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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It depends upon the reason.

Rings were made up as an emblem in order to sell diamonds by the De Beers Consolidated Mines to make money. I don't put much stock in a ring that was invented as part of a marketing plan to sell more diamonds, yet others do.

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/02/how-an-ad-campaign-invented-the-diamond-engagement-ring/385376/[/quote]

NOPE! Diamonds were pushed and made popular by de Beers when they capitalized on the tradition of diamond engagement rings by royalty. The exchanging of RINGS certainly predates that, just not diamond rings. For example, when Henry VIII married his sister Mary to the king of France in the 1496, a proxy ceremony took place first on English soil, with the exchanging of rings and even a ceremonial bedding happening with a proxy French duke. Henry's fourth wife, Anne of Cleves, had a wedding ring with her motto inscribed: God Send Me Well to Keep. Laura Ingalls Wilder's engagement ring was a garnet set with pearls. Rings have been around for centuries.

The exchanging of rings is an ancient tradition that happened lonnnnngggg before de Beers was established. You are right that they made diamond rings "the standard," but they didn't make RINGS the standard.[/quote]

Yes, but this conversation isn't about wedding bands.
It's about sparkly diamond engagement rings. [/quote]

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