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’Jewelry engagement & wedding’ – what do these words conjure up? To the bride-to-be ..... expensive presents. ’Jewelry engagement & wedding’ .... first the betrothal and a promise ring, then the engagement and an engagement ring and finally the wedding and the wedding ring. It’s a flurried sequence of events that most people have been through at some stage and sometimes leaves the groom up to his eyeballs in debt. He ends up muttering ’wedding engagement rings’ as a mantra to help him sleep at night.
Jewelry engagements
If he were to judge by newspapers and magazines, the jeweler at the fine jewelry section of the groom’s local department store who appeared shocked that budget should enter the equation when shopping for an engagement ring, and the expectant look in his beloved’s eyes, sometimes it can seem to a young man that his ring appears to be more important than the symbolic gift of his heart. With jewels - necklaces, rings and bracelets – representing the hard-sell side of an engagement, it’s a wonder betrothals aren’t referred to as jewelry engagements instead. But, without jewelry engagements fall a bit flat.
Part of the fun for a young bride-to-be is the excitement of opening a small box, preferably expensively wrapped, hoping that she’s going to be ecstatically pleased by her groom-to-be’s selection from the finest jewelers in town. If she isn’t, she may very well start wondering about the real value of that heart he promised her. So, the young man digs deep into his pocket and overspends, not just once, but three times – a moissanite promise ring, an aquamarine engagement ring to match her eyes and a solitaire diamond wedding ring – until he’s so deep in hock he can’t function during the first few weeks of marriage because he’s worried about money and when he finally mentions it to his beloved, who, he believes, must surely understand him and, after all, they share everything .... she calls him a stingy snake and flounces off to spend the next few days with mother.
At this stage, there is nothing for it but for him to dig once more deep into his pocket, intoning ’wedding engagement rings’ to calm himself, and buy her an expensive and symbolically meaningful gold or silver trinket (perhaps a toe ring or a watch this time from the same jeweler whose children he is single-handedly putting through university) to make up for the carelessness of his, apparently emotionless, heart.
Ah .... love surely is ’jewelry engagement & wedding’.
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