Three engagement rings?
I was under the impression that an engagement was a one-off thing. Once you're engaged, you're engaged until you (or they) cancel it. Once it's cancelled, I was also under the impression you return the ring to the giver and decide maybe getting married isn't for you.
( Bats, Mon 17 May 2010, 15:45, 2 replies)

Yup, but whining has a strange effect.
No amount of telling her it wasn't the ring that was important, it was the sentiment and what the ring stood for got through her skull, she'd just go in a huff until she got her own way. She did eventually tell me she felt bad for whingeing for new rings and that her first ring should have been more important to her, but by then she was already well into the transformation into a creature from hades.

It might also be worth pointing out that she's 30 and has had 2 huge white weddings.

So far.
( baw__bag contains traces of nuts on, Mon 17 May 2010, 15:59, closed)

It's been said far better than I ever could.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2jAwiq6YsE
(Phaedron Dizzying epiphanies from the bottom of my pint., Mon 17 May 2010, 16:48, closed)

Hahahaha very true :D
However, top norks also had something to do with it.
( baw__bag contains traces of nuts on, Mon 17 May 2010, 17:01, closed)

I've had two engagement rings returned to me
when their respective wearers (some 7 years apart) "decided getting married wasn't for them".

Both of the rings were thrown at me with great force. I've tried engagement twice, I won't be falling into that trap again, oh no.
(WillI'mNot logs in twice a year, every year, Tue 18 May 2010, 11:00, closed)