as it is was to painful. My daughters loved the idea. A heart pendant just seemed fitting. He'll always have a piece of my heart. I think the heart pendant is so sweet...you have had a rough time, and it is a lovely token of y'all's life together. Thanks, I can't wait to start wearing my 'ring' again. |
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Post by Anne-Marie on Oct 31, 2014 17:00:22 GMT
I have my rings and my ex-husband's rings and am saving them for our daughter. She is 9 now and was 3 when we divorced.
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Post by peasandthanku on Oct 31, 2014 17:45:13 GMT
My wedding ring is in the bottom of the ocean  But my engagement ring is sitting in my jewelry box for my daughter one day. |
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Post by georgiapea on Oct 31, 2014 18:35:24 GMT
I was in such a snit I traded it for a piece of gaudy turquoise jewelry.
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Post by birukitty on Oct 31, 2014 19:44:46 GMT
Well the plain gold wedding band-that one I cut in half (can't remember how I did it with some kind of tool-it must have been thin and cheap) and sent back to him! Bastard cheated on me for 3 years with his secretary. The tiny diamond engagement ring (no heirloom diamonds, he'd bought it at the PX) I traded in at the jewelry store for something nicer I wanted years later.
Debbie in MD.
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Post by phoenixcov on Oct 31, 2014 20:50:00 GMT
I have been divorced and widowed.
First set of rings were stolen in a burglary and the
set from late husband are tied with ribbon on a scrapbook page.
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Post by MizIndependent on Oct 31, 2014 21:01:03 GMT
Couldn't bear to keep it. At all. So I threw it into the ocean waves. This is where I left it:   |
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