I know my parents/grandparents traditionally got their initials and the date engraved on the inside of their rings. Just wondering what folks are doing nowadays! Names, initials, inside jokes, nothing at all? Why or why not?
Posted Mar 1, 2018, 5:07 PM UTC
My engagement ring has “totality” engraved since he proposed during the eclipse.
Our inside joke when I asked what style of ring he wanted, he said ‘a skull ring’. He KNEW that wasn’t happening... on the inside of his ring when we get married will be ‘till [pic of skull] do us part’ this way he gets his skull.
Ok, so this is beyone nerdy, but I think we're going to get "metastable state" engraved in ours. When we started dating, we were spending a Friday night in the library helping me with Materials Science homework around the time we were discussing carbon. So on one slide is a pressure/temperature graph of carbon which shows that carbon shouldn't be diamond at normal earth surface pressure; it is in a metastable state. We had been on this subject for about 3 or 4 hours at that point as for why this is so funny. So he says "I'll love you until diamonds return from their metastable state", we pause and then break into library-volumed laughter, and it's been an inside joke ever since. This was also the day we got kicked out of the college's library because it was almost closing time.
My co-worker and her husband both have "My Bitch" engraved on their bands. It's a bit too much for me personally but she thinks it's hilarious.
We share a term of endearment for each other that's a little saccharine. We both use it for each other so at some point, to differentiate, we starting calling him the tall one, and me the small one. We decided to just do "tall one" and "small one" as less embarrassing short hand.
My engagement ring says Better Together. It's a Jack Johnson song that's kind of "our song." I'm planning to get my wedding band engraved with No Other Way which is another JJ song which speaks to me deeply.
I just said I love you, but I wish I had put something like 'my mr' since I call him that all the time. Mine is too thin to engrave.
My FH and I got our rings designed together (engagement ring and wedding bands) so for the engravings we decided to form a sentence with the 3 rings together (so few words per ring). We like puzzle kinda things so we wanted it to be like if someone else saw one of the rings they'd think "what does this mean?" and it's kind of like our little secret 😊
Probably going for 'Siempre' because we have always said it to each other throughout our relationship... a little cheesy... but why not!
If there there's a time to be cheesy, it's with love on your wedding day. Love it!
Nothing on mine - the bands are too thin. I also didn't really think of it lol.
I’m getting his initials and the date and he’s getting my initials and they date. So mine will have “AKWM 20.02.19” in my culture it’s super common to get your rings engraved, everyone does it, even in my generation.
It is also very common in my country. Mine has [his first name]&[my first name] 4.8.2018, his have the other way around (my name and then his name).
We bought our rings together. Matching tungsten rings. Mine is 4mm in width, his is 8mm.
The inside of mine is engraved with his fingerprint, the inside of his is engraved with my fingerprint.
I usually wear my ring with the engraving in the palm of my hand and it has worn that space smooth and shiny.
Both our engagement rings (yes he has an engagement band too! ) have our names and the date of our engagement party/official engagement day
I doubt FH will have anything engraved inside my ring; because of how my e-ring is shaped, only a certain kind of band will go with it, and it'll be too thin for much of an engraving.
I might do "to FH, love librarylackey, 9.1.18" but I can't decide! What are you thinking?
We're buying them together, not for each other (whoops), so I'm currently just thinking our first initials and the date, but was trying to figure out if there's something more clever I can fit on it!
Yeah, in theory I'd also like to do something clever, but I'm sort of naturally long-winded so have a hard time coming up with anything so succinct it'll fit on a ring, haha. I hope you find something that works for you!
Hi date twin! Exact same situation with me, my band won't really work for an engraving but I plan to engrave his. I've been trying to think of something unique to us to use, but I do like what you came up with! I love that formatting for the date! That's what I used on our STDs :)
Hey date twin! It's so hard to think of something unique- but I hope in any case you come up with something you like!
We're both exactly six months out, btw- hope everything is going well for you :)
I hope you come to a decision too! Yes exactly six months from today eeeeeeek! Things are going pretty smoothly, but it's going to be here before we know it! I hope your planning is going well too :)
I got an inside joke engraved on my (groom) band, just a series of six letters that are an abbreviation of a sentence; wanted to do it on wife's ring as well, but it's too thin. We've been meaning to have her e-ring engraved, but it's an heirloom rock and I hate letting that thing out of our sight!
Was playing around with the same idea--initials from a phrase. How thick is your ring? Do you like the look of it?
Oh shoot, sorry, I should have specified, it's on the inside of my ring. So no one, including myself, really ever sees it, but I like the idea of it being there. The ring isn't wide at all, I think just a little over 1/8".
Haha no I followed you, just wondering if you liked the way it turned out--definitely envisioning inside of the band engraving. Thanks for sharing!
My wedding ring is too thin to engrave, but my engagement ring has “The Day I Knew” engraved in it. It’s because when we were engaged he told me about the day he knew he wanted me to be his wife.
that's beautiful
At some point we started having this exchange every time one of us says I love you so much.
"I love you so much." "How much?" "So much."
I'm going to have "How much? So much." engraved in his wedding band as a surprise.
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Super cheese but somewhere along the way we went from love you forever.. To forever and ever and always.. To forever and ever and always plus 14 days.
So I put '...plus 14 days' on his as a surprise.
That's ADORABLE.